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Even If You Don't Know a Lot About the Bible
Give us today our daily bread. — Matthew 6:11 My short-term memory and my long-term memory could not be more different. I can remember minute details of stuff that happened ...
Why Body Image Is a Spiritual Issue
I’m grateful you’re here. I believe healing is available for us. I believe our culture is ripe for revival as it pertains to seeing our bodies in light of God’s ...
Your Body Is Not a Trophy
Trophies are funny things. We’re supposed to feel a personal sense of achievement because of some fake gold plastic thingamajig purchased from an online catalog? Note that my distinct lack ...
What Size Was Eve?
(It’s Not What Matters)In all of my reading and study of Scripture, I’ve never found a verse that states God measures people by how they look. Instead, when the full ...
Breaking Free from Body Shame: Hope and High-Waisted Jeans
Do you remember the first time you encountered someone whose perception of her body was not in line with culture in the best way? The first time you met someone ...
What Kind of Woman?
Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from one of our favorite books of this past year. It is powerfully insightful, it is fun and inspirational, and it is filled with ...
Tenderness
And now, here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to start all over again. I’m taking her back out into the wilderness where we had our first date, and ...
You Are the Girl for the Job: Let’s Quit
GROUP STUDYWELCOME NOTE FROM JESS (2 MINUTES)Leader, read Note from Jess aloud to the group. Friends! I am so excited to be with you, to grow with you, over the ...
Worship on a Mission
We don’t have to look too far to see beautiful, vibrant examples of people who took God at His Word regarding their respective missions, because they’re literally everywhere. But I ...
Your Weakness Is Real
God Has the Last Word in Your WeaknessYour weakness is real. But I don’t believe in blaming or hiding, unless it’s in the Cross of Christ. As we take steps ...
Let’s See Other People
Do you love personality tests? I love personality tests. Myers-Briggs, DISC testing, even the one that classifies you as an animal (I’m a lion, by the way). My favorite two ...
A Passionate Life
When the hour came, Jesus and His apostles reclined at the table. And He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. ...
Take Patience Too Far
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. — Genesis 50:20The story of Joseph in ...
Take Vulnerability Too Far
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. — 2 Corinthians 4:7VULNERABLEA few years ago, I ...
Dance Stand Run: Let’s Go Back
It’s okay if we’ve had some misconceptions about grace, holiness, and mission. But it’s time for us to go back to the beginning of our faith and sort them out. ...
Even When You Don’t Feel Near to God
You are near, LORD, and all Your commands are true. — Psalm 119:151I always used to ask God to be near, but recently I’ve tried to shift my prayers a ...
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Free Bible Study through the Gospel of John with Megan Fate Marshman!
What if Jesus' words-I Am-are exactly the answers your heart is craving?
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