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September 8, 2014
24 – Small is the New Big
The Gist: In this crazy world, we’d rather have the power of big, the power of bestseller, the power of fame. Yet, everyone starts somewhere. In order to have a sustainable career beyond the fluke of one-shot-wonders, we have to understand the importance of small decisions over the long haul, of being faithful in little […]
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September 5, 2014
You: A Gutsy Former Victim
You usually don’t realize you’re being abused or maligned until you step out from underneath oppression. And when you breathe that fresh, amazing air of freedom, you begin to reconstruct the story you had told yourself, where you were bad, full of sin, and deserved such treatment. You now remember conversations with better clarity, and […]
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September 3, 2014
Scars: It’s Okay to Show Them
I read this post by Heather Caliri last week and asked her permission to post it here because it so typifies the healing journey and the uncaged life we all long for. She is a writer from San Diego. She started saying yes to joy in her faith two years ago and was surprised to […]
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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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