Service Over Self(ishness)

God, grace, growing, service

Saturday a friend invited my husband and me to serve in an area of Memphis we don’t normally encounter.  It was going to be an all day thing where we would connect with prostitutes, former prostitutes, and the poor, trying to show them love, grace, and...

It Takes Time

1 Thessalonians, Bible, God, grace, growing, Matthew, Philippians

The majority of the time my posts are hard to stomach.  I often write about getting real.  And the reality about getting real is that it means we have to call sin sin. When we stop to read the scriptures, we see ourselves on the pages.  We see the Bible call our sin...

On Sin

Crazy Love, Francis Chan, God, growing, Jesus, love, sin

I know I am late to the party on this one, but I am finally getting around to reading Francis Chan’s Crazy Love.  And something he said has been reverberating in my mind for a week or two. I don’t have the book with me, so forgive me if the quote...

Walled In

God, growing, Hosea, sin

I got on a Hosea kick over the summer.  I wrote a handful of posts from some verses that knocked me over. God really spoke, and I really listened.  But somewhere in there, I must not have applied what I learned. Three months later, I am back in this book.  I am...

Even Better

friendship, God, growing, Jeremiah

Like most four year olds, my daughter, Lexi, has a best friend.  Her name is Kelsey, and they have been friends their WHOLE LIVES.  I was looking at “old” pictures the other day, and because Kelsey’s mom and I are also friends, these two girls have...

Kingdom Vision

Colossians, God, growing, Holy Spirit

When God wants to teach me about a concept, He typically paces Himself.  Maybe it’s because He knows how long it is going to take me to catch on… Anyway, the theme of the summer has been living a Spirit-led life.  God set out to teach me what that means,...