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Instead of going back to a life that would provide safety and security, Ruth chose to give up everything to go to a land that wasn’t her own. She chose to follow, with the risk of living in poverty and grief the rest of her life. What would happen if you risked radically for the sake of love? What if unprecedented favor followed your faithfulness?

Dear men, You have probably heard so many words describing all of the ways you are failing. You’ve heard that you either aren’t empowering enough or that you don’t have...

Learning to love yourself is just as important as learning to love someone else. When you are saturated by the belief that He is absolutely crazy about every single part of you, you can love yourself and others that same way. You don’t have to wait for another person to love you for you to begin to believe you are lovable. All the love you could ever dream of is already waiting for you in His arms!

Growing up, Jesus was nothing more to me than a flannelgraph with long hair and sandals. He was the person in whose name I ritualistically ended all my prayers. He...

Before the creation of the world, God knew you. Before you were a thought, a dream in your mother’s heart He knew the purpose for your life. Even before your mother and father...

Radiant One: Living in the Light “Those who look to him are radiant; Their faces are never covered with shame.” Psalm 34.5 In studying this verse, I have found that it captures the very essence of what it means to live in the light.

Mary of Bethany’s story is one of the most extravagant displays of surrender in all of scripture. Undone by the compassion of Jesus, she disrupted a banquet and poured over Jesus an entire jar of pure, fragrant nard. The perfume she poured over him was worth over a year’s wages (in today’s terms, approximately $40,000-$50,000). What would it look like for you to offer God a gift of extravagant surrender?

written in 2017, this necklace is a treasured part of our history but is no longer available for sale Recently we (as a team) were reading the story of the...

The bar that I held myself to as a young child was unattainable, unbeknownst to me. It basically amounted to perfection. It looked like perfect beauty, smarts, holiness, the right...

She breathed in and experienced an overwhelming sense of life. Her life. The life all around her. The life inside her. Everywhere, the world teemed with life. She found herself caught...