Tag Archives: gospel

The Music That Shapes Us

by Christina Fox, in category Shame
SHARON MORGINSKY|GUEST My husband loves music. In fact, before he became a pastor, he was a full-time musician. Our home is filled with music most of the time. We have this little dance we do when people come over. He picks out a playlist and turns up the music, then after a time I come… Read More

One Family’s Journey with Autism

by Christina Fox, in category Suffering
DAVINA PERRET|GUEST Three days before Mother’s Day, our 12-year-old son was removed from our home by police escort and taken to a psychiatric hospital. The months leading up to this event were filled with several inpatient and outpatient hospital stays because of his constant obsessions over suicide, death, and all things dark.  Our weeks revolved… Read More

FOMO, Our Hearts, and The Gospel

by Christina Fox, in category Fear
CAROLINE SCRUGGS|GUEST What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?                                                                              Romans 8:31-32 I’d like to think… Read More

What are Your Eyes Fixed on?

by Christina Fox, in category Thought Life
KRISTEN HATTON|CONTRIBUTOR “No one else ate cake!” “What? Yes, they did. Everyone I saw had a piece.” “Well, Catherine said with summer around the corner she couldn’t have any. And Elizabeth said the same thing.” “Ok, so a few people, but whether they did or not shouldn’t affect you. Besides, it was delicious so I… Read More

The Cry of Dereliction

by Christina Fox, in category Faith
SUE HARRIS|GUEST “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Jesus cried these painful and perplexing words from the cross. Although an antiquated term, dereliction means: the state of having been abandoned. It has been used by theologians for centuries to describe this cry from our Savior. When I first heard “cry of dereliction”… Read More

Our Suffering Savior

by Christina Fox, in category Suffering
BARBARANNE KELLY|GUEST We are all familiar with suffering, aren’t we? As members of the household of God, experiencing suffering and trials is more than our common experience, it is our calling. Within our local churches there is more than enough pain and heartbreak to share. When I think about the women in my Bible study… Read More

The Gift of the Little Drummer Boy

by Christina Fox, in category Christmas
KRISTEN HATTON|CONTRIBUTOR Since I was a child, the “Little Drummer Boy” has been a favorite Christmas song of mine. I love all the “pa rum pum pums,” maybe because even someone as musically challenged as me can sing those!  But last year during the holiday season while reading Ann Voskamp’s advent devotional book, The Greatest Gift, I… Read More

Fighting to Win in Marriage

by Christina Fox, in category Marriage

DUSKI VAN FLEET|GUEST I lay there reading my book, trying to quiet my mind after another argument, feeling regret over things I said, but holding onto the resolve that I was justified in how hurt, unseen, and misunderstood I felt at that moment in our marriage. No way was I going to be the first… Read More