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Christ’s Call to Return to Our First Love
First love. Nothing compares to it. Why? Psychology Today notes that "first love is characterized by...emotional connection, reciprocal involvement, orientation to the future, and desire for a pervasive presence of the loved one." Yet in Revelation 2:5 (NASB), we read...
The Value of Brokenness
This week I had the joy of guest posting for Sherry Poundstone at Coffee and the Word. If you think you're too broken for Jesus, I encourage you to visit and discover how there is blessing and value in our brokenness. Shallow lines marked half-moons at the edges of my...
3 Ways to Step Boldly into Your Calling
Several years ago, I purchased tickets to a circus traveling through town. I imagined prancing horses and graceful women. Tightrope walkers and fragile towers of rope and wire. Gymnastic feats and side-splitting laughter. Excited to share the experience with my...
Are You on the Edge of Desperation?
The sharp trill of the phone unsettled the still of the evening as I fumbled to retrieve the noisy offender. Midnight calls are never good news. An unfamiliar voice responded to my mumbled "hello". Is this Tammy Kennington? I'm with the suicide hotline and I have...
When Prayers Go Unanswered
Sea foam swirls around my feet as it kisses the shoreline and then disappears, leaving behind a haphazard trail of color. Ocean gems glisten, wet and bright beneath the sun. Some are sleek and black while others bear a pockmarked complexion. Still others expose their...
The Day Holiness and Grief Met
Her body lay motionless; unresponsive as my fingers trailed across the tender flesh of one small foot. There was no rise and fall of shallow breathing and I knew. My baby had died. Grief and fear spilled onto my sleeping husband as I began shouting. She's not...
Clinging to God-An Image of Intimacy
A habit of disobedience and rebellion led to forty years of aimless wandering in an inhospitable desert while the promised land lay only miles ahead. But under Joshua's holy, ordained leadership the Israelites reignited their commitment to the God who had rescued them...
