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Sexually Abused? Marriage Can Be a Healing Place

Here’s our testimony. This is the first time my husband Patrick and I have spoken publicly about this issue and our journey toward wholeness. I pray it blesses you. I speak as an abuse survivor, as one who has had a hard time understanding sex as beautiful. Patrick speaks as a spouse of a survivor, […]

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When the Cheerleader Dies

My friend Twilla grew up in Louisiana. It seems only fitting that on March 4th, she marched forth to dance with Jesus on Mardis Gras. The beads must’ve been flying in heaven, the sound of her laughter echoing off golden streets. The parade would put New Orleans pageantry to shame. Oh how much Twilla exemplified […]

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What I Knew in My Deep Places {Guest post by Margot Starbuck}

I’m grateful to have my friend Margot Starbuck share space here today. I normally don’t have guest posts, but hers is so beautiful and so closely tied to Not Marked, that I knew it would bless you. Margot Starbuck is the author of the newly-released Not Who I Imagined: Surprised by a Loving God. Connect […]

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The Church is Not Just 20-Somethings

This is an excerpt from a post I wrote today on Deeper Story titled, “Ageism in the Age of Hipster Christianity.” … When I attended Cape Town 2010, I had two very significant encounters. As a table group leader, I had the privilege of leading six people in discussion during our time there. One man, […]

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Get 2 Books for Less than a Monkey

Note: This offer lasts until Monday March 10 at midnight, CST. (But you can buy the monkey any time you wish). Here’s the monkey in question: You can buy him at Amazon for a flat $20. He won’t teach you anything. He may listen to your problems. Or your dog may take a shining to […]

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The Lie I Believed

As I’ve been processing my productivity and my proclivity to burn out, I’ve stumbled upon a lie I’ve believed in the pit of my gut. Here it is: If a thing can be done, it must be done. This is tyranny, friends. And I’ve lived under this dictatorship most of my life. Not only that, […]

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Ministry Fear: What if What We Want Isn’t What God Wants?

Last weekend, I rested. Oddly, resting to me involves digging in the dirt, cleaning out the yard, hearing the birds chirp as I messy myself with soil and worms and plants. This rest involved pruning back dead wood. I realized something quite startling as I clipped dead branches: the dead ones were easier to snap […]

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I could use prayer, folks.

These past few weeks have been amazing, but exhausting. I launched Not Marked on February 10th, did several high intensity guest posts (one with 400 comments), and tried to master accounting for my company (which I am failing at). I help put on a blogging seminar, spoke for 7th and 8th grade girls, started my […]

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The Typos that Humiliate

So, yeah. There are typos in Not Marked. This happened in my other books (traditionally published!) so I shouldn’t let it bother me, but it does. I wracked my brain over this, had hired editors and went through the book with what I thought was a fine tooth comb. To no avail. The good news […]

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Replace the Words and Change Your Life

At the If: Gathering a week and a half ago, speaker Bianca Olthoff shared the familiar phrase, “Hurt people hurt people.” But then she said this: “Freed people free people,” and oh how I resonated. You may have hurt or damaged others. Others may have hurt or damaged you. But because of Jesus, that is […]

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