Even After

Praise God for His love…even after. Cuz Lord knows I need it and He gives it…freely without question!

Grace Waves

Over the past weekend, I was home with two sick kids during a snowstorm and—I’ll admit it—we watched a lot of movies. I tried fun games, hot chocolate, cookie baking, and dancing around in the living room, but somehow all of that only took two hours, with a very long 46 hours to go. So I just accepted the impending mom guilt and turned on Netflix.

The good news is that God loves using those moments when I’m wallowing in guilt to lay His Words on my heart. This weekend, it was all about the happily ever after. Movie after movie had the implied happily ever after we all know and love… for the good guys. But what about the bad guys?

Because here’s the thing: In Biblical terms, we are not the good guys. No, we are the sinners. The ones who ate the forbidden fruit, rebelled against God…

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Loving Me To Love Her

Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. Ephesians 5:28 & 29 Wow, for some reason this verse just popped out of nowhere to me today.…

There Are No Leftovers

This…this right here is not how I have viewed the waiting, a status I am in right now…
“The waiting can be favor too – you may not be ready for the fullness of your purpose on earth right this second, and if it were given to you, it would be incredibly destructive because the tools you need to steward it have not yet been built.”

Hannah, thank you so much for this wonderful post and teaching an “old” man a new way of looking at things!

Beautiful done and worded so elegantly.

With Songs of Joy

Recently, I’ve found myself living in a perpetual state of orphan-minded, poverty-stricken brokenness. It is really not fun, but an incredibly important realization has struck me about these few weeks of mountain top highs with God and valley lows with Him too – sometimes your ideas about God have to be broken and reformed to go deeper with Him because we all have faulty theology to a degree, and man is He is breaking off some of mine.

He is not a God of lack but of abundance.

I tend to feel the need to hide from Him – I see His love poured out over others, and immediately assume I am unwanted, unfavored, and a bother to Him because maybe He loves those people more. And it breaks His heart that I default to believing that. Favor poured out on someone else doesn’t mean less favor for you –…

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For God So Loved The World

Always remember that nothing you have done in your life is too bad for God's love and forgiveness.  He loved you so much that He did send his one and only Son to die on the cross to pay for your sins. He loves YOU that much. Accept His act of love. Accept what Christ…