Messy Faith
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What motherhood taught me about legalistic Christianity
Being the perfect mom became my new legalism.
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You may think the sky above is falling – but can you hear Jesus calling?
I know you are scared, but I won't let you go. You aren't "too far gone" for me. I'm still here. I haven't gone anywhere. And I'm still loving you, holding you. I'm…
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Cheating on my church: God is bigger than our denominational boxes
But that very brief time that I spent at that church didn't pull me down. In contrast, it really opened my eyes to a lot of things: I realized that the body of…
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Roses in the dumpster: seeing God in everyday life
But God isn't nearly as far away as you think. Open your eyes. Look around you for his love - for his grace - today in the ordinary, in the human, in the…
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Disconnect: when God just doesn’t seem relevant
Life just got a whole lot bigger and scarier. But the God I knew was still small and stuck in the box I created for him with my incomplete understanding of his grace.
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Modesty: a beautiful picture of God’s grace
But now, Christianity still so often promotes a system of modesty that is based in shame. We feebly and fearfully adopt "standards" and try to cover up our sin, our shame, with our…
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Plan A, 2.0
It was confusing...still believing in the ideal of being a "good Baptist girl" who followed her perfect husband into "full-time Christian service," yet realizing that not only was it probably never going to…
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“I will keep believing that God still has a plan”
Healing didn't happen overnight, and there were so many moments - moments like the summer of 2006 - that were pauses on the journey where I simply held onto faith in God's plan.
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finding healing and freedom in secular music
What happened that evening in our home opened up a whole new world for me. I spent hours downloading music, checking out CDs from the library, and just laying in bed listening to…
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perfection is not possible
What my first year of college taught me is that perfection - whether in your spiritual life or academic - is not possible, no matter how hard you try. That's why we need…
