Tag: faith
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Shaping Teachers
Gas or brake — every teacher who’s ever pointed you to Jesus presses one or the other.
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Half of His Distance
He shows up warm for everyone — high fives, hugs, viral posts — and somehow that’s the problem. Chasing his attention through Carnegie, Ted Lasso, and a stack of unanswered texts, I keep hitting the same wall: reciprocity. Then Revelation hands me an image I can’t shake — a door, a knock, and only half…
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Secondhand Amen
A photo came through on my phone this morning. No face — just two hands, raised. I used to be the one standing in rooms like that. This time, I wasn’t. What I did next surprised me.
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Two A.M. Drive
A tribute post full of reverence and no friction got me thinking about what faith actually looks like — and it isn’t the version with a banner and a crowd.
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Where Else to Look
A spreadsheet off by $409.38 turns into a question about what it means to notice — in friendships, in writing, in grief, in faith. A personal essay on why some things never fully reconcile, and why looking anyway might be the whole point.
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Looking Up from Here
Every story is told in a straight line, right? Beginning, middle, end. Mine looks more like shards of broken glass. Choices, truths, and the grace that met me in the quiet turned my story into something I stopped hiding.
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Get To
I noticed I was living in have to when I could have been living in get to. Weird. Two little words. Everything changed.
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Called, Not Qualified
Solomon built his Temple with the finest cedar in the world. God builds His with something even more remarkable — and you’re already in it.
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Believing is Seeing
She asked me a question I couldn’t answer. Not quickly, anyway. “Why follow the rules when rich folks don’t?” Gloria deserved better than a bumper sticker. So I tried.
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Love Pursues
Our truck slid off a jungle bridge, plunging us into the river. Tires blew. But the frame? It held. Our story doesn’t start at the bridge. Find out more. Read Love Pursues. Five Minute Observations.
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Acceptance
You either accept or quit. I had to accept I might never love again. Then I stopped fighting. This is the result.
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Love Out Loud
There’s a phrase I keep hearing lately. It sounds generous. Open-handed. Every once in a while, it is.
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One Word: Friend
Jesus called Judas “friend.” Not sinner. Not betrayer. Friend. Before you say a word about anyone — do you actually know them?
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Death of a Taste Bud — Listen to Me
California Pizza Kitchen. Barbeque chicken. Cauliflower crust. Way, way too hot! One bite. One bump on my tongue. And a whole essay about being unseen. New on Five Minute Observations.
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On Time
Would God really bring me halfway around the world to die in a foreign country? Find out today. Five Minute Observations.
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The Wall That Isn’t There
Charlie wiped away a tear. “She kept showing up. She didn’t have to. But she did.” His first sponsor was a Black woman from Sikeston. She was the first person who ever loved him for who he was.
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With Me When It’s Scariest
I was five the first time I dialed a phone. A yellow rotary on the wall. My grandmother’s number. My dad behind me on the barstool. I’ve been dialing scary numbers ever since.