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To Be Fully Known and Fully Loved

“Deep down, our root desire is really about longing for the experience of real love, that somebody would know us totally and at the same time love us completely.” – Jared C. Wilson

Flashback Friday – Depression: 10 Ways to Help Someone You Love

As someone who has personally struggled with depression and tried to minister to loved ones in the thick of it, I have experienced how difficult it can be to know what to do or what will help. It can be easy to throw up your hands in defeat. But before you do, know that thereContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Depression: 10 Ways to Help Someone You Love”

Flashback Friday – An Encouragement to Weary Pastors

Pastors are facing depression and anxiety in record numbers this year. As if the numbers pre-COVID weren’t alarming enough, the pandemic has added an unpredictable monster in the cave that could pop out or change form at any moment. Pastors are having to make decisions they have never had to face before and for which thereContinue reading “Flashback Friday – An Encouragement to Weary Pastors”

How We Can Forgive Past Hurts

We’ve all had someone cause us great hurt, pain, suffering, or injustice. Our knee-jerk reaction may be to make them pay, retaliate, or hope they get what’s coming to them. But Christians are called to forgive. That can be hard even for the smallest offenses, but what about when we have deep, lasting pain, trauma,Continue reading “How We Can Forgive Past Hurts”

Flashback Friday – Drowning in the Sea of Hopelessness

Hopeless – “having no expectation of good or success, not susceptible to remedy or cure, and incapable of redemption or improvement” (Merriam-Webster). We feel it as despair or that dark hole of existence we think we will never be able to climb out of. As of late, it seems to be a common theme forContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Drowning in the Sea of Hopelessness”

The Attributes of God (Part 7): Love

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, . . . that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filledContinue reading “The Attributes of God (Part 7): Love”

Flashback Friday – Fountains of Grace

I remember coming in from recess on a hot spring day, sweaty neck and dirty knees, standing in line with a bunch of other matted-haired children for the drinking fountain. Hinging down and titling my neck at my turn, I couldn’t wait for that cool stream of relief to roll down my throat. To myContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Fountains of Grace”

Flashback Friday – The Devoted Things

Like Gollum and his ring, we try to hold on to things that are supposed to be devoted to destruction as if they were treasures. We foolishly think we can manage them, or compartmentalize them, or even use them for good, but in the end they will control us.

Flashback Friday – The Mystery of Marriage

Everybody loves a good mystery! The extravagant characters, the plot twists, the suspense! A true page turner that gets our hearts pumping and leaves us wondering how it will all turn out in the end is a literary delight. If we are looking for an excellent mystery, we have to look no further than theContinue reading “Flashback Friday – The Mystery of Marriage”

Flashback Friday – A Mother’s Worth

In 2014, Keith and Kristyn Getty released a song entitled My Worth is Not in What I Own. It examined the gauntlet of things we might look to to find our value, such as skills, achievements, and wisdom. (If you haven’t heard this song, I highly recommend listening to it.) As a mom of seven, myContinue reading “Flashback Friday – A Mother’s Worth”