What To Do When Time Isn't Healing Your Wounds - healing & restoration

What To Do When Time Isn’t Healing Your Wounds

Is it possible to walk through pain and come out the other side really okay? Yes. Is it easy? No. Is it worth it? Most definitely. Jesus said, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4).…

All the Ways to Be Beautiful - identity

All the Ways to Be Beautiful

“Andrea, how much do you weigh? ‘Cause you were by far the heaviest person to pull back into the raft.”  His words carried across the bus and hit me square in the face. I was on my senior trip in…

Put Your Promise Back On - sex

Put Your Promise Back On

I bought my purity ring when I was fifteen. I remember everything about that day. I remember being so excited to give God my entire life, making a promise that I would wait to have sex until I got married.…

Why Depending on a Spouse to Make You Happy Doesn't Work - spouse make you happy

Why Depending on a Spouse to Make You Happy Doesn’t Work

Fairytales and movies are teaching people that once they find their Prince (or Princess) Charming, all will be right in the world. They tell tales of finding “the one” who will make you the happiest person on earth. The resolution…

Denying Ourselves. Loving Gay People. - lgbtq+

Denying Ourselves. Loving Gay People.

Who we love, how we love, whether or not we can love and leave, and the penalty for certain expressions of love are being questioned. Secular culture is confronting the Church’s inability to articulate the greatest commandment.

I Didn't Expect God to Change My Sexuality - God change sexuality testimony

I Didn’t Expect God to Change My Sexuality

Throughout most of my life, I never belonged. I always felt excluded, and I questioned my sexuality and my gender. I hated the idea of being feminine because it was so foreign. I didn’t feel like a girl, but I…