The dance teacher pulled her arm across both shoulders and shifted abruptly to the other side.  “Stretch your arm across until you can’t balance anymore, then turn!”  She examined us as we tried the move ourselves.  “Good, Krystine!”  She encouraged.…

The runner arrived, breathless.*  Sweat was pouring off his brow.  “They’re almost here!”  He panted. “Who?” the king questioned, rising up off his throne. “The enemy.  Three armies.  They can’t be numbered.” The king’s enemies were on his doorstep.  Yet…

I hefted my suitcase into the overhead compartment and squeezed into the airplane seat.  The man next to me looked young, maybe just out of high school.  He had a small-town, comfortable manner about him, and his newly shaved head…

“So, Anna, why CGA?”  Glad you asked!   I have the incredible opportunity to join an eight-month discipleship program in Gainesville, Georgia called the Center for Global Action (CGA), which exists to mobilize young adults coming off of The World…

“I’m giving up on religion,” I said to the tattoo artist.  It all started with a prayer… “Lord, help me to let go of a ‘doing’ spirit, and recognize the ‘be’ spirit already in me.” Somewhere along the line as…

A few weeks ago, I found myself battling the lies: “I am little.  Insignificant.  Unnoticed.  Unloved.”  I’ve dealt with these lies before.   You see, the lies that we believe – the tapes that play in our heads – usually…