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How Searching for My Nephew Gave New Meaning to Psalm 139

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In and through the Darkness of Depression

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I Dare You: Buy the Flowers

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May He Put You Together

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A Love Story: the Legacy of My Grandmother

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What You Just Can’t Do on Social Media

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High-waisted Jeans and
Emotional Muffin Tops

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My Early Morning Sisterhood

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Walking Arm in Arm

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What’s Your Word?

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Praying for All of Us

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I Dare You: Buy the Flowers

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When You Feel Rejected and Unseen

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A Word for Those Who Feel Unseen

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In and through the Darkness of Depression

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When You’re in the Presence of Grief

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A Call to Courage!
(and a Community Survey)

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Ride with Your Hands Up

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Learning a Little Courage from Our Kids

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Today's Post

Forgive but Don’t Forget

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We were childhood friends, college roommates. We shared the carpool lane on our commute and were coworkers in ministry. We were best friends. At least I thought we were. I remember the last conversation we had. She needed space. I needed approval. She needed space. I demanded answers. That conversation was nearly fifteen years ago, and we haven’t talked since. I’ve rehearsed that relationship over and over in my mind. What did I do wrong? What did I do right? What was her fault? What was mine? Her absence left a gaping wound, and the rejection left me raw and angry. I knew the only way ...

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When I Pray for You: a Parent’s Heartbeat

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My second child is a little girl, and I joke that she has been strong-willed and stubborn from her earliest days in my womb. I was incredibly sick during that pregnancy, throwing up sometimes six times a day. I was hospitalized twice for fluids during my first trimester. It was as awful as it sounds, and some days my only prayer was, Please let me survive this.  At thirty-two weeks, we learned she was breech. We prayed she would turn, but with every check-up, she remained butt down. As the ...

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The Search for a Church that Feels Like Home

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Slightly hard of hearing in his Sunday suit and tie, the smiling usher boomed a greeting into the cold and cavernous narthex. “You forgot to set your clocks ahead, right?” Immediately, the disjointed pieces of that chaotic Sunday morning fell into place. The full parking lot, the prevailing hush — yes, we were an hour late for church, which meant we had arrived just in time for the sermon conclusion and the last amen. Wearing our awkwardness like ill-fitting choir robes, we exited as ...

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LifeWay Picked OUR Study for Their
Spring Online Bible Study!

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We have big news, friends! Remember the (in)courage Bible study, Just Open the Door, written by our contributor Jen Schmidt? Well this spring, LifeWay Women is featuring it as their Online Bible Study DONE BY THOUSANDS OF WOMEN! Join LifeWay for the Just Open the Door online Bible study this spring! Over seven sessions, you'll look to Jesus as your model for hospitality. Discover how He lived a life full of interruptions, yet always welcomed people and invited them to follow Him. Learn to ...

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