I Don’t Want To Raise Church Kids, I Want To Raise Jesus Kids
I don’t want to raise church kids. That’s right. I DO NOT want to raise church kids. Matter of fact, it’s one of my biggest…
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An Open Letter to the Anxious Christian
“Lord, help my unbelief.” I pray this at least 500 times a day. Sometimes more. Living with the struggles of simply being a human in a…
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I Want to Raise Children Whose Hearts Belong to Jesus
I pray that I won’t spend my whole life teaching my children how to look like a Christian. I don’t want to teach them how to talk like a…
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Even Though They’re Gone, I Still Find My Parents in Church
In the 1980s and 1990s, my mom and dad were my Sunday school teachers at different and repeated times throughout my youth. Their tenure was broken…
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Mary’s Baby Boy Changes Everything
I am a mom of little boys. Being the mother of sticky-fingered messes, bruised knees, and dirty clothes gives me a deeper and richer perspective of…
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Move A Little Closer to Jesus This Christmas
Have you seen that cute little Shepherd on the Search? It’s kind of a “Christian” Elf on the Shelf. (Although the Elf on the Shelf can…
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I’m Giving Christmas Back To Christ
I often daydreamed about having a Christmas baby in the days leading up to Christmas 2017. Nobody on earth but my husband knew how badly I wanted a…
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You’ll Outgrow Your Belief in Santa, But Don’t Ever Outgrow Your Trust in Jesus
I’m not ready for you to stop believing in Santa. You came home the other day telling me you had some classmates say he wasn’t real. They tried…
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In the Middle of the Mess, God Loves You
You know that draining feeling of longing to get it all right but not? Needing all the lines to fall into place, but they’re all mixed up? Falling…
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Dear Husband, All My Relationships Had Walls Before You
Dear husband, When I sat down to write this and stared at the blank page, my thoughts reached back to the memories of that sun-drenched September…
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