Depression is hell.
For some, it looks like gathering clouds. For others, a black hole. For some, it feels like dread or fear or hopelessness. For others, it feels more like guilt —
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You are chosen (a prophetic word for New Room 2018).
This word was given me to share with those attending the closing service of New Room 2018. I share it here in an abbreviated form so that if you were
Baptism and the Holy Spirit
One summer, the women of our church hosted an in-town mission trip. Every day, we visited a different mission location and served in whatever way we could. The last day,
Remembering in the Wild
Can you begin to imagine what it must have been like when the spirit of the Lord passed through Egypt and in every house someone died? Can you imagine the
What no one told us about our bodies
No one told us we’d need a solid theology of the body if we’re going to live a bold and fearless life. No one told us how important it would
Lord, bend us.
In 1903, Evan Roberts was 25 years old. He was a Christian, coal miner, and student who began to pray for God to fill him with the Holy Spirit. In
Dealing with the unsaved parts of your life
A friend who counsels through healing prayer shared a story a while back of working with a middle-aged woman who had a form of dissociation (we used to call it multiple
Hope for a hopeless marriage
Another guest post by Angel Davis, my friend and collaborator in ministry. In this blog she shares how her marriage was transformed by her own decision to lean in and
The bad news about exile (or, why vision matters)
Imagine you are born wearing a pair of yellow-tinted sunglasses (this analogy on how we encounter new cultures comes from Michael Mercil). In addition to having arms and legs, eyes
#metoo
God can redeem anything. Any wound, rejection, loss … anything. Last week, the story of Harvey Weinstein’s gross perversion was published, resulting in a groundswell of testimony on social media
It’s a lot easier to be a hypocrite than it is to be holy.
(Today, I’m giving this space to Leah Hartman, who I met at New Room. Read on …) “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye
Haters gonna hate.
Let’s talk about hate. In the first few verses of the Bible, we meet our God in his trinitarian wholeness. The Father creates, the Son speaks, the Spirit hovers. This
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