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Steve Jobs and the Missional Mom: Why the Church Needs To Get “Crazy” Back

Helen Lee, author of “The Missional Mom: Living With Purpose at Home and In the World,” wrote a fabulous post today about how Steve Jobs relates to missional living. The world needs more of the “crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers,” as Steve Jobs referred to himself. Missional living, in my mind, is all about […]

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God, Girls, and Redemption: The Girl Effect Is Good Theology! Plus, a FREE GIVEAWAY!

“My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. For he hath remembered the lowly estate of his handmaiden…He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree…He hath filled the hungry with good things.” -Mary of Nazareth, Luke 1:46-53 Have you heard of […]

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Are Disabilities a Result of Sin? Special Needs, Fallen Nature, and Mommy-Grief

I recently discovered Amy Julia Becker, whose new book, “A Good and Perfect Gift”, is described as “a spiritual memoir that chronicles Amy Julia Becker’s journey through her daughter Penny’s first years of life. Top of her class at Princeton, Amy Julia Becker always imagined that her children would turn out just like her. So when her […]

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Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

I hate it when inspiration fizzles. Yesterday, I had a brilliant (if I do say so myself) blog post about the cost of discipleship burning burning a hole in my psyche, but couldn’t find the time to type it out. Today, I tried to write it up, but it just. Wasn’t. Happening. I HATE it […]

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Is It Controversial That I’m Not Down With Killing People?

Less than an hour ago, Georgia executed Troy Davis, even though 7 out of the 9 eyewitnesses recanted or changed their testimony regarding his guilt. Amnesty International, which has been protesting the case vehemently, was so overwhelmed with traffic that their site went down. The petition they posted on Facebook was unsignable as well–I know, I […]

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Famine, God’s Glory, and a Bigger Prayer

“Why can we trust God, no matter what happens?” I’m reading The God of Promise and the Life of Faith by Scott J. Hafemann for my biblical theology class, and that question is the title of one of his chapters. (The next couple chapters are “Why does God wait so long to make things right?” […]

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The Proverbs 31 Woman, Theology, and Me: Part 1

I’ve had an ambiguous relationship with the Proverbs 31 Woman over the years. When I was a baby, my Auntie Lynn gave me a plaque that hung in my room until I left for college. It was beautiful, with a puffy, padded frame covered in peach calico and rimmed with lace. Inside, my name and […]

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The Proverbs 31 Woman, Theology, and Me: Part 3

In Part 1, I talked about my early understandings (and misunderstandings) of the Proverbs 31 Woman. In Part 2, I shared some of the things I have learned about the theology underlying Proverbs 31. And in Part 3, I’m going to make my point (I promise). First of all, to wrap up my previous posts, […]

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The Proverbs 31 Woman, Theology, and Me: Part 2

In Part 1 of this post, I talked about my early thoughts about the Proverbs 31 Woman: from my childhood perception of her as a wise, kind instructor that I should emulate, to the law-ridden measuring stick of Christian womanhood that I could never live up to (and was regularly hit over the head with). […]

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What is Idolatry?

From one of my textbooks, “The God of Promise and the Life of Faith” by Scott J. Hafemann: “…In other words, idolatry is the futile way of thinking that results from mankind’s failure to honor the One who has revealed himself through creation ‘as God.’ To honor something ‘as God’ is to recognize it as […]

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Prayer and the Discipline of Ignoring Hornets

I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time focusing long enough to pray. Oh, I talk to God, but all too often my needs and concerns wind up tumbling all over each other like starving puppies scrambling for their mama, a machine-gun spray of frantic prayer requests peppering heaven. I sound more […]

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It’s a scandal, it’s an outrage…

Wow, it’s been a LOOOONG time since I blogged! But today I felt compelled to blog about a common, debilitating condition among Christians (and non-Christians, too): outrage. Now, outrage is not always a bad thing. There are plenty of things in this world to be outraged about, and a healthy dose of righteous indignation is […]

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Tithing Time

Aaron and I have never been very good about tithing. We’ve tithed in spurts, but most of the time we’ve just thrown whatever we had crumpled up in our pockets into the offering basket, mumbling something about being in debt, about being broke, about giving time instead of money. (For the record, this is not my desk, […]

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Equilibrium

I think I figured something out tonight. I’ve been struggling a lot with balance lately, trying to figure out what to do, how to do it, how much of it to do, and when. Something is going on inside me, stirring the waters in my soul, and I can’t touch bottom or figure out which […]

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Living Intentionally

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to live intentionally, to be a good steward of all the things we’ve been blessed with. It’s just so easy to drift through life reacting to circumstances, responding to emotions, and wearing deeper and deeper ruts down the path of least resistance. But God has really been convicting me […]

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