My sister had a sleepover at a hotel downtown. We walked into the lobby and I immediately notice a tall woman in a fantastical dress. It was a striking dress. Pink, full mid-length skirt, petite flowers everywhere. It’s a grown-up version of every little girl’s dream dress. It’s a dress fit for fairies frolicking in […]
A Different Relationship
God, show me how to live this new life. I don’t want to go back to my first love for You. I want growth, and I have grown. I’m older, hopefully wiser, definitely different. I want an older, wiser, and different relationship with You and understanding of You. One day, in a moment of introspection, […]
Quiet Passion: Worship
I find it kind of ironic that a Pentecostal would call worship a quiet passion. Aren’t we on the crazy side? đ But like I wrote yesterday, it’s the heart that God looks at. That goes for worship too. Bottom line is whether we worship loudly or quietly, our hearts have to be in the […]
Quiet Passion: Prayer
“So do you like pray a lot?” Jesse asked. “No,” I answered. Silence. “Yeah,” he said slowly. “You know there are people who are like, ‘I’m a prayer warrior.’ But what does that really mean? And who are you to say that?” It was one of those moments that reminded me how awkward I can […]
Quiet Passion: the Word
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” Romans 10:17. I took this literally one day. I have Bible reading plans in YouVersion, and I decided to start listening to them instead of reading them. Can I back track? The hard truth is there was a time when I stopped reading […]
Owning Your Faith
Today I went to an Operation Christmas Child kick off event/pep rally, and I saw many people from many churches exhibit their passion for the simple act of packing a shoe box. There were people there who have been packing shoe boxes since they were kids. There were people there who would travel for hours […]
The Prodigal’s Road Home
It’s a familiar story. The prodigal son takes his inheritance, leaves home, squanders everything, gets a job feeding pigs while he’s starving, realizes his mistake, goes back home to work as a servant, but is welcomed by his father with love and celebration (Luke 15:11-32). But the story doesn’t tell us what happens to the […]