GIFTS

This is the time of year when everyone talks about resolutions, beginnings, and how awful the past year has been. We quickly abandon the celebratory season in which we revel in the story of how mankind was given the greatest gift despite our failings. We toss that aside to mull over how we failed in last year’s resolutions and how we will not this time.

For a few years there has been something I have wanted in my life- I’m going to call it home- and I would ask myself why I didn’t have it. I thought God was withholding this thing from me because I wasn’t focused enough on Him. I promised myself I would be better, more steadfast in my Christianity, that I would be good enough to be given this thing. That I would deserve it.

I’ve don’t think that anymore.

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Abandoning Leaders

I recently came across a blog post by a gal who seems to have a series calling people to say goodbye to Christian teachers. This post caught my eye because the teacher she was referring to was Lysa Terkeurst, the founder of Proverbs 31 Ministries, who happens to also be acquainted with someone I know. It’s a small world, folks.

Upon doing a little more reading I found that this gal, Michelle Lesley, has similar posts where many popular Christian female teachers such as Priscilla Shirer, Christine Caine, and Beth Moore are mentioned as false teachers who need to repent. Lesley goes through a few points to support her case for women abandoning the teachings of these Christian women. Now I haven’t done a lot of research regarding the purity or heartbeat of these women, this is simply my reaction to what I had read. Continue reading “The Honest Truth On…” →