One Saturday, eight years ago, I sat in our screened in porch of our three- bedroom ranch, questioning my faith, for the first time. “Is this whole Christian thing working for me?” I was thirty-one years old. I had been a Christian since I was a teenager, and I believed the Bible, but was it […]
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Dear Brave Soul, On behalf of the church as a fellow Believer, I just wanted to reach out and say I’m sorry. Your pain and grief is seen and I’m sorry we didn’t allow space and time for you to grieve your loss. And I’m even more sorry we fill the uncomfortable silence with Christian clichés. You are
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By Crystal Storms “If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:11b (NIV) Have you ever looked back at an accomplishment and thought only
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By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds drop the dew. Proverbs 3:19-20 A heap of laundry a waits in the mudroom, along with the unmade beds and piles of paperwork that need my attention. There are
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