Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Single Life
What is the difference between dating and being married? That was a question I was ruminating over during a sleepless night this past week. Obviously, to be married a couple has to have a wedding of some sort and go through the legal channels to be legally married, but that’s not really what I’m talking about. What makes a marriage …
Christian Life, Single Life, Spiritual Disciplines
This week for my Six Week Spiritual Growth Journey that I’m doing on Facebook, I talked about Sabbath. In thinking about the benefits of Sabbath, I realized that Sabbath teaches us the very thing that I struggled with most when I was single. It’s something we all often struggle with when we have unmet desires: there’s only so much we …
Christian Life, Spiritual Disciplines
How My Vacation Reminded Me that How We Spend Our Time Shows Our Priorities I’m just going to really honest here. I wish I was still on vacation. Last week, my husband and I went on our two year anniversary trip. We rented the cutest little cabin and spent our days hiking and exploring all kinds of natural wonders (pictures …
Christian Life, Spiritual Disciplines
I remember feeling a little bit disappointed after I got baptized at age 13. For one, it was like a birthday. I didn’t feel any different afterwards, even though I had expected too. Secondly, I didn’t feel like I knew what I was supposed to do next. I had felt very strongly that God wanted me to be baptized. I …
Christian Life
I’d like to clear something up here: contentment is overrated in the church. I remember back in the day reading Christian dating books and feeling this pressure to feel content. If only I could be content with my life, then God would bring me a husband. After all, it’s often after you stop really seeking after something that you get …
Married Life, Sex, Theology
In my last post, I gave some biblical evidence for why God cares so much about sex and why he makes guidelines/rules around it. Basically, it came down to two main reasons: one, sex is a powerful thing and we can easily become enslaved to it, and two, God created sex to be a part of the marriage relationship. This …
Christian Life, Married Life, Sex, Single Life, Theology
A Theology of Sex, Part 1 As Christians, we often have a stigma attached to us: we’re too uptight about sex. The world has moved on to a place where the old constraints no longer matter, with few exceptions (people generally are still against bestiality, incest, and pedophilia).Yet Christians, or at least the conservative, old school ones, still argue against …
Christian Life, Spiritual Disciplines
I was born a talker. Okay, that’s not literally true, but my parents have a video of me at my second birthday party and I am just talking up a storm, full sentences and everything. It’s actually quite amusing to see full sentences come out of a tiny child with a ridiculously high pitched voice. Not much changed as I …
Sex, Single Life
How Orange Is The New Black Is More Honest Than Many Christians about Oral Sex I will admit something rather freely to you all here: I’m really not very good at the whole only watching wholesome shows and movies thing. I never really have been. Mostly because wholesome stuff is usually either just for kids or it sucks. There …
Christian Life
Having grown up in the church, I have a love/hate relationship with it. One thing that I realized that I hated in college (though I also realize it has benefits) is age based or stage of life based church groups. I had always loved being in a youth group as a teen, but once I was in college, I found …