This is what happened when I served as onsite leader for a Beth Moore Living Proof Live event. It’s a peek into celebrity culture, the exploitation and manipulation of women and abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention.
I was Southern Baptist until church leaders pummeled and guilted me to choose loyalty to the SBC above all else. Then I began to see behind the façade.
In Moses’ day, the Lord went to great lengths to make a way to dwell in the midst of his people. Now, he’s made the way for his glory to dwell within us.
You may come more than once to the place where it looks as though everything has come to an end. But God means there shall be more life than ever. – T.A. Sparks
Jesus died and rose again so we can live in two worlds at the same time – the physical one, and the unseen one we see by the Spirit.
A true story from the past it seems important to tell. Four questions about the present it seems important to ask.
One wintry day, I finished the rough draft of a book manuscript titled, “The Esther Blessing.” The next morning, the God of all grace celebrated with me.
Communion, the Lord's Supper, God's covenant meal. As we observe the ritual – and mull the picture it paints – do we find mystery and life?
Ultimately, collectively, the church quenched the Spirit’s voice in order to embrace the society’s values. The church began to preach - and to try to live - a righteousness unencumbered with justice. But. God.
What one bewildered, battered woman found, and dared to write, before patterns from the past began to replay in the present in such a visible, alarming way.