Where God's Word Meets Our Mess
Mentorship is a trendy topic in the Church. Maybe you’ve read or heard sermons, podcast episodes, books, articles, or other content about this topic. Perhaps you’ve felt pressure from members of your family or members of your church to participate in mentorship. But you don’t know if finding a mentor is actually necessary. My hope is that this post will help you figure that out.
Maybe “The Truth” by Megan Woods is such a popular song because we want to believe we’re good enough as we are. We want to believe we don’t need to change anything in our lives. We want to believe God doesn’t mind when we sin as Christians. Unfortunately, the song “Church Clothes” by Franni Cash has a similar vibe—and I don’t like it.
Before I downloaded a dating app, I was told that I should have low expectations. I was told that pickings would be slim. However, there was one thing that I wasn’t told—and that’s what I’m going to tell you in this post.
When I started reading When It Hurts to Hope, I liked it. I felt like Rachel understood me, and I resonated with her experiences and observations. Partway through the book, however, I stopped reading it because I encountered multiple things that made me feel uneasy. This post addresses one of them—the concept that Christians are “worthy.”
Last week, I published Part 1 in this series about holding on to hope during the wait. In that post, I shared a practical way to remain hopeful while waiting, and I'm going to share another in today's post. Like me, you might be waiting for marriage—or you might be waiting for something entirely different. Either way, this post is for you in your season of waiting.
Falling in love seemed so exhilarating, and I couldn’t wait to experience it for myself. With great anticipation, I waited for my prince to come. However, as the years passed—and as countless family members and friends found “happily ever after”—I started to believe he might never come.
Whether you’ve memorized a hundred verses or zero verses, this post is for you. I didn't write it because I'm expert on Scripture memorization; I wrote it because Scripture memorization is hard and we all need encouragement as we work toward it. This post includes three encouraging reminders that will hopefully inspire you to start or continue incorporating this practice into your life.
If you’ve ever felt completely defeated like I did that day, you should read this poem—not because I’m an incredible poet but because God is an incredible God. He can change your relationship status in an instant if that’s what He wants to do. Even if he doesn’t, He loves you. And He’s bigger than this, friends.
You probably won’t hear this from secular therapists or self-help books, but eating disorders are spiritual battles. Yes, various things can “trigger” eating disorders—but they’re ultimately “triggered” by lies from the devil. Eating disorders develop as people hear and believe (and act on) the lies he tells them. If you have a friend with an eating disorder, prayer is the best weapon in her* spiritual battle, and this post includes three specific ways you can pray on her behalf.
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