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Let Your Message Grow Like a Field

Let Your Message Grow Like a Field

The quote pictured here is just one of my favorite takeaways from author Jennifer Dukes Lee, who shared on the topic of posting engaging content to make your social media grow at She Speaks 2023. When I saw Jennifer’s name on the She Speaks speaker roster this spring, I was thrilled to know I’d get…
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Collaboration News on the Horizon

Collaboration News on the Horizon

I promised more to my She Speaks story—and I will be sharing more VERY soon—but today I just wanted to give a shoutout of gratitude to my She Speaks sister in Christ Mary Armand! Mary was one of my first new friends at She Speaks 2022, and now I’m blessed to be collaborating with her,…
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Lysa TerKeurst

A Day With Lysa TerKeurst

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who has found this to be true. But today, this photo speaks volumes to me—most of them written by Lysa TerKeurst, a beautifully brave, genuine, and humble vessel who continues to pour into women like me with her…
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How to Rely on God's Power When Affliction Persists

How to Rely on God’s Power When Affliction Persists

Transforming Truth: God’s Power “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” — 2 Corinthians 12:9 (ESV) A few years ago, I started…
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The Fallacy of a High Friends Count

The Fallacy of a High Friends Count

Transforming Truth: Friendship “A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” —Proverbs 18:24 When did “friend” become a verb? Not “befriend,” which means “to act as a friend of,” but just “friend,” as in, “I friended so-and-so, and…” As you probably guessed, most…
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How Joy Gives Us Strength in our Struggles

How Joy Gives Us Strength in Our Struggles

Transforming Truth: Joy “A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” – Proverbs 17:22 (ESV) In typical Colorado fashion, spring had been a mixed bag of alluring warmups with a few snowstorms sprinkled in. Though a little inconsistent, temperatures began to reach early summer heights, cueing the reappearance of…
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The Fruit of Patience in a Winter Season

The Fruit of Patience in a Winter Season

Transforming Truth: “Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.” — James…
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Faith to Face an Empty Nest

Faith to Face an Empty Nest

Transforming Truth: “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” — Matthew 6:26 (ESV) Last summer, my husband and I took a short retreat to camp on the shores of one of…
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Can Flowers Fuel Your Faith?

Can Flowers Fuel Your Faith?

Transforming Truth: “And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and…
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