What’s Holding You Back From Living Free?

Fugitive. The word glared at me, an accurate definition of how I’d been living my life for, well…all my life. I’d lived in a world wrapped up in Fear’s clutches and the need to do it all right. And when I didn’t, Shame told me I was no good. Doubt stepped in and made me … Read more

God Wants You to Be Free

My brain was running like a hamster hyped up on caffeine, my stomach knotting up tight as I wrestled over this decision I had to make. If I said yes, it was going to require my time and quite a chunk of change. And if I said no I might miss out on an opportunity … Read more

Dear Graduate: A Letter for the Journey Ahead

We come from a culture that tells us to keep moving forward, keep doing, keep growing. And that’s good. But we also need time to rest and process. Time to let our hearts catch up to the racing pace we’ve been keeping. Time to seek the Lord and rest in Him.So as you embark on this celebration and cross the stage to shake hands and walk away with your degree, I hope you take these things to heart–things I’ve learned these last few years out here in the “real world.”

Great Grace: A Story of Restoration

One of the things I love most about studying the Bible is letting my imagination fill in the gaps as people encountered the Lord. Their emotions, their struggle, their journey to believing. With Easter just hours away, I wanted to look at how people were affected by the resurrection. What would it have been like … Read more

Remember Jesus in Every Season

**Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.** Rachelle Dekker wrote in her Seer Series* that life is a series of forgetting and remembering. Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of forgetting. I could blame … Read more

Faith Brings Healing

Faith Brings Healing

  2017 started the way the last three years have: me and my journal and Jesus. I was reflecting over the previous year and praying over the coming one, a word sitting heavy on my heart. Revive. I was in the middle of writing down what I felt the Lord say He would revive, when … Read more

Joy Jar: Collecting Moments that Matter

Joy Jar

This time last year the Lord put a word on my heart for 2016: Harvest. It was a promise that the seeds of what had been sown over the last few years were about to come to life. I wasn’t sure which promises, but I was excited to see what the Lord had in store. … Read more

Faith Tension: Faithfully Living Right Where You Are

Faith Tension

For the last several weeks I’ve had this feeling I couldn’t quite describe. I wasn’t upset. I wasn’t stressed. I wasn’t doubting God. Yet I felt like I was in this sort of wrestling match. Then one of my friends posted this on Facebook: “There is a tension of resting where God has you and … Read more

Knowing God and Taking Risks

Knowing God and Taking Risks

Paul writes in Philippians 3 that compared to knowing Jesus Christ as Lord, all else is rubbish—a big pile of smelly garbage. That’s a huge statement, one that can completely flip our world view upside down. We seek so much in this life—wealth, happiness, love, acceptance, material possessions, health, a good marriage, a nice house, … Read more