by admin | Nov 11, 2015 | Blog
This post was originally published over at Missio Alliance on 10.26.15 Growing up, I sat at the feet of countless remarkable male preachers. Besides Beth Moore, I don’t recall ever hearing a woman preach until my sophomore or junior year of college. I witnessed...
by admin | Nov 11, 2015 | Blog
(This post was originally posted over at Missio Alliance on 9.30.15) She is feminine. It’s only 5:30 a.m. and her 7-month-old baby is already giggling through the baby monitor. “It can’t be morning,” Jenny whispers to herself. Her eyes burn and her bones...
by admin | Sep 30, 2015 | Blog
Do you remember when you first saw? For me, it happened on my knees as a teenager. I was alone in my bedroom and I had just finished reading the entire Gospel of Luke in one sitting. When I got to the story of the cross, I was overcome with gratitude – pure,...
by admin | Aug 4, 2015 | Blog
Photo: Matt Hoffman, Creative Commons 4.0 via #InstaBLAM (This was first published on the Missio Alliance blog on July 29, 2015) Last week I shared a few stories of opposition that I have experienced on my pastoral journey. Although my experiences were at times...
by admin | Jul 28, 2015 | Blog
~This post first appeared on the Missio Alliance blog on Monday, July, 20, 2015~ With my elbows on my knees, my body hunched over, and my head down, I nervously clenched my leather preaching bible as I was only minutes away from preaching a sermon before a...