Category: discipleship
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› Read more: The Inner Circle: Parenting Teenagers (and the Teenager in Me)
The Inner Circle: Parenting Teenagers (and the Teenager in Me)
I never intended to be hanging out with high schoolers outside of my own. I still feel the ringing sense…
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› Read more: Hosting the Lord of Hosts
Hosting the Lord of Hosts
I am not a natural host, as the domestic arts are usually not my strong suit. It takes work for…
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› Read more: A Desert Beauty
A Desert Beauty
“Brown. Everything is brown,” I remember saying to my husband when we first drove around our new city of San…
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› Read more: A Redeemer Who Runs
A Redeemer Who Runs
I’ve always loved Isaiah 30. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve studied this chapter, yet the Spirit continually…
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› Read more: Dealing with Disappointments
Dealing with Disappointments
This one is for those who feel a little behind on dreaming and goal-planning for a new year. This one…
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› Read more: Pattern over Perfection
Pattern over Perfection
It’s January 2. Some of you parents are already feeling beat up and discouraged as your perfect plans for family…
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› Read more: What Mary Knew: Lessons in Mothering
What Mary Knew: Lessons in Mothering
If your family is anything like mine, Pentatonix has been crowding your home with the rhetorical question “Mary, did you…
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› Read more: Melville, Mildness, and Transformation
Melville, Mildness, and Transformation
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about Herman Melville, which I know sounds more than a little odd. Reading Philip…
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› Read more: To Those Who Feel like They are Going in Circles
To Those Who Feel like They are Going in Circles
I’m not exactly sure what I thought my forties would look like, but I think I had the unspoken, almost…
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› Read more: Spotting and Speaking Beauty
Spotting and Speaking Beauty
In his Nobel lecture, Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes another his fellow Russian writer Dostoevsky who said, “Beauty will save the world.”…