Just the Next Step

Keep your head down and attack. That’s a principal I employ when I’m facing the daunting task of running hills.  The theory is that we’re easily defeated by the looming mountain ahead of us but it becomes much more manageable if we just tackle it step by step.  Focusing on this concept is the only […]

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Why So Much About Me?

“I am only His instrument– why so much about me — when the work is all His.  I hold no claim to it.  It was given to me…”  Mother Teresa Come Be My Light Perhaps we need to ask ourselves this every day. What are you clinging to too tightly? Where are you misappropriating your […]

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It’s Time to Change the Game

I was recently writing about the sin of comparison and how much destruction it does to our hearts. Of course I’ve compared nearly everything about me to someone else at some point in my life, but it seems that our greatest catalyst for comparison these days is social media. Social media has taken our comparison […]

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It's Time to Change the Game

I was recently writing about the sin of comparison and how much destruction it does to our hearts. Of course I’ve compared nearly everything about me to someone else at some point in my life, but it seems that our greatest catalyst for comparison these days is social media. Social media has taken our comparison […]

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A Year of Biblical Womanhood

THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED: Congrats to April who was the winner! —————————————————————- I have to say, that I was really looking forward to reading Rachel Held Evans new book.  Rachel is a thought leader who is stretching the discussions of our faith.  I was particularly intrigued by what her perspective would be on the issue […]

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Made to Serve

“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.” I Peter 4:10 NIV We know that leadership starts with being a servant.  If you’ve been given the gift of leadership, you have received it in order to serve others with that […]

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Inciting Incidents

This week I finished an unusual yet captivating book called Inciting Incidents: 6 Stories of Fighting Disappointment in a Flawed World. Each author found a way of digging beneath my casual engagement and compelling me to confront the emotions of disillusionment, isolation, loss and hope that they so artfully shared. This book was raw, beautiful […]

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Such A Mess

Community is Messy. If you’re in a small group, have led a small group or are a church leader who helps facilitate small groups, you understand this phrase. So does my friend Heather Zempel.  She knows that community is messy but she also knows that community is life-changing and worth every ounce of mess it […]

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