Lord, I Need You
“Lord, I need you.” Her prayer was simple, but it helped Dawn stay grounded when life was spinning out of control.
Finding Comfort in Jesus When Your Heart Is Broken
Finding comfort in Jesus works because only the Creator of our hearts can put the pieces back together again. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in…
My Mental Health Struggle and Learning to Change My Thinking
Lauren Correa shares her mental health struggle and how God helped her change her thinking in this post on Candidly Christian. When I was about 30 years old, an episode of psychosis led to a mental health hospitalization and a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. It also left my life in disarray – close friends abandoned…
Living Like Mary When You’re Wired Like Martha
Is living like Mary something you struggle with? If so, you might relate to this post by Leslie Tally. Is it blasphemous to dread a piece of scripture? Unholy, maybe? I don’t know what to call it, but I know how it feels… that deep, gut-punch sensation that settles into my soul as each rustling…
3 Ways Christian Introverts Can Love Like Jesus
Do you ever feel intimidated by the call to love your neighbors? If so, you are definitely not alone. In this post, Joanne shares three ways Christian introverts can love like Jesus. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. Luke 6:32 (NIV)…
The Holy Spirit: My Timely Traveling Companion Through Fear
This article about the Holy Spirit was written by Shirley Desmond Jackson Forcing myself to slow my breathing, I glanced down at my map app. “Fifteen minutes. Only fifteen minutes to the airport. I can handle anything for fifteen minutes,” I promised myself. All the while I tried to push away the reality that in…
Quiet Time with God (& Toddlers)
Alisa O’Donnell has found it challenging to find quiet time with God amidst mothering a toddler and everything else in life. She shares more in this post. I have an energetic, vivacious toddler who loves to copy mama, play with mama, and generally be attached to mama. I savor these moments as best I can,…
How to Engage in Spiritual Warfare and Emerge Victorious
In this post, Jaime Hampton gets candid about how to engage in spiritual warfare, the lies she’s believed about it, and how she’s become victorious in this area.
Living with a Hardened Heart
Tara wants to hear God say, “well done good and faithful servant” – but she realized a hardened heart made her more of a Modern Day Pharisee. This is her story. I recently wrote about the Modern-day Pharisee. I bared my soul as this is an area of my life in which I was struggling…
Conflict Resolution: How Learning to Be Right and Wrong Saved My Marriage
This post about conflict resolution, Candid guest and marriage therapist, Kia Gutierrez, gets candid and shares how she handles conflict in her own marriage.
Loaves and Fishes
He gave what he had to Jesus, but it wasn’t really about the loaves and fishes it all. After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on…
Struggling to Focus?
Do you ever have those moments when you’re struggling to focus? At work, in conversations, and even in prayer, your mind seems to be everywhere and nowhere at once. Struggling to Focus Recently, I was talking with a friend about this. We were both struggling to get anything done despite our best attempts. Instead of…
