I’ve been silent the past few months because 2020 is deafening, but today a friend shared a link defending the Netflix film, Cuties. I had to speak up. The concept of porn having a deeper message is not revolutionary. People have defended porn by calling it art for years. That’s one of the cop-outs used …
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Watch Your Back: Guilt, Movements, & the Armour of God
Guilty or not guilty. This question is at the center of scripture and undergirds the Christian faith. It’s popular to emphasize our love connection with God and to encourage one another in this way: that God loves us, we are cherished, we have relationship with Him and that’s all He really wants. All of this …
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2020 Rescue Remedy: Scriptures on Identity, Race & Unity
“I feel like the entire country is emotionally burnt out,” my friend told me. I laughed because she’s 100% right. Resources are flying around like crazy, so here are some resources for your spirit. “This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.” – Psalm 119:50 NKJV “It is the …
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Love Not Judge: When Opinion Becomes Sin
I expect the world to get swept up in hate and judgment, but when the redeemed of the Man who said “love your enemies” lay down their crosses to pick up swords, something is wrong. Do you feel your government is oppressing you, or behaving ignorantly? Jesus: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You …
What Does the Bible Say about Conspiracy Theories?
It’s been very curious to me that Plandemic has circulated – in my social media circle, anyway – mainly through Christians. Is this more cultural backlash stemming from years of the fear of man? Frightened believers in North America didn’t seem to think they had a voice in a Liberal-dominated culture until Trump was put …
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David’s Mother
“Oh turn to me and have mercy on me! Give Your strength to Your servant, and save the son of Your maidservant.” Ps. 86:16 Rolling sheaves in golden hillsWindswept ambertresses curling shouldersKissed by frostValleys dipping ‘tween the hillswhere everything was lost. Why the death that stalks our door?What, my God, is living forif trusting You …
Pain, Faith, and Sovereignty
Photo by Tabitha Mort This morning I felt a whisper in my spirit, that God is teaching the church about His sovereignty. Maybe He’s teaching the whole world. And the challenge is, the moment I say that, the offense begins. Are we childlike enough to sit and trust and love, in the midst of things …
Tragedy heals Division; re-introduces Love
This pandemic has a light at the end of the tunnel. Millions of us are imprisoned at home, glued to the electronic devices we thought we loved so much, watching for news of a cure for COVID-19 and an economic solution to prevent us from losing our homes. Just like that, we are united in …
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restitution
Quiet tip-toes through the barren streetsare paved in coldStill air frostbit folds its armsWhile sun is steady taking back the dayEmpty are our roads,all vehicles and folks at bay. Like a fascist army COVID had its way.Isolation’s call to armsbaring witnesses -Watching on their tiny screens they’re nudeStripped bare of courage by the newsLike a …
we have a future
Many times they called us goneEmpty streetsJobs and laughter, song -Gone.But from the quiet rose a soundat first a whisperthen resounding with a hundred-thousandlost-get-found: It is finished.We know where we belong. Bells and frozen palaces are shakenOne brave prayer and then anotherrestoring what was takenYoung and old andmiddlersTake their standThey breatheTaking faith, promise, andeach other …
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