The Unlikely Missionary

I'm not a Kobe Fan. I'm a Knicks fan. He reminded me too much of MJ and I can't stand MJ. But I am a wife and a mother and the thought of my husband and my children being gone from me forever is unbearable. And that is why I haven't been able to hold back tears. Having kids makes this news hit different Hearing that Kobe died was a shock. My husband's face showed disbelief as he uttered the words, "this can't be true", when he read the news. A wife without her husband. Girls without their dad. No one to walk them down the aisle. His youngest two only knowing him through other people's stories. But then when they reported his daughter was with him too... Deep sadness overwhelmed me. I held my daughter close. I breathed her in. I snuggled with my son. And I didn't realize I was crying until I felt his hands cup my face and wipe my tears looking at me concerned. My husband and my son and daughter are my world. My ki...

I first learned about Soul Ties in junior high. It was the new big term in the youth Christian world at the time. It sounded sexy but when you really thing about it, Its a heavy thing. I touched on it a little bit in my post,  The Sin You Do To Yourself , but I'll go more in depth here. ------- As a young girl I understood the concept but didn't truly understand it until I was a young adult. So what is a Soul tie? Good question. A soul tie is a spiritual connection created through marriage, sex, or accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord. The first and most perfect example for how a soul tie is supposed to be is the one formed when you accept Christ. The Holy Spirit comes down and resides within you (Romans 8:10-11; 1 Corinthians 6:19). He is there to walk with you, to guide you, to teach you and to help you remember all the things God has promised you (John 14:26). The second example is in Genesis when God created Adam. He said it is not good for Adam to ...

I love Christmas but over the years it has become an increasingly stressful time. I live for all that comes along with Christmas. The gift giving. The tree, the sweets, the decorations. It all brings me joy. And I want to pass that joy to my children. But for the last 5 years I haven't had a home. My own home anyway. Which means I can't do Christmas the way I would like. My traditions like my life are just being pieced together. Fit in when they can be. And we're low on cash during this time of year which adds to the stress. Add to that working hard all year and feeling like you have nothing to show for your blood, sweat, tears, ears, elbows and toes. It all culminates on a day like today. Everyone has their things that make this time of year hard. And it can be tough getting out from under the cloud. Today definitely didn't help my mood. It was raining and cold and cloudy all day. Many times I felt like I wanted to just break down and cry. Especia...

Biblical Feminism This is a LOADED title and maybe it will become a series. We'll see. But today's post will touch on two things. Patriarchy and women in the Bible. People say that the Bible stresses a patriarchal society. I agree and disagree. In today's society men use their power to crush and abuse women and children in their care. When you look at patriarchy biblically what you find is that yes, God did put men over women and children. Not to abuse them but to protect them. Abraham , I'll be talking about Abraham a bunch today because he was one of the clearest examples of what the man's role in his household was. Abraham was in charge of his whole household from his wife on down to the child of his maids and servants. They were all from the House of Abraham. He was responsible for their shelter, their food, their well-being and their safety. That's a huge deal. Unfortunately a lot of that responsibility has now been put on women when they nev...

God does NOT have a covenant with the United States I'll repeat for the Christians in the back. God does NOT have a covenant with the United States . The Church in America is really quite pompous I have discovered as I have gotten older. It bothers me to watch some of these folks talk about the covenant of God and America as if God needs us. He doesn't need us. The only nation God has a covenant with is the nation of Israel and yet we in the US believe that godly morality resides in the West. As if God changed His mind over the years and moved it to us. How crazy is that when our country didn't even exist when the Bible was written? When I was a kid it never quite made sense to me how Israel was across the Atlantic but we were the nation of God. It didn't make sense because it's not true. We as believers have individual covenants with God. The more believers in one area, the higher the God concentration. Like mass immunization creates group immunity. Peopl...

It's still incredible to me that evangelicals are saying that God chose Trump. It's incredible for the obvious reasons: He clearly has broken every commandment there is but especially the two most important ones, Love the Lord your God with all you heart, mind and strength and Love your neighbor as yourself. But the least obvious is that God never wanted us to have a king (president, ruler, dictator, tyrant, etc) in the first place. When the Bible says there is nothing new under the sun there really isn't. I'm reminded when the children of Israel asked Samuel for a king. Samuel was distressed and asked, "What for?" Their response back was "because everyone else has one". Not the greatest of reasons huh? So he went to God with all this and God said, let them have it, they have rejected me anyway. They asked and He ALLOWED them to get what they asked for . They wanted a king, they chose Saul. I put allowed in all CAPS because the one thing w...

Side Chick culture is rampant out here nowadays. It's not only glorified but celebrated. No women should ever be ok with being on the side. We are all worthy to be the one and only as God intended. In God's Economy men are one woman men. If you were supposed to have more than one God would have took more than one rib and made more than one Eve. So even though side chicks are fashionable these days the consequences can be devastating. Take it from the original side chick: Hagar. Now if you don't know the story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar read up on it here . But in a nutshell, God told Abraham who was a very old man that he would have a child and the nation of Israel would come through that child. His very old wife Sarah didn't see how that was possible with her so she concocted a plan to make God's plan happen. Note : God doesn't need help btw. So she sent Hagar to have sex with her husband and get pregnant. Which she did. Now this isn't a tradit...