The Jesus Gypsy

Tag: forgiveness

  • On Shame and Healing

    On Shame and Healing

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    How does hiding ignite shame? How does honesty invite healing? I recently explored these questions with my friend Shannon as part of our Summer Book Club on Jesus Over Everything by Lisa Whittle. A few weeks ago, we had a great Instagram Live discussion on Lisa’s chapter 7: Honesty over Hiding. (If you missed Part…

  • On Toleration & Celebration

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    I believe God loves me but often struggle with the idea that he LIKES me. I trust fully in Jesus and am thankful to receive his forgiveness, but I sometimes catch myself slinking around in the corners of the Kingdom hoping no one will notice how much I don’t belong. Deep down, I hold an…

  • How My Fear Became Faith

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    Fear was my father’s favorite game and one I learned to play at four years old. With gleaming green eyes and a wicked sense of humor, my father was a force. His family had always been trouble and trash, but he was equally handsome and charming. My mother met and married him in a whirlwind,…

  • a very good place to start

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    Before I repost some of my other favorite pieces, it makes sense to first retell the story of how this journey as The Jesus Gypsy began. It is, quite frankly, my very favorite story to tell anyway (I am a sucker for good love and redemption stories, and this one is both.) 😉 Plus, I believe that when we…

  • the what

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    For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast… Ephesians 2:8-9 As we explore being rooted in relationship with God, we have been working through the basic beliefs of Christianity; the Who/What/When/Where/How/Why of…

  • good friday

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    Good Friday Who am I, that you’d suffer and die That your innocent blood would let So that I’d be redeemed and now be free To be the person I am not yet The nails that pierced your hands and feet Were my sins you chose to bear Beaten and bruised on my behalf With…

  • an onion, a flashlight, and a bar of soap

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      Jesus is not who you think He is. But if it is any consolation, He isn’t who I thought He was, either. The more I read about him in scripture, the more I sit and talk with him in the morning over coffee, the more I cry out to him in the middle of…

  • a song worth seeing

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    As I mentioned in my last post, I was recently asked to review and blog about a movie that will be coming out September 26th called The Song.  This whole “reviewing things” is a niche I accidentally stumbled into after getting to guest blog with Jen Hatmaker and review her re-release of Interrupted in a little…

  • a million sin-miles away (my testimony)

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    As I mentioned in my last post, I recently got to share my testimony with my new church family at Austin Ridge Bible Church.  In doing so, I realized I had never really never shared the story of how I came to faith on this blog and thought that should be remedied immediately – because the thing is…