How to Wait Well During Advent

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. At no extra charge to you, if you make a purchase through this link, I will receive a small commission. Christmas is already in the air. Can you feel it? I think we’re all a little ready for something to look forward to and a reason to celebrate. After … Read more

A Timely Bible Study on Waiting

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Drawing Near to God in Seasons of Waiting

I feel like we’re in a perpetual season of waiting. We can blame the pandemic, I suppose. Ever since March we’ve been watching the news and waiting for the day when we can go about our normal lives again. I’m certain none of us–or at least very few of us–thought we’d still be waiting in … Read more

6 Books to Encourage You in Seasons of Waiting

Books take us to places we might never get to on our own. When we pick up a book we’re looking for something, whether that be answers, an escape, entertainment, or direction. I have experienced so many powerful moments with God in the pages of books. Fiction and nonfiction alike. Books give me the language … Read more

A Lesson in Waiting Well: The Tension of Contentment

I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! ~Psalm 27:13-14 As a single woman quickly approaching my mid-twenties, I’ve received a lot of questions and advice about my dating … 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

Faith in the Ordinary Tasks

Noah's Faith

The more I get into Genesis, the more I realize that this is God’s story. Other people are woven in and out of each chapter, but God is the constant… Last week, when we left off, Cain, son of Adam and Eve, had just murdered his brother and was exiled. He now wanders the land, … Read more

Hope Does Not Disappoint

Hope is a funny thing, isn’t it? It’s one of those words that’s often hard to define, yet we use it so frequently. Hope is a feeling of expectation that something will happen or a feeling of trust. We often connect hope with something in the future. But God’s been challenging me lately with the … Read more