Click below to listen to this post about personalities in churches on my Candidly Kendra podcast: People are obsessed with personality tests, which is strange, considering that we so clearly only consider one personality valid. The go-getter, the strategist, the realist with only a touch of goal-oriented optimism – that’s the man or woman who’s […]
Practical Christian Living
How To Make Big Life Changes One Small Step At A Time
Click below to listen to an audio version of this post: We were all going merrily about our business and then, whammy! And nothing has been normal since. Each of these crisis situations that have taken us out of our normal are God’s way of shaking up our comfort zone, reminding us that we aren’t […]
Why Does a Sovereign, Powerful, All-Sufficient God Want Us to Pray?
Continuing this week’s series on praying for our loved ones, here is the latest. Remember, you can listen to an audio version of the post by clicking below. God has slowed down his world and my soul is telling me that he wants his people to pray. Prayer is a strange thing, don’t you think? […]
Two-Minute Tuesday: Praying for Your Loved Ones
Click to listen to the audio version of this post: Do you ever feel like your prayers for the people you love are a little empty or dull? Asking the same things over and over starts to feel repetitive. But God encourages us to be persistent, even repetitive in prayer! (See the parable of the […]
A Home After God’s Own Heart
Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog: Twenty years ago Steve and I were packing up our belongings to begin a new adventure in Barcelona, Spain. We were bright-eyed, excited, and, to be perfectly candid, a little uneasy. Would we hate it? Would we make friends? Would this new country ever […]