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when you’ve been hurt by legalism or the church, hold onto faith
But I urge you, Christian who has been hurt by legalism: Don't give up on God. Hold onto faith.
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Failed courtship: when you trust and obey but your heart still gets broken
Have you ever had your heart broken by a relationship gone wrong or a dream unfulfilled? Have you ever found yourself trying to find the answers to the blame game? Have you ever…
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hiding in shame, packing up my dreams
I was standing in an empty dormitory room, the one right across from mine. It had been empty for the entire semester, but now it was where I was hiding all of my…
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Standing Under the Broken Heart: How Shaming Leads to Legalism
A war had been started within my soul. Part of me that believed that their opinion of me was also God’s opinion: that I really was a rebellious person if I didn’t follow…
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what is “legalism”?
After some prayerful consideration of the objective and direction of this series, I feel that it is necessary to share what I mean when I use the term "legalism." When I was living…
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some self-observations about legalism
I was driving with a new friend back from the park, and we were discussing our religious backgrounds and some of the standards that we used to follow when we were growing up.…
- Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Motherhood, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Recovering Perfectionist
Dealing with online guilt, jealousy, and self-doubt
You aren't quite sure how to identify it, but you feel it. When your online friend announces she's switching to cloth diapers, entering a 5K, planning a home birth, sending off a book…
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“composing a beautiful existence that barely needs a savior”
"I impress the world with passionate, visible morality while avoiding God altogether. There is something to humility that is costly...something resembling humiliation...an outright declaration of the wreck we are without God rather than…
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When you see Lightning McQueen in yourself
“All he cared about was winning the big race and becoming famous.” That’s the line out of the board-book version of Cars I just read to my son. And it made me wince.
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Final thoughts on my husband’s six years in the Army
It’s within an hour of midnight on the evening of our last official day in the Army. I just finished watching about three straight hours of science fiction television, and even at the…