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Living as a disciple-making-disciple in your neighborhood doesn’t have to feel intimidating, and that is why I started The Uncommon Normal. My vision for the podcast is that it will be a space to steep in truth that combats the faulty messages we have believed about our worth and our purpose. A space that will inspire both a dream of what it could look like to live missionally right in your neighborhood and the courage to take baby steps in that direction. A space to be life-long learners to ...
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Maybe you need less try-hard and self-blame and instead, a well-placed visual reminder. Something on your phone or wall or mirror to keep your goal constantly on your mind. Links mentioned: Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab t…
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But talking, I’ve found, isn’t the only antithesis of listening. The thoughts inside our heads can also inhibit our ability to be present. Links mentioned: Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the bonus 30-day missional living c…
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Jesus and the God-breathed words I’m holding in my hands aren’t just for my mind, but my heart. It’s light and it’s food. Because we’re not robots replicating Him but dearly loved children. He satisfies us with His abundance—for us and so we can tell those around us what we’ve experienced. Links mentioned: Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devoti…
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There' a risk I’ve feared but not dug into the why. God wants to talk about it. Show me where my assumptions are flawed and reactionary. Maybe you’ve been here too. Fearing the no because you don’t want to be misunderstood or rejected again. Fearing the yes because you’d assume it was sympathy or special consideration, and you want neither. You’d r…
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Then God interrupts, as I’ve known Him to do. Corporate restructuring, says my husband when he calls me. Effective immediately. Links mentioned: Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the bonus 30-day missional living challenge (f…
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I wasn’t prepared to read the Psalm drenched in tears and pleading prayers. In the Bible I held close this time last year, it’s barely legible through pen marks and smudges. But in The Voice, which I read for Mary Demuth’s 90-day Bible reading challenge, the page was untouched. Links mentioned: Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the…
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We want to get it, don’t we? Faith that’s not safe but real. Conversation with Jesus that is constant yet effortless. Honesty we know is welcome. A passion to know God intense enough to wake us in the middle of the night. Links mentioned: Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the book (affiliate link), and join us here. Get a sneak pee…
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You know now how hard it is to not say what your peers have normalized. Also, that what we say seeps into our thoughts and grows roots. Links mentioned: Mary Demuth’s 90-Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the book (affiliate link), and join us here. Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the r…
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We’re not Paul. Don’t have years of experience preaching. Wisdom to write epistles that will be handed down for many generations. We haven’t had shipwrecks and imprisonments chisel away our selfish impulses. But you know what we do have? Shoes that walk our neighborhoods. Cars that drive familiar streets. Tables where meals are eaten. Parks where w…
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Jesus loves busy people. Yes, you read that right. No matter how up-tight or snippy you’ve been today. How not-present you were yesterday. How defeated you feel. Jesus never stops loving you. We think our behavior comes first. He says come anyway. We think it’s up to us. The Finisher says, “Dear child, all’s been done.” Links mentioned: Mary Demuth…
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You and I are not passive acceptors of whatever happens. We go to battle with songs of praise and wisdom from tattered Bible pages and ruthless, trusting obedience. We lock arms with our people and hold each other up when we can’t stand on our own. Links mentioned: Mary Demuth’s 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the book (affiliate link), and jo…
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I want to be enough. Get it all the way right. Finish it on my own. But hold my not-enough in open hands. Release. Surrender. Dig deeper and discover more to let go. That’s hard. And it’s holy. Gift dripping with grace. God here in this paper-thin place. I’d tell you I know God’s good, but then I met Him on my knees and through many tears and with …
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I read Song of Solomon 2:1 (“I am a rose of Sharon . . .”) and remember pulling hundreds of Rose of Sharon seedlings in the spring. They look like an army of twigs laughing at the sky. Not innocent, you realize in year two when they’re already two feet tall and rain-softened earth won’t release the roots. So you squeeze your hands through squares o…
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That’s her role—her one aim—to teach us to revere God Eternal. She knows the direction is vital. That we’re always pursuing something, and if it isn’t Him, it’s something that will distance us from Him. Links mentioned: Mary Demuth’s 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the book (affiliate link), and join us here. Playlist of Songs I Play of Repeat…
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Fear is familiar. It’s kept you quiet even when you honestly had something to say. Convinced you to not try, not risk, not show up. Trapped you in your head, in a vicious cycle of people-pleasing and self-perfecting. Stolen more than you want to admit: joy, peace, relational depth. Links mentioned: Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cu…
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The aerial view from my seat is a timely reminder to zoom out, look for the through line staking what’s true and more important. Sometimes you need to step back to see what you’re missing. Links mentioned: Gratitude has a ripple effect. Learn more about Begin Within: A Gratitude Series HERE (which seeks to inspire year-round, ripple-effect gratitud…
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Kneeling in His presence is an act of reverence. A declaration that He is God and I am not. I need that reminder daily because I’m quick to overstep, as if I can chart my own course better than He can. Links mentioned: Jennifer Dukes Lee’s guided journal, Stuff I'd Only Tell God (affiliate link). Mary Demuth’s 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab t…
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Here’s what I really want you to know about God: He has always desired to be with us. That’s who I find in the pages of Exodus as I rapid read The Voice translation for Mary Demuth’s 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge. A God who always makes a way for us to be near Him because He wants to be known. A God indescribably pained when we turn away. Links me…
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God’s promise-laden answer to the Israelites is the same to us—self-wranglers, self-pitiers, self-justifiers. We who like to control the where, when, and how. We who are quick to complain, compare, criticize. Links mentioned: I’m taking Mary Demuth’s 90 Day Bible Reading Challenge. Grab the book (affiliate link), and join us here. Get a sneak peek …
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Let’s start here. I admit I’m scared of the word I’ve chosen for 2024. It’s a finger on a tender place that I know I need to surrender—and I’m not sure I’m ready. My word of the year will spin me to face the mirror and truths I have a hard time believing about myself. Draw me into the arms of Jesus who listens with compassion etched into every line…
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Let’s start here. I admit I’m scared of the word I’ve chosen for 2024. It’s a finger on a tender place that I know I need to surrender—and I’m not sure I’m ready. My word of the year will spin me to face the mirror and truths I have a hard time believing about myself. Draw me into the arms of Jesus who listens with compassion etched into every line…
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Maybe you’re so wrapped up in making Christmas feel right for everyone else, you’ve forgotten you actually don’t have to do anything to make Christmas perfect. Links mentioned: Get a sneak peek of my pocket-sized devotional, Cultivating a Missional Life, HERE. If you want the rest it’s $4.99 on Kindle or $6.99 for the paperback. Grab the bonus 30-d…
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This is for the one holding her breath, feeling the anxious weight of the best and bustle of December. This is for the one trying to figure out exactly where good becomes too much. Links mentioned: Grab this FREE phone wallpaper to remind you that God’s face lights up when He sees you. If you love Christmas music but find it makes you a bit anxious…
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I never knew what would happen if I picked a word of the year until I did. And maybe that’s where you are today. You hear talk at the end and beginning of every year about words of the year. You see lists of ideas popping up on Pinterest. Friends enthusiastically sharing their special word. But then there’s a whole lot of silence, and it leaves you…
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Sometimes thanks is silent. Spoken not in words but awe as we inhale God’s overwhelming goodness and weighty glory. The very first line of Psalm 65 stops me: “Oh God in Zion, to you even silence is praise” (TPT). Silent praise assumes familiarity. Connectedness that can fill in the blanks and simply savor presence. That’s the kind of relationship K…
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