The Renewal of Our Minds
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. – Romans 12:2 HCSB “A Mind is a Terrible...
View ArticleThe Roadmap Behind the Prayer Journal
The Lord answered me: Write down this vision; clearly inscribe it on tablets so one may easily read it. – Habakkuk 2:2 While I completely understand the hermeneutics behind this verse, since the day I...
View ArticleLessons From Within The Storm
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View ArticleBeware the Yeast of the Pharisees
In my previous post, I shared a little bit about what I learned going through a personal storm and reading God’s Word through it. The thing is, I believe most of us try to understand the unpleasant...
View ArticleWhen It’s Hard to Be Encouraging
Confession: I am not optimistic at all. As I look around at what this world is doing, and what our own nation is choosing, I get wary. I see America reject God, choose Iran over Israel, abortion over...
View ArticleMy Church Is Huge!
I am part of a really big church, guys! Now the church that I attend on Sunday mornings has a congregation of around 150-200 people. We definitely have room for more! I love LifeChange First Assembly...
View ArticleThe Arrows in Your Quiver
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons born in one’s youth. Happy is the man who has filled his quiver with them. Such men will never be put to shame when they speak with their enemies at...
View ArticleHigh School Drama
An open letter to Bremerton School District: Confession: I am a survivor of public school. I graduated with honors, but it was not a process I enjoyed. In the least. My public school was also...
View ArticleOpportunities of Faith
2 Corinthians 9:7-11Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) 7 Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able...
View ArticleIt is time…
Hi my friends! I’m sorry that I haven’t written in a while. There are a lot of going-ons right now and for a moment I was stunned silent and in observation mode. On the downside, I’m struggling with...
View ArticleGod Is On-Time
Confession: As I’m blogging right now at 9:42am, I have been awake since 4am, struggling with anxiety. Following nightmares, I had a hard time falling asleep. That meme of a woman’s brains like...
View ArticleFaith, Hope and Love
Above my sofa is a decal with 1 Corinthians 13:13 Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. This week, I had a lesson on this that made me look at this wall...
View ArticleLosing My Religion
I have a bone to pick with New Year’s Resolutions. Their focus seem to be more or less that you and I aren’t precisely in the palm of God’s hand, and thus everything about ourselves we didn’t fix in...
View ArticleWhen Anxiety is Real
Confession: I struggle with anxiety from time to time. In some people, anxiety is a result of a trauma. Or it’s the inability to quiet their own fears, to “keep calm and … ” I can’t recall a...
View ArticleHealthy From the Inside Out
Confession: In all my striving I have not lost any weight. I may have gained two pounds. Which is very frustrating when you take into account all the chocolate, donuts, and cream-filled goodness I...
View ArticleLife: Not for The Faint of Heart
Confession: Last week I struggled with neck pain, running behind on life, kids who disobeyed me and got into mischief in oh so creative ways, inspections, conversation with the local housing authority...
View ArticleLessons Learned as an Outsider
Confession: It seems Guatemala is familiar with tourists and have absolutely no problems selling us beer or making fun of our President. This doesn’t upset me though, it made my husband and I chuckle....
View ArticleA REALLY good Sunday
Confession: I’m so glad we had a wonderful Sunday church service. Because after that, this week went downhill, and I’m just now getting my head above water! But I’m focusing on positives here today,...
View ArticleWhat is Your Reaction?
Confession: I’ve been tested to my core last week. And normally I face these stresses with a “woe is me” attitude, but lately I’ve been prayerfully observing… My triggers… My reactions… So as I face...
View ArticleFor Those Reactions You Can’t Control
Confession: I have blogged about anxiety before. More this year than I have in the past. In fact, where last year I focused a lot on physical health, this year I’m inexplicably drawn more to mental...
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