Regular Girl

On today's episode: "I certainly don’t know everything, but one thing I do know for certain is that this is enemy territory. That enemy being the devil and our tender hearts are ripe for the picking. Ever notice how it can take just one small mistake and suddenly we’re so confident of every negative thing that could ever be said of our character, our abilities, and our intelligence?"

On today's episode: "I all but barricaded myself in the bathroom and leaned into my hands over the counter. In an exhale, I let out "Lord, help!!!" I inhaled in everything I know about the Lord...every promise I've read in Scripture...every good thing that my future holds with eternity and in a few breaths, there it was...exactly what Psalms 91 describes. Sometimes, even when we don’t feel what’s...

On today's episode: "It’s what our lives were always meant to reflect. We live in His truth because that is what we were made to do. The creatED always point back to the CreatOR! To live outside of that within a lie that another of the creatED uttered falsely is living outside of your calling and purpose. I liken this to an employee telling a coworker some alternative version of a rule that they m...

On today's episode: "When I was walking through my 2-year mystery medical condition and would intermittently lose the ability to walk without assistance, I found my greatest contentment. So much was out of my control, which was a fact that was so visible and evident to me. There was something so sacred about that time. From the outside looking in, I should have been a wreck. Plenty of people would...

On today's episode: "I had been an adult for more than a decade before this sunk in. I had gone so much of my life, fixated on my world and the people and things in it. If plans didn't go the way I wanted, there was this annoyance and anger that things didn't go my way. I'm not just talking about some Willy Wonka but I want a golden goose! mindset either. I'm talking about big things. Heartbreakin...

On today's episode: "After the shots were fired, I’d made a couple of decisions. One of which was that I needed to immediately forgive them. But over a year later I would feel anger or sadness rise up in me over the whole thing and I’d find myself running right back to the cross asking God to take it from me because it was too painful to carry on my own."

In today's episode: "I wish I could tell you that when I asked God to lessen the physical ailments that plagued me that He did. I wish I could tell you that somehow magically the pain subsided, and I found myself completely pain free. That just wasn’t how it went for me. Instead of removing the pain though, He gave me eyes to see Him more clearly. He gave me an understanding that this earthly body...

On today's episode: "Why then are we still caught up in the rights and wrongs of today? At least the petty slights and annoyances of each day? Why are we still worried about how anything will turn out? If Jesus can bring the dead to life, you can trust that He will work out this situation. Just as He called you, He can also call your children or your parent or that friend or anyone to this same sa...

"While I do believe the Lord pulled me very close to Him, it was this concept of Romans 1 that changed my perspective. I viewed that time as a true living sacrifice. I looked at my situation and thought “what if someone could be drawn closer to the Lord for the way I choose to walk this path?” And so I did. Truly, this is the calling for the Christian: to point others to Christ."

"The definition of worship is to show reverence and adoration. Period. Full stop. It’s so easy to worship when we get the answers to our prayers. But what about when we don’t? Where does our worship rank when we’ve lost greatly and our hearts are gripped with fear that there’s no way we’ll ever be okay? Are we able to disconnect what we want from the pure and unbridled adoration of God for what He...

"The created was not meant to be separated from the Creator. In unity with Him we are whole, at peace, and living out our true purpose. Yet it seems we are confused and constantly choosing everything but Him."

"There are so many things I’m praying for and feel like I have been for some time. As a parent, there are prayers my heart aches to have answered for my children. Knowing the journey my boys will have to take on their own causes my breath to get stuck in my chest as I consider how many ways they could be lost along the way. How many of their choices will I be unable to rescue them from?"

"For the most part, things are physically back to normal, but every so often I’ll notice something that is slower than it once was. If I walk too fast, my left foot likes to get a little loose in the socket and I have to focus really hard on the basic mechanics of walking. I’m back in the gym working on building all the muscle that I lost and while I know this is definitely one of those things the...

"Ask yourself if the things you’re spending your time on are worthy? Are they leading you to holiness? Are they helping you grow closer to God? Are you ever “denying thyself” and fighting against what your flesh wants you to do?"

"How often have we been mad at God for the way we perceive something will go or is going? How often do we assume God is completely hands off from our lives because we cannot imagine a different scenario? How often do we get the situation completely wrong? God is always working. He never stops. Just as we can’t know what the future holds, we can never truly know how God is using our circumstances f...

"If you’re curious, I did run late. The whole purse reassembly did put me further behind and while on the road, realized that I did, in fact, forget my phone cord. When I left the house, my attitude was less than stellar, and I can assure you that no prayers were uttered in the car on the way out of town for work. Every amount of traffic, every person I encountered, every “inconvenience” made me a...

"How often do we overlook this as part of our calling as Christians? How many of us are settling to simply exist? We claimed the gift of salvation and called it good. One and done, right? But did we miss the next part and are we daily leaning into the smallish sins that we think don’t matter all that much? Are we running hard into what it means to be sanctified? Are we fleeing from sin?"

"We probably don’t have to focus too hard to imagine what they felt because many of us have probably been there. On our knees, tears pouring from our eyes, as we beg and plead to the only one who can fix it, to fix it. Prayer can feel like we are making requests to our personal genie and we need to phrase our question in the right way to get the answer we desire. At the end of the day, that’s how...

"When you’ve been praying for what feels like an eternity and you still haven’t gotten the answer you so deeply desire, an answer that you feel so intensely would do nothing but glorify God, it feels really hard to even eek out an ask to God that He would just fix the parts of your life that are broken. It’s a tender wound that you’re scared to open up again out of fear the next time you’re injure...

"When I was at my sickest, resigning myself to never getting well, I prayed for more faith, and God sent me friends to pray for me when I could not. He surrounded me with a community of people who were willing to stand in the gap of my broken heart and pray for the healing I’d given up on ever seeing. He pointed me to dive deeper into His Word to remind me of the eternity I could look forward to b...

"It’s true that they could, but a statement that things could be worse didn’t help my situation improve. At the end of the day, things were bad for me and we truly were no closer to answers for why I was sick and how I’d get better. I had a healthy outlook and perspective, but sometimes you need to let the steam off and speak openly about the realities you’re faced with. Sometimes you don’t need s...

"Most importantly, it prepared me for a time in my life that I could never have seen coming. I shudder at the thought of what that season of my life would have looked like had I not followed the prompting of the Holy Spirit to show up every day and read His Word so many years prior. It was such a simple act but it changed everything and prepared me better than anything else I could have done." Tun...

"With instant access to news and opinions, our battle against things that are not flesh and blood can quickly turn into a battle against our fellow believer and convincing them and others how right we are and how wrong they are. The most important commandment is to love God. The second is to love others. That’s it. Can you imagine if every person who professed a belief in Christ would make that th...

"Salvation is the most incredible gift, free to all who would accept it. It feels like we couldn’t possibly need more than that, but God is generous. Far more generous than we could ever think and He not only wants us to have salvation at the end of our lives, but here NOW, He wants us to experience all that He has to offer." Click below to listen!

"I remember standing there at the foot of the stairs and feeling like my world was literally falling apart. I’d been caught red-handed coming in well after curfew on Halloween (of all nights!) and knew the consequences would be heavy. I barely slept a wink as I contemplated what the next half of my life would look like. Surely, my days were numbered." Today's episode is live. Click below to listen...