The Road Together
The journey is wrought with unexpected moments, doubt, and celebration. Together we can find joy in the surprises, peace in the pain, and growth in the adversity. May we hold space for big ideas and small wonderings, take leaps of faith where doubt would seek to prevail, and fall on our knees in humility as the Spirit leads.
The Wait
The last two years, like for so many, have been some of the most heartbreaking and painful. I had reached a point in my life, just before quarantine began, where I resigned myself to the fact I would never be allowed to do ministry in the way God had put in my bones to do. I was tired of the abuse, tired of being lied about, tired of being seen as a threat to the kingdom.
The Redemption Plan: Returning to God’s Original Intent for Man and Woman
In this message we take a look back at God’s original intent for man and woman, the consequences of sin, and the path Jesus paved for us to return to God’s original intent for man and woman.
So You Say Your Pro-Life
I am sharing what I believe it means to be Pro-Life and how my position on the issue has changed. I've spent time researching, praying, and listening. I definitely land differently on this issue that I did a few years ago and still have so much to learn. What will your response be?
How Are We Choosing to Live Our Lives?
Over the last few years I have been wrestling with the idea of doctrine. What does it mean? In what areas of my life do I live by a certain doctrine? Is the doctrine I live by right or wrong?
Satisfied
Days are…well lots of words I shouldn’t write here. I feel unsatisfied and hungry for something richer and sweeter. Is there something we have chosen to fill our lives with that is leaving us wanting? Have we made wrong choices believing some false narrative or ideology? Are we simply choosing the lesser of two evils that leaves us unsatisfied and hungry in the depths of our souls?
God Have Mercy
At this moment in our culture we have been given an opportunity to demonstrate His lavish love and lead in true reconciliation, and we are missing it. We, who have been given the greatest gift of love and reconciliation, spend more time defending what we think than we do on our faces in prayer and in His Word.
Thy Kingdom Come
This Sunday my heart was full of anxiety. I am heavy as I have heard the groans and laments of my brothers and sisters, neighbors, and friends of color. My sorrow had only groans to add to those that I love and do life with. So as the rain began to fall here in my neighborhood I grabbed my tennis shoes, quickly laced them up, and set out to walk. As I walked praying and lamenting, searching and seeking for answers, I asked God for wisdom. “How do I, one person, even begin to be an agent of his work of restoration?
The Great Hope
Yesterday hope was disappointed. The hope we had was wounded. Hoping seems, well hopeless. What should we even hope for at this point? It seems futile to even think about making plans of any kind. We want to hold onto hope, but it feels like a prickly rope that is stripping the skin from our hands as we fight for it in an exhausting battle of tug of war. It hurts.
The Missing Messiah
Maybe you are like me this season, standing in a place and something seems missing. Maybe you just cannot put your finger on it. Maybe you know exactly what is missing, a loved one, a relationship, a hope or dream. Whatever place you find yourself in I invite you to pause and remember who the Messiah has been, is, and will always be.
Mercy Triumphs Over Judgement
Yes, you have wounded me for over two decades of my life, but I have also wounded many over the last 39 years of my life. I have sinned and am in constant desperate need of forgiveness, so how can I, who has been given much, not in turn offer much.
The Business of the Church
God is not glorified by our nationalism. God is not glorified when we attack another for expressing what they believe. God is not glorified when our political opinions wound those around us and cause dissension. God is not glorified when we see rampant racism in our country and say “I did not do that”, “That’s not my fault”, or anything other than “I am sorry” and begin to work toward awareness and reconciliation.
When the Storm is a Storm
Today, however, I want to talk about when the storm is a storm. There are storms in all of our lives. Storms that rock us, seemingly drowned us, swallow us, and block out the beauty, hope, and joy that the Light, who is Christ, gives.
Winds of Change
I pray for a fresh wind of the Holy Spirit in my life...a refreshing, cleansing, life giving breath of the Holy Spirit. However, when those winds are stronger and pushing against my stubbornness, bowing me over, I have this tendency to view it as a storm and not the Lord answering my cry for healing and life through the cleansing life giving wind and rain.
Purity for the Modern Woman
What does Purity mean for me, not as a wife and mom, but what does purity look like for me...for my soul. Well, let me tell you what purity is not. Purity is not abstaining, purity is not avoidance, purity is not trying to do better and be better. It can't be those things. If I want to be pure, truly, really, "without" as Webster's defines it, I can't do it, not on any level. It's false, humanistic, and driven by my own abilities.
Pornography: the Lie that Binds
Pornography is pervasive in our culture, every where we turn. Whether it's soft or hard core. Whether it's on prime time television or on adult channels or surfing the internet. Whether it's on display in advertisements that lay before our eyes at every beck and turn. Whether it's fantasy or reality it's everywhere.
A Night in Silent Wait
Tonight we sit in silent wait
For a Baby that ‘twas born to save.
A Savior born in manger lay
Emmanuel 'tis His Name.
Have We Missed the Call?
Like many of you it’s a verse we hear constantly in the church, and something we faithfully pray for. Laborers…other people to rise up and go into the fields while we sit in our tidy little homes in our tidy little community busy keeping things tidy. I missed it…completely MISSED IT!!!! I don’t know how…well sure I do. I like things the way I like things and it’s difficult to do anything that would change the way the things I like are done.