2 Ways Adoption is Changing Me (part 2)

I enjoy helping people. I love to sit down across the table from another woman and listen to her story. Listen to what she needs. What she really needs. And offer her what I have to give… Jesus, his gospel, my own experience, the things I’ve learned from Scripture and from life. In fact, I

Day 21: Redemptive words

Yesterday you asked your friends some questions. One of the questions was, “How would you describe me in a few words?” Hopefully you found someone who knows you well, and you wrote down what they told you. Today your question is simple: What do you wish they would have said?? That may sound like a

Day 20: Ask your friends

Normally I teach this material on calling in a class or small discipleship group setting. Over the years, the benefit to a group setting has become very clear to me. I have learned an important truth: Your calling is best discovered in community. Often the people close to us know us better than we know

Good grief

Last week was a tough one in the life of our church family. One of our staff members gave birth to her fourth child, only to have that sweet little life end just a few days later. This sudden loss came as a surprise to everyone. Many in our church body mobilized quickly to surround