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Healing from toxic church – seeking what is precious, and truly God

A suspension bridge spans a canyon between a tall cliff and a much taller one. From the taller cliff, we see tiny people in the distance, setting out single file to pass over the bridge that will take them to a much higher place.

Our Passover: Knowing and going with Christ

  • Post published:May 11, 2025
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:May 21, 2025

From its start, Passover has met God’s people at the intersection of pain and gain, and urged, “Go with God. He is so worth it.” A story of Christ our Passover.

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Sisters uncover cruelty hidden in plain sight

  • Post published:March 23, 2025
  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:May 28, 2025

Decades ago, Sarah and Angelina Grimké told the truth with compassion and courage. Still today, the sisters can help us uncover cruelty hidden in plain sight.

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Isn’t it time to leave the past behind?

  • Post published:February 8, 2025
  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:May 23, 2025

God wants to lift from our shoulders staggering burdens that generations have needlessly carried. He wants to show us the way to send away the past that binds.

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O say, can you see?

  • Post published:July 11, 2024
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:March 12, 2025

I did not dream that, in my lifetime, leaders in the US church would convince so many to embrace such skewed views of God, Christianity and country.

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See! I am doing a new thing

  • Post published:June 13, 2024
  • Post category:Living Life/My Story
  • Post last modified:May 29, 2025

Nine months ago, I did not see renovation in my future. Now, I’m neck deep in refreshing my website. And I’m marveling at God’s renewing work in our lives.

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A spirit like Caleb’s – fully following God

  • Post published:February 14, 2024
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church/My Story
  • Post last modified:June 8, 2025

At a crucial moment in my life, Henry Blackaby and Caleb of old encouraged me: Regardless which way anyone else is rowing, you be filled with following God.

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Messy New Year

  • Post published:December 27, 2023
  • Post category:Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:June 13, 2025

The challenge in any time of seasonal shift is not to let the messiness keep you from ending what needs to be ended and starting what needs to be begun.

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When evil seems invincible: Two surprising sources of hope

  • Post published:November 9, 2023
  • Post category:From: The Esther Blessing
  • Post last modified:June 13, 2025

Where two malignant narcissists ruled, so did ruthlessness. Where evil seemed invincible, Mordecai and Esther seized on two surprising sources of hope and life.

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Trauma and truth-seeking: Desperation, spirit, life

  • Post published:March 8, 2023
  • Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
  • Post last modified:May 29, 2025

You pursue truth differently when you're desperate, when your life hinges on what you find – and your spirit is released to resonate with the Spirit of God.

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Tessa and the lion’s den

  • Post published:December 29, 2022
  • Post category:My Story
  • Post last modified:March 12, 2025

My finicky and beloved cat Tessa lived for 17 years. She inspired this post one night in 2004 – the year I first found myself in a den with lions that tear people apart.

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