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Category Archives: Singleness

Feb42020Jan 23 2020

E: 88 Love Gift Legacy with Ruth Jamison & Connie Miller

by Cami Summers, in category Discipleship, Encouragement, Faith, Leadership, Loneliness, Ministry, Podcast, Singleness
Love Gift Legacy with Ruth Jamison & Connie Miller Want to leave a legacy of resources and relationships? Join Karen Hodge, Connie Miller and Ruth Jamison to hear the exciting work God is doing in International Women's Ministry as He builds the global Church. About the Speakers: Ruth Jamison Ruth is wife to Dani and… Read More
Jan282020Dec 18 2019

E: 87 Loneliness…especially in Leadership with Kari Stainback

by Cami Summers, in category Discipleship, Encouragement, Faith, Leadership, Loneliness, Ministry, Podcast, Singleness
Loneliness...especially in Leadership with Kari Stainback Have you ever wondered what God might be teaching you in the midst of loneliness? Join Kari Stainback and host Karen Hodge as they explore the hard but sweet aspects of loneliness, particularly in leadership. About the Speaker: Kari Stainback Kari is Director of Women’s Ministries at Park Cities… Read More
Jan132020Dec 12 2019

Union with Christ in the Storms of Singleness

by Christina Fox, in category Singleness

Recently I traveled alone between my two worlds: Philadelphia, my home and vocational base and the Midwest where I have decades-long friendships. Somewhere over Ohio I realized afresh that no one but the Lord really knew me in both worlds. Only Jesus had journeyed with me emotionally, relationally, and spiritually 24/7 in both places. I’ve had many of these heart-pang moments and yet realize that even if I had a traveling companion (friend or husband) who stood by my side, that person wouldn’t know me fully. There is only One who can: Jesus, the one in whom I am hidden in the intimate and unique home that I share with him alone.

Our union with Christ is an important truth of the gospel, and therefore our identity as Christians. Whether if single or married, or if you face storms or sweet joys in your life station (most of us experience a combination of both!), the eternal fact of being united to Christ needs to be a primary lens through which we interpret and respond to our circumstances. Including when you’re thirty thousand feet above ground, feeling sad and unknown, and inching towards the downward slide of melancholy.

What Union With Jesus Means

Jesus helped his friends understand the idea of union with him through a metaphor of a vine and branches.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches, apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:4-5)

Paul talked about this spiritual concept in his pastoral letters.

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  (Colossians 3:3)

“Abiding” (or remaining, having a home) in Jesus, Christ “in us,” and our lives being “hidden” in him all speak to the spiritual reality of our connection to Jesus through faith in his accomplished work on the cross and resurrection. All that was ours (sin and eternal spiritual death) and all that is his (holiness, eternal life, a spiritual nature, identity as the beloved Son) are exchanged. At the cross, he united himself to our hopeless human state and opened the door for us to be grafted into him, gaining access to the riches of heaven!…

Jul302018Jul 27 2018

The Good Gift of Singleness

by Christina Fox, in category Singleness
SUE HARRIS|CONTRIBUTOR A few years ago, my mother and I had a very honest and loving conversation about singleness. She said that she loved exactly who God made me to be, but it has always been challenging for her to understand my life as an unmarried single woman since so much of her happiness and… Read More
Oct22017Sep 30 2017

I am My Beloved’s

by Christina Fox, in category Singleness

ELLEN DYKAS|CONTRIBUTOR I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine, He who pastures his flock among the lilies. Song of Songs 6:3 “My heart just isn’t in a place to receive your initiative towards me.” With these words, I ended a short-lived dating relationship years ago. I hung up the phone and sighed with a touch of… Read More

Aug102017Jul 12 2017

Welcoming Singles into Your Life

by Christina Fox, in category Singleness

CHERYL ERB|GUEST I have ridden the contentment roller coaster in my years as a single woman. I have felt enfolded and I have felt like an outsider. I often asked myself (and others) that famous question, “What’s wrong with me?,” buying into the world’s perspective on value. Recently, I have been part of a few… Read More

Jul202017Jul 7 2017

Can Singleness Be A “Pleasant Place?”

by Christina Fox, in category Singleness

JENILYN SWETT|GUEST “Why don’t you have a husband?” She’s 7, her big brown eyes more visible than usual since she broke her glasses, her baby blonde hair turning brown. I’ve known her since she was growing in her mom’s womb, and held her for the first time at just a few days old. This question… Read More

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