The Jesus Gypsy

Tag: Obedience

  • victory celebration

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      I am a sucker for baptisms.  They get me every time.  I don’t know why I even bother to wear makeup on Baptism Sunday because the sobbing is so severe, God help my mascara.  I so love the symbolism of being washed clean, of being made new, of being raised up in new life. I just can’t ever…

  • the when

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    Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. Matthew 6:33   As we continue to unpack what it means to be deeply rooted in relationship with God, we are looking closely at the basic principles of Christianity; the Who/What/When/Where/How/Why of faith.  So far, we have…

  • 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…

  • that time I was accidentally creepy

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    I once used salsa to try to bribe a girl into being my friend. No, this wasn’t some 4th grade will you sit with me at the lunch table kind of thing.  But it was a I think you are super cool and awesome and I would like to be your friend and I heard that…

  • radical

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    I’m a “you’re not the boss of me” kind of girl.  I always have been.  I am the girl who, growing up, did the exact opposite of what I was told, every. single. time.  Lessons are learned well but the hard way when you live life like that.  I do not naturally have an obedient…