Tag Archives: faith

He Must Increase

by Christina Fox, in category Identity

LAURA BOOZ|GUEST

I don’t know about you, but I feel so much pressure to make a name for myself, be all that I can be, and to maximize my potential. I feel like we’re all in a race to promote and protect ourselves, to achieve self-actualization the fastest. I’m so tired of focusing on me, me, me.

That’s why today I’m asking myself, would you invest your life to promote someone else?

Instead of maximizing your own potential, you’d maximize theirs.

Instead of working hard to advance your own agenda, you’d promote their message, desires, and life’s calling.

Instead of building your own audience, pursuing your own happiness, earning your own reward, and leaving your own legacy, you’d be all about theirs, theirs, theirs, theirs.

How would that feel?

The Back to School Weirds

by Christina Fox, in category Motherhood
MEG FLOWERS|GUEST Back to school gives me all the feels. I have a wise, loving friend who is a mama of grown children. She describes “back to school” as a release—a way we send our children into another layer of the broken world, and our mama hearts into a deeper place of trust. Each year… Read More

Eat This Bread

by Christina Fox, in category Faith
NAN DOUD|GUEST Isn’t it interesting how nostalgias are passed down through generations? Growing up, mom would occasionally buy this bizarre tubular food, Boston Brown Bread. She bought it because it reminded her of her childhood. Olfactory memories are certainly some of the most powerful ones. We only had it a handful of times when I… Read More

Trusting God in Our Failures

by Christina Fox, in category Encouragement

SARAH WHITE|GUEST “Yea, more with His own Hand He seemed Intent to aggravate my woe Crossed all the fair designs I schemed Cast out my feelings, laid me low…” –John Newton, “I Asked the Lord” I clearly remember my first anxiety attack. I was sitting at work, a few days removed from the fateful meeting… Read More

Growing in Faith

by Christina Fox, in category Faith

SUE HARRIS|GUEST Years ago, I was in Kenya serving with an HIV/AIDS care ministry. The sick would come to the church and people in the church would feed them. Sometimes in this village, people who had contracted AIDS were cast aside since everyone knew that they were dying. Sadly, feeding the sick was considered a… Read More

A Story of Desperation

by Christina Fox, in category Encouragement

SUSAN TELL|GUEST My friend emailed her story, begging for help. She was desperate. A story of jealousy; jealousy of her husband’s ministry. She, stuck at home with their littles, feeling unable to join in the work and the joys of ministry, was jealous! Did God not want to use her willing clay pot? Jealousy—a hard… Read More