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    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Little Brother

    This is how we survived the summer

    / September 1, 2016 / 1 Comment

    At the beginning of the summer, I wrote a blog post about Summer Survival. In that post, I talked about the pull of the romanticized notion of letting kids be bored during the…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 04.08.15

    / April 8, 2015 / 5 Comments

    It’s 76 degrees, I’m sitting on my sunporch, and regardless of the fact that I’ve been awake since 4:50AM, I think that right now is the perfect time to be counting my blessings…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Halloween,  Messy Faith

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 11.10.14

    / November 10, 2014 / 4 Comments

    It's been quite some time since the last edition, and there is so much beauty to share.

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  • Ezra,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Hope

    / September 10, 2014 / 2 Comments

    I don't know if I fully believe that hope can change everything. But at least for the last three days, I've felt a spark of hope.

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Family,  Independence Day

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 08.12.14

    / August 12, 2014

    And I want you to know that somewhere, in that mess you look at and call life, there is beauty there too. Grasp it. Hold onto it. Share it. Because it is your…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Messy Faith,  Travel

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 07.08.14

    / July 8, 2014 / 2 Comments

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 07.08.14

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Fatherhood,  Military and Veteran Life,  The Preschool Years

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 06.04.14

    / June 4, 2014 / 1 Comment

    Can I just take a moment and rave about how great the past few weeks have been? I’m not really sure what has made the difference. Maybe it has something to do with…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family

    Beauty in the Mess {Thanksgiving Edition ~ Part 2}

    / November 28, 2013 / 1 Comment

    God our Father We thank You For our many blessings Amen

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Miscellaneous,  Motherhood

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 08.18.13

    / August 19, 2013 / 7 Comments

    ...somehow, I see beauty woven through the days and start feeling better

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Family

    End of May Blessings {Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 5.31.13}

    / May 31, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Pardon me for a moment while I make two posts in one day. And pardon me while I say a big PHEW!!! and exhale on this last day of May. Sheesh, May was…

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