Creating A Legacy of Beauty From Ashes
We are not bound to the generational narrative that has been tied to our family. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we get to leave a new legacy […]
Category: Faith
Settling In: An invitation to allow God to work within your home
The endearing comforts, the endless tasks—there is purpose in all of it. Home is where God intentionally works his peace and purposes into my daily, ordinary routines. […]
Where To Run For Refuge: Learning To Dwell In The Lord
Where To Run For Refuge Learning To Dwell In The Lord “How lovely is your dwelling place.” Psalm 84:1 Do you long for a place to dwell? A place to rest where you can feel safe? What does a dwelling place with the Lord look like? David talks about God being our dwelling place in […]
Finding Peace In The Midst of Turmoil
Finding Peace In The Midst of Turmoil Strategies for reestablishing peace within yourself when unsettling emotions suddenly arise. Have you ever struggled to feel at home within yourself? Have negative thoughts and emotions ever bombarded you like foreign invaders, triggering fears that left you unsettled? When we experience negative emotions to a new extreme, or […]
When Obedience Doesn’t Bring Blessing
If you’ve grown up in the church, you’ve probably heard the phrase “obedience brings blessing.” We often internalize this to mean if you serve the Lord and obey Him, then your prayers will be answered, and essentially, you’ll “get what your heart… […]
Choosing to Rest Instead of Rush
Choosing to Rest Instead of Rush Slowing Down as Obedience Saying no was not something I once thought of as obedience. But isn’t everything I own the Lord’s, including my time? Often we ask God to open doors and he does, but then he may shut that same door later on and we don’t realize […]
Why Every Season Matters
Why Every Season Matters How every moment is part of your purpose. “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10). Have you ever felt like your life is on repeat? Every day the same old thing, and the […]
Knowing God Wants You
Knowing God Wants You His relentless pursuit to call you home I was in middle school when I sat in the church classroom. The chairs, red with yellow stripes, sputtered dust as I sat down. The room was closed off by an accordion partition. I sat there, consuming Dots, looking at the instructor tell me […]
When God Feels Slow
When God Feels Slow Don died shortly after he celebrated fifteen years of sobriety. I was his daughter-in-law, but sometimes I was also his pastor. He would attend mass at the Catholic Church, and then he would come to hear me preach. He would slip in the back pew quietly during the music without my […]
Identifying Your Unique Purpose with Brooke Peterson
Learning to hear God’s voice […]