TweetThis is the last of my three-part (for now) series on the power of grace. I hope you’ve come even just a little bit closer to knowing deeply the richness of God’s grace. But before I write anything more, I want you to watch this video and do your best to emotionally engage. Feel it as deeply as you [...]
TweetIn my last post, I shared about how I’ve struggled to boldly speak truth to others because I fear messing it up, even if my intentions are good. This blog post is going to deal with how we can respond to difficult responses to our truth-telling when we acted in ignorance or foolishness, even if [...]
TweetThis post marks the kickoff to a three-part blog series on the power of grace. But I intend on blogging about grace for a long time to come, so don’t think that I’m going to stay at three parts forever. I hope the series would rock your world and free your soul. To start, I would like [...]
TweetAt our Southside New Life Team gathering a couple nights, we reflected on a difficult reality of the Christmas season: misrepresenations of Jesus. At the time of year when America collectively celebrates something that at least has its origins in the birth of the Messiah, our nation’s misconceptions of Jesus become considerably more public. It results in [...]
TweetThe last week I spent in Ann Arbor was amazing. At 10 pm Thursday night, I gathered with the Southside New Life Team (at 25+ strong…in really cold weather) on top of the Thompson Street parking structure to pray over our dorm and our campus. The view from up there is so beautiful…seeing Ann Arbor all lit up [...]
TweetI experienced conflict with someone very close to me the other day. Later that night, I was reminded of God’s deep and perfect love for me and my inability to love another as He loves me. And so I wrote, because that’s what I do when I’m feeling strong emotion. I imagine C.S. Lewis may have been [...]
TweetEmotionally, I feel like a high school girl right now. What I mean by that is my emotions have been swinging between two extremes these last couple of weeks. For those of you who don’t know, just a couple weeks ago I began raising financial support full-time to be a missionary at New Life Church at the University [...]
TweetIf you didn’t already know, I was raised in a gay household. The uniqueness of my childhood and adolescence has done much to shape me in ways positive and negative, realized and soon-to-be-realized. God has undeniably done remarkable and supernatural things in my life and story, and now I hope that he will work evermore through my story. [...]
TweetIn my last post, I mentioned that my StrengthsFinder evaluation was scary accurate. And since some of you seem to enjoy knowing me, I thought I’d give you their evaluation. Let me know if you agree. My top 5: Strategic, Activator, Futuristic, Analytical, Maximizer In every area, the StrengthsFinder evaluation tells you a sort of [...]
TweetThe title probably sounds offensive if you haven’t read Part 1, and you probably won’t understand any background of this post unless you’ve read Part 2. Just sayin’… I spent much of Part 2 explaining my belief that most skeptics (most humans, for that matter) aren’t establishing their religious philosophy on purely intellectual grounds. Let me clarify that a bit, since [...]