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    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    Free Indeed (Blessings from an Unsuccessful Church Merger Part 1)

    / February 5, 2024 / 0 Comments

    2023 brought many opportunities for our family to grow and change. One of the biggest opportunities was the sixth months our church spent in "conversation" with another local church about a potential church…

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  • Christmas,  Ezra,  Family,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Special Needs Parenting

    “Behold Him…” – A Christmas Prayer for the (Still) Weary

    / December 5, 2023 / 0 Comments

    I don't know what you are facing this Christmas. Maybe, like me, your days are filled with wearily managing a child with special needs or a spouse with mental illness and you feel…

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    In the Hands of the Master Builder: Faith Deconstruction (and Reconstruction)

    / September 25, 2023 / 0 Comments

    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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    I’m Invited to the Table of the Lord: The Lord’s Table & Hospitality

    / May 5, 2023 / 0 Comments

    This understanding that I am accepted and personally invited to the Lord's Table (like I invite people to MY table) has given me such joy - such settled satisfaction - in participating in…

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    Disentangling (and reclaiming) the hymns of the Lord’s Table

    / April 2, 2023 / 0 Comments

    As my fingers have learned new accompaniments of hymns I've known from my childhood, my heart has been disentangling them from the meanings ascribed to them in legalistic environments. The words have washed…

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    Seven Words That Changed the Way I Viewed the Lord’s Table

    / December 23, 2022 / 0 Comments

    Righteousness. Propitiation. Redemption. Imputation. Justification. Reconciliation. Regeneration. The Lord's Table is a pictorial manifestation of those seven words.

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

    / January 6, 2021 / 0 Comments

    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

    / February 4, 2020 / 2 Comments

    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…

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

    / October 6, 2019 / 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…

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    Compost piles, faith deconstruction, and Joshua Harris

    / July 28, 2019 / 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…

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