In my first post, Hope for Depressed Hearts I told the story of how I got sucked into depression and promised to show you a way out of your own. In the next couple of posts, we will focus on how I got stuck and depressed and ways you can avoid it. My first mistake I hung up the …
Hope for Depressed Hearts
What would it take to shatter your faith? To drive your emotional, mental, and spiritual life into a pit of depression? Last year, I almost found out. After a suffocating season in the hope-sucking Upside Down, the Spirit presses me to share the story of God’s love, my failure, and the unflickering faithfulness of a God who can be …
Leaders in Transition: Three Steps Closer to Transformation
This week, I’m thrilled to be a guest blogger on Voice of Courage as I share my story around a recent leadership transition and the heart lessons I discovered in making a new start. What happens when we allow time to pace and see God’s transformation in the season? Leadership transitions can be drawn out and difficult, at least in my experience. So …
Trusting God in Painful Places
(First published in 2016.) Are you trusting God? If you had asked me last week if I was trusting God in painful places, I probably would have said, “Yes” without much hesitation. I mean God has taken me through some lengthy trust-testing trials that have demanded a lot of me and my family. No doubt about it. But recently, God challenged that …
Three Reasons for Christians to Vote
This post has been updated with fresh content for the June 5th state-wide direct primary election. If God is ultimately in control of the world and has a specific plan for it, why should Christians vote? Here are three reasons to consider: 1) God calls each of us to play a part in His plan as He brings global events together …