Category: Faith, Discernment & Spiritual Growth
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Teaching Our Children More Than Bible Stories: Teaching Them the Love of Christ
Teaching children Scripture is important, but they also need to understand the love of Christ, His sacrifice, and what it means to live in fellowship with God. There is something beautiful about teaching a child the Bible. We teach them that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” We tell them about…
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When the Covering Is Gone: What Jehoash and Jehoiada Teach Us About Personal Faith
There is something about the story of Jehoash that I cannot stop thinking about. His life begins with preservation. He should have died. When Athaliah saw that her son Ahaziah was dead, she attempted to destroy the royal descendants and seize the throne of Judah. But one child escaped. Jehoash. He was taken from among…
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When You Have Nothing to Say: Learning to Wait on God in Quiet Seasons
A Quiet Reflection from Conversations to Clarity Not every season requires constant productivity or endless words. A quiet reflection on waiting, inspiration, and trusting God through the silent seasons of life. There are seasons when words come easily. Ideas seem to flow without effort, conversations feel alive, and inspiration arrives before we’ve even asked for…
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The Bride Price, the Circumcised Heart, and the Bridegroom Who Paid It All
What David, Michal, and Christ Reveal About Covenant Love As I was reading through the life of David recently, something stood out that I had never fully considered before. Saul promised David his daughter Michal as his wife. But there was a cost. Saul required one hundred Philistine foreskins as the bride price. Instead of…
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Your Last Is Not Your Last: When God Turns Lost Into Legacy
Two women in Scripture stood at what looked like the end of everything. One said curse God and die. The other said we will eat it, and die. Same words — completely different hearts. ✨
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Why Sinning Against God Is Personal: Why His Response Is Always Mercy
I was reading recently when something stopped me mid-sentence. “Our problem is our sin against him.” I sat with that for a moment. And then, almost immediately, I heard the pushback. The kind I’ve heard before, maybe even thought myself at some point. Why does God seem so unfair? We sin, we mess up, and…
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A Lesson on Stewarding the Body
When the Temple of God Became Personal The other day I was listening to a conversation between Jackie Hill Perry and Preston Perry on their episode about sex and stewarding the body. Somewhere around the twenty-eight minute mark, Preston began explaining something that made my mind stop for a moment. He referenced 1 Corinthians 6…
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When You Feel Like Giving Up but Keep Going Anyway
There Is Still Hope Under the Sun Have you ever felt like giving up? Not in a dramatic way. Not for attention. Just quietly tired. Quietly overwhelmed. Quietly wondering what the point is. There are moments when the weight of life feels so heavy that disappearing seems easier than continuing. You do not actually want…
Conversations to clarity 