devotions

For the Christian who is still stuck in shame from your past: How to Change Your Story

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This is the first post in a series about getting unstuck from shame and changing your story. Randomly scrolling through Facebook, I paused at this post: “I’ve been a Christian for a while but I’m still deeply ashamed about my past. I feel stuck and useless.” Although I rarely comment on stranger’s posts, I felt […]

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Practical Compassion: How everyday compassion makes us more like Jesus + Tips

Curious Faith & Personal Growth, Who is Jesus? /

My cousin, Sarah, saw my apprehension and made a promise: “I’ll stand here and watch him the whole time,” she said, “I won’t take my eyes off him.” We were standing over the small form of my 22-month-old son, Luke, who lay unconscious in a hospital bed in the pediatric intensive care unit. A fat

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Path, Fence or Fortress: How to Stop Toxic People from Destroying the Peace of Your Home

Home & Family /

This is part 2 on How to Make Your Home into Your Dream Sanctuary. To read part 1, click here. In my last post on making our homes into our sanctuary, we discussed how our attitudes affect our home and what we can do about it, as well as how to create a welcoming environment,

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Why is it so hard to pray? 4 things I wish I had known about prayer years ago

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Hi! If this post inspires you, would you consider sharing it on Pinterest or Facebook? Thanks! Let my prayer be set before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Psalm 141:2 NKJV A boy, head down, muscles taut, legs spotted with bruises, pulling a red wagon through the yard.

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Jesus’s Relationship Formula: Transform Your Marriage and Relationships

Home & Family, Who is Jesus? /

I love self-help books. When relationships are going off the rails, then you’ll find me at the library digging through the 742 stacks (that’s Dewey Decimal system for the self-help relationship books). If you were hiding behind my couch, spying on me as I pored over the pages, you’d see me nodding and “ah”-ing and

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Tables into Altars: How to Bless Others with Food (because you’re cooking anyway)…

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Have you ever sat around the table for hours after dinner, talking about everything and nothing, laughing together as the minutes speed by? When people peeled away to go to bed, slipped off to wash dishes, or shuffled to cars, their hearts were singing. Fulfilled, content, and joyful. This was community at its best. At

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Feel inadequate as a Christian? Pull up a seat at your Father’s table…

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I thought life was a dance, but I was just twirling on thin ice. People thought I was a strong Christian, and I agreed. Appearances can be deceiving, can’t they? The evidence pointed toward a woman who had it together: A woman who planned a mission trip to Ghana with her mom, taught Sunday School,

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