This summer I am on a personal quest to see if I can still be a genuine person of hope in a world that is giving me ample reasons to not. Does the word "hope" I love still hold true?
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Two things for you this week! First, a meaningful conversation recorded for the popular Pardon the Mess podcast with Courtney Defeo! Second, I am preaching THIS SUNDAY, May 26th on finding peace in this upside down world. Both will speak to your soul in the Maycember craziness! Click through for
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A mother's love is one of the great miracles on earth. I am a person of hope in the world because of my mother's love for me. I have special admiration for Mary, the mother of Jesus. For me, she is an exemplar of courage and sacrificial love.
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This week, I gift you with access to my personal SOULFULL music playlist on Spotify. I hope it brings you comfort, hope, and especially joy. I love the idea of us listening to the same music as a community, and our hearts finding joy and comfort together. Enjoy and
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This week I share my reflection entitled, "Project Resurrection" for the Anniversary of the Covenant tragedy. It was written from a place of tremendous love for the Dieckhaus family, and my deep belief that God built us to resurrect. No matter what our circumstances, God is working to give us
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Welcome to Easter week. God's presence in the present is how God makes Easter not just a one-time dramatic event, but our daily, attainable reality. God just keeps showing up in subtle and profound ways to prove that we are not alone, ever. More profoundly, God works through us to
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This week is all about getting out of God's way, so the Spirit can work in your life. We are coming up on the anniversary of the Covenant School Shooting and Easter. I am wise enough to know now that I am much braver, certainly more balanced (even peaceful) in
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Today I share a very intimate and personal experience of the Holy Spirit in my recent life. What a relief when we call out to God and God rushes in. No burning bushes, angel visitations or the heavens opening for me. My experience of God has been more subtle. We
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Today I wrestle with where and how the Holy Spirit is revealed in our suffering. I believe God is especially close to the broken-hearted. In my own experience, I have felt the mysterious Spirit most profoundly when everything else in my life was dark and uncertain. The Holy Spirit
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This has been a year of the hard and the exquisite. The silver lining of my vulnerability, is that I have felt and have been a witness to God's spirit working creatively and redemptively in and all around me. I think the idea of the Spirit confounds some. You can't
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