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In the Hands of the Master Builder: Faith Deconstruction (and Reconstruction)
Initially, my "deconstruction" may have started with dismantling and throwing out things I felt didn't fit the structure I was trying to build. Thankfully, and but by the grace of God, I quickly…
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Corporate Celebration: The Lord’s Table and 1 Corinthians 11
Reframing the solemn ordinance and observance into the context of community, family, and corporate celebration was very new to me. It was also relieving to finally understand the social context of the social…
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A Fresh Pursuit of God in 2020: The Bible, Faith, and Spiritual Growth
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…
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A King James Version (KJV) Audio Bible for Women
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…
- Messy Faith, Motherhood, Mothering Through Fatigue, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting
How do you pursue a relationship with God when you’re exhausted?
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…
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Approaching the spiritual disciplines with grace and expectancy
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…
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{More} creative faith and Bible journaling resources
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…
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Live in the outflow: a new way of looking at Christian living
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…
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Christian, you can read your Bible and still be falling apart
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…
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What our neglected yard is teaching me about my faith and spiritual growth
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…
