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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • Top Ten Posts of All Time
    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    Love has a bigger table (Blessings from an Unsuccessful Church Merger Part 5)

    / February 23, 2024

    Participating in this observance with these believers we had come to know and serve alongside filled me with awe and gratitude. Not only was I being welcomed at the Lord's Table - a…

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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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    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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    Corporate Celebration: The Lord’s Table and 1 Corinthians 11

    / December 27, 2022 / 0 Comments

    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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    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 Moment of Silence {Come to the Lord’s Table Series: Part 2}

    / December 21, 2022 / 0 Comments

    There's no agonizing soul-searching. It's like the entire church says, "Let's all stop and have a moment of silence for Jesus and what He did for us when He died for us. Isn't…

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    Am I Worthy? {Come to the Lord’s Table Series: Part 1}

    / December 20, 2022 / 3 Comments

    I'm not a theologian. I'm a daughter of God who has learned that she is welcome at the Lord's Table. This process of learning - and accepting - these truths is what I…

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