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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

Healed Wounds {Grandma’s Funeral & My Trip to My Ohio Hometown}

October 6, 2019 by Aprille 2 Comments

This is the moment everything up til this moment formed into this realization of healing. Because not once during the last few days had I been triggered. Not one hymn. Not one shudder induced by a smell or a sight. No anger. No pain. No regret. Just genuine gratitude and bittersweet joy for my family, for my grandma’s prayers, for the good old hymns, for each and every last memory.

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Posted in: Family, Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Recovering Perfectionist, Redemption Stories, Travel Tagged: death, faith, fundamentalism, funeral, grandparents, grief, healing, legalism

Compost piles, faith deconstruction, and Joshua Harris

July 28, 2019 by Aprille 3 Comments

Maybe you have looked up to people like Rachel Held Evans and Joshua Harris. I know that I did. Maybe their deconstruction stories have shaken your faith. Maybe you wonder if faith deconstruction is for you. Maybe you are ready to walk away from it all. It’s tempting to take a hacksaw to your faith, dump the remains in the yard waste cart, and wipe your hands of it all as the city utility workers haul it all away. But I urge you: build a compost pile. Stay. Please stay. Because the tree grows on the fallen forest. If it died, it can live again.

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Posted in: Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories Tagged: composting, faith, legalism, yard

Still Messy…Still Beautiful {the rebrand that’s not really a rebrand}

April 8, 2019 by Aprille 2 Comments

But isn’t that the point, really? Because you can brand a website, but you can’t brand your life. You can create a style sheet for your blog, but you can’t create a style sheet for your kids. They are gonna be who they are and do what they are going to do, regardless of the perfect plans you have for them. Because God knows what He’s doing way more than we do. And He’s making something beautiful out of our messy life. Beautiful…messy…motherhood…marriage…faith…life. It’s still messy. It’s still beautiful. Beautiful…in His time. That’s what it’s always been. That’s what it will always be.

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Family, Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting, The Preschool Years Tagged: Ezra, faith, little brother, paint, painting

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

Regeneration: transforming the way you look at your spiritual identity

June 22, 2018 by Aprille Leave a Comment

Regeneration. Congratulations. If you have even clicked on this post I admire your bravery in tackling a big scary Bible word. Even growing up in a Bible-saturated environment like I did, I admit that I haven’t taken the time I should to dig deep and figure out what God actually means by the word regeneration. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: christianity, church, faith, grace, legalism, regeneration, spirituality

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

Christian living post-legalism: how I got stuck in my “walk with God”

January 21, 2018 by Aprille Leave a Comment

The practical struggle of everyday Christian living when you are a recovering legalist When I spent two and a half months in 2013 fleshing out the theology of grace while telling my personal story, I came to a lot of good conclusions that I believe to be Biblical. Let me summarize them in a nutshell: … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: Christian living, Christian walk, church, faith, grace, legalism, sanctification, walk with God, walking with God
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