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More often than I'd like to admit, I wake up feeling run down, spent, and empty. Maybe you know what that feels like. Maybe you’re even feeling it today. A few years ago, I quickly discovered that in...
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Here’s Why Adult Coloring Books Are All the Rage
If you’ve been inside a Hobby Lobby, Target, Walmart, or Barnes & Noble store recently, you probably noticed the entire sections wallpapered with adult coloring books. We dove into the wonder of...
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Why I Gave Up Prayer
A few years ago, I gave up prayer. Okay, maybe not all prayer, but long-winded prayer for the forty days of Lent. I had heard a sermon by our friend, Jay, which highlighted the importance of praying...
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How To Pray When You Don’t Know What To Pray
Prayer is a spiritual discipline we simply can’t live without. Through prayer, we express our adoration and affection to God. We make requests or petitions to God. We confess our brokenness to God and...
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5 Ways to Flip Your Prayers Upside Down
What if you turned your prayers upside down? What if instead of praying for others to change, we prayed change for ourselves? What if instead of praying God would purpose us, we prayed purpose in him?...
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The One Gift You Can’t Live Without
In a fast and furious 18 days, Leif, Hershey, and I packed up our home in Denver, sold our furniture on Craigslist, said “I’ll be seeing you” to our life-long friends, and moved to Salt Lake City,...
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Personal Versus Positional Friends: How Do You Tell the Difference?
Does this person like me for who I am? or what I do? or who I know? or how I can help? These are some of the hardest questions any of us will ever navigate. Yet we chart course through these uncertain...
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What’s REALLY Holding You Back
Sometimes I don’t think we realize the power of forgiveness and unforgiveness—in our lives, in the lives of others, and in our world. One of my heroes is Corrie Ten Boom, author of The Hiding Place....
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These Four Words Will Set You Free
A couple of years ago, I noticed the need for encouraging cards for those facing long-time illnesses—for those occasions when you just don’t know what to say. The wah-wah, platitude cards available at...
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7 Ways to Awaken Wonder Today
I long to live wonderstruck. It’s a posture. A choice. An attitude of living with holy night vision goggles. Searching under every branch, in every nook and cranny for the wonders of our great God....
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The Fall Bible Study You’ve Been Waiting For
Fight Back With Joy is written for…. The one who wonders: Is this all there is? The one who asks: Is there something I'm missing? The one who wrestles: Is there something more I can do? Fight Back...
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7 Secret Ways to Save Money at Anthropologie
The clothes at Anthropologie take my breath away, but so do the price tags. For years, I believed this was a store I couldn’t afford. The dreamy gifts and clothes seemed just out of reach. Then I...
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I Double-Dog Dare You to Be Happy Today
Jennifer Dukes Lee is a long-time blog-friend and encourager. When her book, Love Idol released she challenged herself to go 40 days without using a mirror, reminding us that we are all #preapproved....
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New Adult Coloring Book with Tear-Out Pages: Promises of Blessing
Do you know how much God is for you, not against you? How would your life change if you started recognizing daily moments of His grace, big and small? I'm thrilled to announce my newest Adult...
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Why Moving Brings Out the Worst In You—And Tactics to Overcome
Leif and I have moved four times in the last 11 months. Four moves in such a short timespan have convinced me that moving brings out the worst in us. If you haven’t moved in a while you may feel...
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Could Lack of Sleep Be Ruining Faith?
As I’ve been proofing Wonderstruck: Awaken to the Nearness of God (from Worthy Publishing and Lifeway) book and working on the accompanying Bible study, I’ve found myself welling up with tears and...
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Sunday Stills
“The only faith that wears well . . . is that which is woven of conviction.” –James Russel Lowell, American poet, critic, essayist, editor, and diplomat **Photo courtesy of here The post Sunday...
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How My Faith Has Changed Since The Organic God
Over the last year, my friends at Zondervan have been hard at work taking the hardback version of The Organic God and bringing it to paperback. Since the book’s release in 2007, more than 50,000...
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You’re Invited to a Life of Faith
Growing up, I remember strangers coming up to me and saying, “Oh, you’re Marjane’s daughter” or “You’re Bill Feinberg’s daughter.” One day, when I was around 10 or 11, I remember someone approaching...
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How to Live in the Present
If only I can get through this season of life. I just can’t wait until graduation… finances are in order… life becomes easier. Counting down the days until vacation. I wish I had a spouse… a child… a...
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