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September 1, 2014
23 – Rest Rest Rest
I am back from Sabbatical, and I’ll start this new season with a message I gave our life group at Lake Pointe Church about rest. I pray it blesses you way down deep. The Gist: There is a strange and beautiful connection between worship and rest. Learn the secret of a rest-filled life! Quotes about […]
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August 28, 2014
My Eclectic Church Biography
I’m a Seattle girl, born and bred. I didn’t meet Jesus until I was fifteen and the Young Life leader kept telling stories about this man named Jesus who stilled the waves and stooped to help the hurting. I fell in love with Him then. The leader told me I needed to find a church, […]
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August 25, 2014
22 – What Are Thin Places?
I’m excited to share this excerpt from my memoir, Thin Places. The Gist: A thin place is a place where you experience the presence of God, where the veil between heaven and earth are thin. Typically, these happen in times of difficulty. This book is my heart naked on the page, where you see just […]
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August 23, 2014
Why You Shouldn’t Just Let it Go {Susanne Maynes guest post}
This is a guest post by author Susanne Maines. You can meet her at her website here or on Facebook. I love the important message she shares here. … Ever notice how our culture promotes forgetting the past and forging ahead? Take the theme song from the Disney film “Frozen.” Kids of all ages know […]
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August 21, 2014
The Secret of A Less Panicked Life
Have you ever given in to panic? Boy howdy, have I. And it lead to fear-mongering in my heart and sin. Once, during a particularly vexing time when I faced an enemy of sorts, I panicked, retaliated in kind, and made a mess of things. My panic gave my “enemy” more fuel to hate me. […]
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August 20, 2014
13 Lessons
Dear Twilla, Giver of parties (and life of them all), creative friend, compassionate servant, lover of family, uniquely gifted artist, mind if I share three words? I miss you. Today while cleaning out my closet, I found several notes some of your friends wrote a few weeks after you died. I had a bare-branched tree […]
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August 18, 2014
21 – Enslaved no more. Really!
I had a product on this site where I shared the healing journey, how God heals your broken heart. Instead of selling it, I am going to give it to you for free in six installments. This is installment number six, the final episode. Hooray! The Gist: Today we’re going to talk about slavery and […]
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August 14, 2014
Why Our Kids Date (and don’t court)
Recently, my friend Thomas Umstattd of Author Media (who built this website) posted about Courting. It’s definitely worth a read. “Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed.” I’ve long pondered this idea, particularly after I Kissed Dating Goodbye hit the bookshelves so many years ago. Something about it made me uncomfortable. Not that I didn’t want to […]
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Is hanging out in a coffeeshop, church?
One of my most trafficked blog posts is Spiritual Abuse: 10 Ways to Spot it. While I’m not an expert on spiritually abusive churches or ministries, I’ve had my share of negative experiences, some bordering on abuse. As I read through the comments, I saw a lot of hurting people, some of whom have left […]
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August 11, 2014
20 – The Hidden Vows that Make us Sick
I had a product on this site where I shared the healing journey, how God heals your broken heart. Instead of selling it, I am going to give it to you for free in six installments. This is installment number five. Hooray! The Gist: Today we’re going to talk about the vows we quietly make […]
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