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Does Depression play a Key Role in the Christian life?

September 13, 2021

I recently had the privilege of reading a beautiful new book by my dear friend Sarah Robinson called I love Jesus but I want to Die – Finding Hope in the Darkness of Depression. It was a powerful, beautiful book about the reality and pain of depression and suicidal thoughts/tendencies and how God can find you there.

I cried my way through it.

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10 Life Lessons You will Learn from Working Out

March 5, 2020

Ever struggled to find motivation for working out? Sometimes that desire for weight loss just isn’t enough… Good thing there’s more to gain from working out than just fitting into your skinny jeans.

Endurance, Self Care

To the Soul Suffering from Marital Loneliness

February 15, 2020

You know you’ve experienced it… Marital loneliness…

…that ache of feeling unequally yoked? of missing the “friend” you used to have? Or, wondering what happened to the person you thought you married?

But, it’s not because they are gone that you miss them, but rather, and even most especially, when you are in the same room, and living under the same roof!

Relationship with God, Self Care

Is your Heart Fertile Ground? Reflection on the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13)

January 29, 2020

The garden at our house exploded with produce last year. The difference fertile ground makes is truly incredible!

The year before we were using the same soil that we had been using for the previous 4 years. The desperate lack of nutrients remaining in the soil was definitely starting to show. So we decided to build a whole new garden box and bought new topsoil. This process gave me an entirely new and different perspective on the Parable of the Sower.

Discernment, Self Care

To the Christian Struggling to Accomplish their Goals

January 11, 2020

Every year you make all these amazing new goals… but, how often do we accomplish them?

What is the problem?

Is it that we aren’t committed enough? Do external obstacles really play that big of a part? Or, maybe, just maybe, we don’t know how to set the right goals?