November

There is no rewind. There is only redemption.

Dr. Jodi Detrick

Obedience is a long walk in the same direction.

Jessica Honneger 

One of the most impacting moments in “The Passion” for me is when Jesus, bloodied and marred beyond recognition, turns to His mother and says, “I am making all things new.” My heart stops. This. This is how He makes me new. The mission of solving a problem is to liberate and free that person to go and create what they were made to create. Behind “What is the problem to be solved?” Is “What is the new thing God is about to create with this?

Dr. Curt Thompson

This is just a short excerpt of a very thought-provoking conversation between Jennie Allen and Dr. Curt Thompson on ways beauty and the way in which we see others is an antidote to shame. 

Coping is an attempt to temporarily feel better about a situation you cannot control. Is it something that’s just helping you maintain? The word maintain has the connotation that you are nursing it to death. A coping mechanism may be able to get you down the road a little further, but at some point, it’s going to lead you to something that won’t work anymore. We have choices to interrupt the plan the enemy has for us and what our nature takes us back to.

Mike Todd