“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” John 13:34* One another-ing. What does that even mean?? After a quick search, I turned up about 100 “one another” verses in the New Testament alone. Several of them… Continue reading One Another-ing
When you move, I’ll move* “For I know the plans [and places] I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 (my input added) In the fall of 2011, when we said, “Yes, we’ll go,” Chris Tomlin’s song “I Will… Continue reading Surrendering My Places
Have you ever read about someone or watched their story portrayed in a movie and wished that you could meet them some day? Or looked forward to chatting with them in Heaven? That’s how I felt when I read Corrie ten Boom’s The Hiding Place and Eric Mextaxas account of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s life in Bonhoeffer:… Continue reading Someone I’d Like to Know . . . And Someone I Wish I Could Forget
“Our Father in heaven . . . forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.” Matthew 6:9, 12 Forgiveness is such a sticky word. We all know it, and we know that we are supposed to practice it. But knowing and doing are two separate things. We would like to put our… Continue reading Forgiving & Being Forgiven
“To read His message in moments, I’ll need to read His passion on the page; wear the lens of the Word, to read His writing in the world.” ~Ann Voskamp As January came to a close, I exceeded my goal and accomplished reading five books, although they weren’t exactly the books I had intended… Continue reading The Best Book I’ve Read This Year
“Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?” ~David, Psalm 42:5a I can’t do this anymore. I want to quit. I want to quit. I want to quit. My mind races with these self-defeating, negative thoughts. It’s like a mantra, a bad theme song that won’t go… Continue reading The Struggle is Real
I want to be close, close to Your side So Heaven is real and death is a lie* Death feels too real right now. A sweet mama we know parted with her little boy just moments before midnight on New Year’s Eve. A Caring Bridge family announced the passing of a most remarkable woman. My… Continue reading Death is a Lie
“And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it.’” Isaiah 30:21a How do you live after only surviving? During an exceptionally trying time in my friend’s life, I asked her how she was holding up. “Surviving,” she had said, but this wasn’t a way she wanted… Continue reading After Surviving
“For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, ‘In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.’” Isaiah 30:15 This past year felt kind of like being pulled onto an out-of-control train with no destination. Quiet seems like the last possible word I… Continue reading A Quiet Year: Reflecting on God’s Promises
November 22, 2015 “Call to me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.” Jeremiah 33:3 Four years ago, on this weekend, the Drakulic family left Ohio and traveled to Erie, Pennsylvania for Flagship’s first preview service. We met in a small, cluttered room… Continue reading 4 Years Later
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