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A Fresh Pursuit of God in 2020: The Bible, Faith, and Spiritual Growth

January 6, 2021 by Aprille Leave a Comment

I still don’t have my “daily devotions” or “quiet time,” as is traditionally thought of in regard to the spiritual disciplines like reading the Bible and prayer. But pursuit of God has been weaving its way through our days more consistently now than ever before. 

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories Tagged: Bible, bible journaling, church, faith, god, scripture, the Bible

A King James Version (KJV) Audio Bible for Women

February 4, 2020 by Aprille Leave a Comment

My mom has been reading to me since I was born. So I called her up and asked her to take on the immense endeavor of narrating the first-ever (to my knowledge) King James Version audio Bible read completely by a woman. 

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Posted in: Friendship & Community, Messy Faith, Redemption Stories Tagged: audio Bible, audiobook, audiobooks, Bible, bible journaling, faith, grace, kjv, legalism, recovery, scripture

How do you pursue a relationship with God when you’re exhausted?

July 26, 2018 by Aprille 4 Comments

Over the last few posts in my series, Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith, I feel that I’ve done the best I can do to present theologically-sound, Scripturally-based truth about pursuing a relationship with God. My posts have been purposed and thought-out over months of planning, mulling, and meditating. What I have presented … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Motherhood, Mothering Through Fatigue, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: Bible, exhausted, faith, fatigue, god, tired

Approaching the spiritual disciplines with grace and expectancy

June 5, 2018 by Aprille Leave a Comment

At our March 2017 care group meeting, our discussion turned toward the topic of spiritual disciplines. By definitions, “spiritual disciplines” are generally those things that should be habitual to the Christian walk: reading the Bible, prayer, gathering with God’s people. I was able to honestly share my struggles about duty versus desire in regard to … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: Bible, church, devotions, faith, quiet time, spiritual disciplines

{More} creative faith and Bible journaling resources

May 16, 2018 by Aprille 1 Comment

It’s been over two years since I first talked about Bible journaling here on the blog. I haven’t spent nearly as much time on this as I would like, but I wanted to give a small update, share some things I’ve colored and created, and share some great resources I have found. Bible journaling is … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: art, art therapy, Bible, bible journaling, church, coloring, faith

Live in the outflow: a new way of looking at Christian living

January 29, 2018 by Aprille 1 Comment

In the last segment of this series, I spoke about the practical struggle of everyday Christian living when you are a recovering legalist. Mainly, doing the “right thing” when you don’t want to, navigating spiritual disciplines, and how to know if you are living in your own strength or God’s power. I concluded my last post … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: Bible, church, fundamentalism, grace, IFB, legalism

Christian, you can read your Bible and still be falling apart

January 9, 2018 by Aprille 1 Comment

I was cleaning my bedroom last week when this quote popped into my head. I had cleaned off my night stand, including my new(ish) journaling Bible that had been resting there. While I have been using it (more on this to come), it’s not falling apart by any means. It’s condition might even be called … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Recovering Perfectionist Tagged: Bible, devotions, spurgeon

What our neglected yard is teaching me about my faith and spiritual growth

September 28, 2017 by Aprille 1 Comment

When we moved into our new home in April, we were totally in love with the fenced-in yard on a corner lot that came with it. Three massive oaks line the front yard and five white pines offer shade or our spacious side yard. Scattered in between the bigger trees were a varied assortment of … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: Bible, church, grace, legalism, new house, spiritual growth, spirituality, yard

Face to Face: A Messy Tribute to the Place I First Met God

August 15, 2017 by Aprille 5 Comments

If you have ever been on my blog before, you probably know that I feel like I have a complicated “faith story.” (If you are new to my blog, you might want to start here.) After walking away from “fundamentalism” in my mid-twenties, I’m now in the process of letting God reconstruct my faith as … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories Tagged: Bible, camp, church, faith, god, hell, messy faith, peniel bible camp, scripture, summer

Bible Journaling: Art Therapy for my Bible Scars

January 2, 2016 by Aprille 17 Comments

In the bottom of my nightstand drawer sits my Bible. It is every bit the cliche of the “Bible collecting dust tucked away somewhere” that I always heard preached about. In all of the writing I’ve done here on my blog about faith, I haven’t talked much about it: the Word…tucked away in the bottom of … [Read more…]

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