Eric and I spent the first ten years of our marriage speaking in churches and Christian gatherings around the country, as well as overseas. As a young Christian stepping into the excitement of full-time ministry, I had romanticized ideals about what traveling from church to church would be like. It didn’t take long before those ideals were shattered. While we did meet many truly committed and victorious Christians, we also encountered an uncomfortable amount of counterfeit leaders and hypocritical believers.
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Becoming a Blanket Carrier, Part 1
I vividly remember a particularly exhausting season when Eric and I had recently welcomed our fourth child. We were trying to maintain our sanity with four children under the age of five, two of them still in diapers.
273 – Surrendering Bitterness – A Biblical Mindset, Part 24
Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with a Scriptural look at what it means to surrender bitterness to God. When we have been wounded…
Hurtful Christians, Part 2
Corrie ten Boom once shared an amazing testimony about forgiving one of the cruelest guards in the concentration camp where her sister died. Because of God’s amazing grace, she was able to do what was impossible in her own strength.
Hurtful Christians, Part 1
It was a snowy day in January 1892 when Amy Carmichael put pen to paper in an attempt to express to her beloved mother that God was calling her to leave everything and pour out her life on a foreign mission field.
103: Personal Revival, Part Two
Spiritual spring cleaning is more powerful than any health detox could ever be! This week’s episode uncovers the reason why so many of us cling tightly to unconfessed sin…
True Devotion
I sat in a wing-back chair by the blazing fireplace, surrounded by friends on a Wednesday night; our weekly…
62: Experiencing God’s Restoration
Want to know if there is still hope for a beautiful, God-scripted love story…
61: Corrie ten Boom: A Picture of Grace-Filled Forgiveness
When we are hurt, disparaged, or backstabbed the wounds are raw and real. It is here that we have an opportunity to learn of Christ and make the conscious decision to obey…