On Shame and Healing
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 …
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On Toleration & Celebration
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 …
Read More →How My Fear Became Faith
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 …
Read More →a very good place to start
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 …
Read More →the what
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 …
Read More →good friday
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 …
Read More →an onion, a flashlight, and a bar of soap
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 …
Read More →a song worth seeing
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 Read More →
a million sin-miles away (my testimony)
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 …
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