In English Lessons: The Crooked Path of Growing Toward Faith, Andrea Lucado, a born and bread Texan and preacher’s daughter, rehashes a year’s experience studying at Oxford-Brookes for her Master’s degree. As I’ve been living in England for the past few years, I appreciated her take on being an ...
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A Book Review: English Lessons: The Crooked Path of Growing Toward Faith by Andrea Lucado
Bloom out of your negative self-image (because it’s spring, okay?)
There was a time when damn near everything scared me – on some level. I’ve always been paranoid – I could be running down the friendliest country lane on a sunny afternoon and still glance over my shoulder every couple of minutes to be sure I wasn’t going to be jumped. Or, worse, a white work ...
Are you striving to be Christian or Christ-like?
Recently I came across a quote by writer Ami Loper, “Hustle will never accomplish more than obedience.” Not to be dramatic, but it genuinely struck me right then and there that I tend to confuse discipline for obedience. Let’s be honest, obedience is difficult to grasp. I try in my own strength ...
Permission to wear the world loosely and walk simply
Happy new year, friends! Over wine at Christmas, Stuart’s family and I went around the room and shared one bit of information about our line of work that isn’t well known. His aunt, a psychologist, said something that stuck with my introspective heart: we all have an inner conflict going the ...
Why you should ditch your phone during Christmas
Today, I had another post planned completely. I had it all planned out; I even had a few hundred words written in addition to my outline. Instead, I’ll start my post by telling you a story. I woke up yesterday morning, happy and relaxed as a clam. The sun was shining through the window (hey, ...
An open letter to Christian bloggers – you are not called to blog
An open letter to the Christian blogger. You are not called to blog. Our world is very broken. Just open any news website; you will plainly see the suffering in this world. It always has been and always will be until the Lord’s return. When I think about half of what I know to be going on in ...