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It’s okay to say you’ve felt deeply betrayed.  It’s okay to honestly confess: Betrayal doesn’t just leave your heart broken; it leaves your soul jaded.  It changes your heart when you know Christ died for those who’ve hurt your heart. It’s okay to quietly say it: It’s harder to give forg

I light a candle early on Wednesday of Holy Week.  And maybe it’s not so much Spy Wednesday, or Silent Wednesday, because what happens on the Wednesday of Holy Week isn’t so much about the spy Judas, nor about any supposed silence about what really happened on Wednesday of Holy Week.  Because

Christ on the Cross is our korban. I’ve heard a myriad of reasons why Jesus had to go to the cross, but I stopped dead in my tracks, right there in the sheepfold, right there in the midst of feeding my wee flock of sheep. Why had I never realized the connection before? Or ever really heard this befo

Happy, happy, happy weekend! Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a little bit more this weekend... Smile a mile wide & believe like crazy in a Good God redeeming everything -- and that there's love everywhere & for ((you)

How we can know deep down that we are not just tolerated, but beloved by God? Timothy Jones is a pastor and author known for helping people encounter greater warmth and closeness in their relationship with God, and in his new book, Fully Beloved, he’s not afraid to name our brokenness and explore ho

How do you live your life on purpose, living out your purpose? That's kinda the big question. In Crickett Keeth's new eight-week Bible study, Living Out a Life That Matters, Crickett shares a beautiful pathway to a life that goes deeper in Christ—a life that has meaning and leaves a legacy of etern

Happy, happy, happy weekend! Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a little bit more this weekend... Smile a mile wide & believe like crazy in a Good God redeeming everything -- and that there's love everywhere & for ((you)

You know, life can get heavy when we’re not even looking. Worries pile up. Regrets loom. Bitterness builds. I’m grateful to introduce you today to Laurie Davies and her warm-hearted wisdom and wit. Page by page and emotion by emotion Laurie’s book Emotional Hoarding leads us into courageous confron

When you hold in your hands an only hours-old human being, your youngest son’s youngest son, you’re hushed before a miraculous little face that’s like looking into the past, into the face of your own long-ago baby boy, and of your husband, and your father, and all your people and your past, and a lo

Honestly, I just really deeply love the women who sit across from hurting people with open hands and honest hearts, the ones who refuse to rush past pain and instead make space for Jesus to meet us right there. That’s Willow Weston, author of Collide: Running Into Healing When Life Hands You Hurt. W