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Faith

You Are a Missionary

March 28, 2017

Tweet Growing up, the term missionary was reserved for a group of people who left the comforts of America to go serve a foreign people group. I believe God calls people to serve in remote parts of the world and missionary is a very accurate term for them. As a church, we should support and pray for them and continue to send people around the world to serve. But this Sunday, the pastor at my church asked us to consider the fact we were indeed all missionaries. If Jesus is Lord of your life, you are part of the mission of God. You are a missionary. Over and over in…

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Love-Colored Glasses

February 26, 2017

Tweet The other day I saw a post on Facebook complaining about how awful the city I live in is and several people agreed with the comment. According to the post, it’s a violent, drug-ridden town and you should be afraid to leave your house. Now, I will give you for instance, that our city has been on several top 10 lists for worst place to live, fattest city, most unhappy etc. While I am not entirely sure where this data comes from and am sure not everyone in my city is the nicest person you will ever meet, these lists and the above Facebook post are poor representations of…

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We Have Given Up

February 13, 2017

Tweet Dear American Evangelical, It seems we have given up. A quick perusal of social media makes this point painstakingly obvious to some, but perhaps you are still not convinced. For a minute, just consider what giving up might look like to others. We have given up our missional calling for political pursuits. We have given up being pro-neighbor to be pro-life. We have given up the calling of the church for the calling of the state. We have given up Christian first for Republican first. We have given up the simplicity of the gospel for the complexity of dos and do nots. We have given up kindness for rightness.…

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Scandalous and Scornful

January 25, 2017

Tweet Scandalous. Scornful. Unusual. And no, I am not talking about any current political or celebrity figure. The book of Matthew and thus the New Testament begins with a genealogy. You know, the ever long passages of scripture going “so-and-so begat so-and-so.” The passages we are tempted to ignore, skim over, or skip past to get to the meaningful text. The verses we can use to support our stance or encourage or admonish. Who cares about a long list of someone’s family tree. The thing is, you can learn a lot about a person by exploring their ancestry. You can find out a lot about someone by knowing where…

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Trash Your Ideal Self

January 23, 2017

Tweet A few days ago, I sent a group of friends a picture of part of my kitchen. I have included it for full-disclosure. I would like to write a long post about how this was a rare sight and normally my kitchen is perfect, clean, and could be found on Pinterest, but far more often, the picture is the reality. I imagine, for a lot of you, your day-to-day reality may look similar to my kitchen. Perhaps it’s a different room in your house or perhaps it’s a part of your soul that feels messy and disorganized. It’s a part of your life you will never find on social…

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Independent. Multi-Tasker.

December 27, 2016

Tweet This was the description of women summed up by an author in a book I was listening to the other day. She polled a bunch of women and the theme which emerged was independent, multi-tasker. In other words, women think they can do it all and they can do it all alone. Talk about feeling hit by a ton of bricks. I could totally relate. I feel the exact same way. All.the.time. Although I might replace the word can with the word should. I should do it all and I should do it alone. Isn’t that the message our culture sends? Be the perfect wife, mom, employee, church attendee…

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One Christian’s Response to the 2016 Election

September 1, 2016

Tweet Ya’ll, listen. If you haven’t noticed, there is this tiny little political election happening this year. I am not sure how you could have missed it. I don’t watch TV, but social media is rife with articles, posts, opinions, and every other type of political fanfare you can imagine. I normally try to shy away from all things political, but today I hit a breaking point. Someone on my FB feed posted an article about Trump with a line about how could you not support him after reading this article. Curious by nature and still slightly in shock at the candidates we have to choose from, I clicked on…

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Dead Begin to Rise

July 27, 2016

Tweet When you walk into the room Sickness starts to vanish Every hopeless situation ceases to exist And when you walk into the room, The dead begin to rise ‘Cause there is resurrection life In all You do Sunday morning as we sang the lyrics to the song above, they hit me in a way they never have before. The last three lines rang in my head for the rest of the day. I could not shake the thought of how different things would be if we actually lived like we believed the words of this song. As a believer, we don’t often question the cross and the…

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Savoring Slow

July 22, 2016

Tweet For much of my life, I have been a morning person. Prior to getting married, I was up and at the gym between 4:30 and 5 every morning. I love the peace and calm of the morning. I maintained my early mornings after getting married for a while, but slowly the early morning gym workouts fell by the wayside. Add a baby into the mix and my mornings became “how late can I sleep and still get to work on time.” They were chaotic, rushed, and anything but peaceful and quiet. I was barely able to get to work on time and struggling. Majorly struggling. Something had…

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The Dark Side of Social Media

July 5, 2016

Tweet For all I love about social media, there is a side a loathe. The side which often rears its ugly head after holidays or vacation days or even some ordinary weekends. Honestly, it’s not actually an issue with social media, but more the way it brings out the dark side in me that I hate. This morning as I was scrolling through my Instagram, I realized how quickly my internal emotions shifted to anger, jealously, and disappointment. It happened in a moment and when I realized it, I quickly set my phone down like it was on fire. This has to stop. I needed to re-direct before I spent…

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