Regular Girl

Have you ever bargained with God because you were about to face the consequences of something you’d done? You know reality is about to bite back hard and you run to prayer promising God that if He’ll just make this one thing work out or go away, you’ll never do that thing again. Ever. Listen to today’s episode now.

“There’s a dirty little lie that refuses to die and has snuck its way into even the most well-intentioned Christian heart. Perhaps you’ve heard it. “God won’t give you more than you can handle.” In today’s episode, I’m talking about why this is a lie and what we’re meant to do with our struggle instead. Listen in by clicking the image below.

“We build borders where Christ meant to rip the walls down.” Listen to today’s episode by clicking on the link below.

I am of the opinion that the world will forever be changed by this. We, as a people, are changed from this. Most certainly, our children will be changed by this. Listen to today’s episode by clicking on the link below.

“In times like now, it is easy to get bogged down in the consuming feelings that we are not in control. If you come to a full stop on that notion, this total lack of control, you’ll be surely overwhelmed and taken under.” Listen in now to today’s episode.

“Do you know you are thought of? Do you know just how often you are thought of? In the loneliest and darkest of times when you are at your worst, you are always in His thoughts.” Tune in now for today’s episode.

“Before the suffering, my faith was very shallow. Concepts like trusting God and resting in His Word, retreating to Him in desperate prayers, surrendering my will to His, always seemed like such great ideas, but to put them into practice…how does one do that?” Listen in to today’s episode now.

“We ended the call and I remembered that we, as Believers, are not helpless. It’s true that we can’t fix this situation, but we can sure play a part in shining a light at the end of a very dark tunnel.” Today’s episode is live and at the start of a new year, I think it’s a perfect reminder. Click below to listen.

Even now, I believe a great exodus is happening in our lives. How many times has He removed toxic people and environments from our life only for us to return to them? How many times?” Listen in to today’s episode.

“Did He really promise you the thing you are heartbroken over? Or, did you unfairly assign Him a promise out of alignment with His intentions as our Father?” Listen in to today’s episode.

“Thinking back to that time in my youth, I can look upon years that I felt the same as a child toward my parents. As a parent, I can look back and see how I invited the consequences that took place, and more than that, the times my parents did extend grace when I likely deserved discipline.” Today’s episode is live! Click below to listen.

“It’s now been more than two decades later and I see that those desperate prayers have all come true. Though not at all the way I would have thought.” Click below to listen to today’s episode.

“Stopped at a red light, his words rolled through my head. “There’s nothing more I can do for you.” Every time they travel through my brain, it’s like the rug keeps getting jerked from under me. Time brings perspective and God is so kind to meet me in the depth of my sadness and sit with me, not coaxing me out until ready.” In today’s episode, I’m talking about some of my medical journey and a par...

One day I could walk. The next I couldn’t. I mean, I could, but it was clumsy, awkward, uncontrolled, and slow. If I was seated, one might never know anything was wrong with me. Upon standing though, it was clear something wasn’t right. Although it brought on a lot of assumptions about me, I was always happy to bear the brunt and suffer the pain to stand and sing of the Lord’s goodness. In my hear...

Merry Christmas! In today's episode, I'm talking about what making bread taught me about my own seasons of waiting. If you're in a season like that or know someone who is, I think today's message is perfectly on time. Click on the image below to listen. 

I love birthdays, but not for the reasons you might think. It's not the gifts or the cake, but the intentional show of love to someone that tells them we're happy they're alive. On one of my birthdays, my condition had caused me to need a wheelchair and as my youngest son climbed easily into lap, wrapping his arms around me, something dawned on me. Were it not for my condition, I wouldn't have bee...

Have you ever just wanted to punch a hole into the Earth and scream down into it? No? Just me? Alrighty then. I don't know much, but I'd be willing to bet that we've all been in a place where it felt like all the cards were stacked against us. Sometimes life just feels really unfair. But what if we have it all wrong? Listen in to today's episode. 

What started as an exercise in discipline evolved into a practice of worship. For so many years I called myself a Christian. I would have told you that I was a follower of Christ, that I loved God and Jesus, and I think I really thought I did. Yet it is interesting to me that I didn’t even so much as apply myself to the true study of God’s word to learn more about who He is. My faith was built on...

Have you ever been so sure of someone or something and the good they/it could do that you were willing to stand on the rooftops and scream their/its name. Stand on the street holding a sign and have a willingness to tell others and hype them up so they believe in whomever or whatever you support. We do this with all sorts of things that have positively impacted our lives. But do we take the same t...

Have you ever had someone make unfair and false assumptions about the motivation behind your decisions? What about your own unfair and false assumptions about the motivation behind someone else's decisions? We've all done it and I believe we do this quite often in our relationship with God. But how can any of really know why God does any of the things He does? In today's episode, this is exactly w...

When I first began my pursuit for a diagnosis, I kept running into doctor's offices with this incredible bubble of hope that surely this visit would be the one that cracked the code to why I'd gotten so sick. But, one closed door after another soon revealed to me one of the greatest gifts that chronic illness could provide. Tune in to today's episode as I reveal the gift that closed doors gave me....

Can we honestly look at our lives and answer that the work of the Lord is the most important thing in our lives? How easy would it be for others to know you are a servant of the King from an outside looking in glance at your social media feed, your interactions with others, the conversations you speak in a whisper, the way you spend those idle hours of the day, the way you respond when no one of n...

For the one who places their trust in the Lord and depends on Him for everything, the resolution to their struggles will always be victory. There is no defeat for those that put all their eggs in one basket of God being Lord of their life. There will be ups and downs and battles that feel completely lost, but God will always be with the one who retreats to Him.

Romans 3:23 is pretty straight and to the point. Lest you think you’re an okay person because you haven’t committed an atrocity like murder, let me remind us that every single ounce of sin makes us fall short and unworthy. What should God give us? I’ll let you decide what that answer should be. But, praise God, what He should give us and what He has given us are two different things and separated...

"But the life focused on Him is one rife with peace and joy through unimaginable suffering. It is one with eyes set on the prize. The seemingly zealous Christian that won’t stop talking about Jesus is doing so for your benefit; with the hope that the people they love might know what a life full to the brim is like. The real question is that if you are a Believer, why aren’t you talking about Him m...