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November 11, 2015
first re-story podcast
I’m so excited to be able to share this with you. Watch here for the premier episode of the re-story podcast.
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November 9, 2015
What is the gospel, you ask?
The gospel is a story, an amazing adventure that beckons all of us toward a God who put human skin on and tromped around in our shoes. It’s the most sacrificial love story in history, the story every story derives its meaning from. The players?A Triune God. A rebellious people. A scrappy enemy. The setting? […]
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November 8, 2015
The Sexy Wife I Cannot Be
(I recently found out this post is no longer available on the site I originally wrote it for, so I’m posting it here for the sake of those who need it. This post is the impetus for writing Not Marked: Finding Hope and Healing after Sexual Abuse. And it is birthed in pain and reality, […]
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November 5, 2015
How Folded Paper Will Change Your Life (It changed mine)
So grab a piece of notebook paper. I’m going to share with you something that truly changed my life. I did this exercise a few years ago at the prodding of a wise business coach. In the moment it helped me form a giant AHA, but its repercussions stay with me today, and they inform […]
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November 3, 2015
Therapy in a Shoebox
Since I was a little girl, I fretted about giving gifts. Maybe because I loved receiving them so much, I feared that the gift I would give would not make the person receiving it happy. This paralyzed me, this worry that my gift wouldn’t be good enough, or important enough. When I had little money, […]
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October 29, 2015
Idolatry in a Christian Celebrity World
As an unpublished author, I attended my first major Christian writers conference. Author Randy Alcorn keynoted. Having always admired him for his humility and dedication to the kingdom of God, I soaked up his words, particularly when he shared, “The greatest danger of notoriety is you start thinking about you. People then exist to serve […]
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October 26, 2015
Your Silence Hurts Others
I’ve had the sad privilege of walking alongside some friends who are battling in some significant relationships. They teeter on the edge of breakup mainly because the other party will not tell an honest story and their painful past has caught up with them. So many of us believe the lie that if we hide […]
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October 22, 2015
My Body Shame Hurts Them (& Me)
So I was talking to my eldest daughter Sophie in the doctor’s office. She had graciously taken me because I’d been stung by a weird thing called a puss moth (ouch). I had been weighed as a part of the visit, and the number really bothered me. So I said it. To her. All these […]
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October 19, 2015
Womb to Box
I sat in the large auditorium, only having known the woman who died in brief interactions. But I cried as children she had ministered danced (yes, danced) to the Happy song. Such a strange juxtaposition in a memorial service. And yet, beautiful. Because in that moment, my acquaintance, whose body lay cold in a box […]
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October 15, 2015
Be ALL Here
If you truly desire impossible joy, you have to be present. Remember that God is not the Great I Was. He is not the Great I Will Be. He is the Great I Am—the God of the present tense. All you have is now. And how you view your life right now will determine your […]
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