Finding My Faith Identity in a Strawberry Field

How our simple family trip to pick strawberries reminded me of our identity as God’s own, and how He seeks us in the world the same way we hunt for the reddest, ripest berries in the patch.

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Four Key Ways to Love Someone with Depression

Have you ever tried to love someone with depression but it feels like there’s a wall between you? Or maybe it’s you who has depression, and while your heart longs to love well, the depression feels like a barricade so thick and high you can’t possibly overcome it. Here are four ways to offer love despite depression.

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How knowing He’s ‘God of all’ helps those who suffer

A blog on finding God in the good and the bad.

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Knowing God beyond the fear

A blog on understanding God’s goodness is mightier than His wrath.

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Will joy really come after my pain?

A blog on “getting through” in Jesus.

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Can I truly be ‘clean’ forever?

A blog on fresh starts in Jesus.

How exercise helps me love myself as God loves me

Daily exercise has been helping me understand that taking the time to breathe, to stretch, to feel the glorious wonder of muscles and tendons and skin all working together in a beautiful dance of flexibility and rhythmic movement, is a beautiful reminder of the blessings God has given us. As Psalm 139:14 reminds me about the Lord, “I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

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Learning to cling to God

Instead of clinging to God in seasons of trouble and pain, we often seek relief elsewhere. And it works for a while… But then the waves begin again, and we find ourselves floundering once more in a repeating cycle, lost at sea and seeking relief anywhere but in the One who can grant that relief. That’s when learning to cling to God is the only thing left—and the only thing that really works, in the end.