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View fullsize ✨ Which Enneagram type are you in a Bible study group? ✨
Are you the Type 1 with the color-coded notes, the Type 7 suggesting Starbucks halfway through, or the Type 8 asking the question nobody else was brave enough to bring up? 😂
The truth is, comm
View fullsize The other night while we were praying for her dad out of town, Maggie suddenly proclaimed, “I believe in MY Jesus.”

I had to stop. My heart caught at those words: her Jesus.

It has been such a joy to watch belief bloom in her at a young
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View fullsize ✨ As much as we talk about doing life together around here and reading Scripture together, sometimes we like to EAT together. And sometimes there are days, or even weeks, when the people around us simply need a meal.

This has honestly been such a st
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View fullsize I’ll be honest: posting reviews feels awkward. It brushes up against the pride I’m always working to keep in check. But more than anything, I’m humbled by the women who took a chance on me, opened their Bibles, and showed up, even o
View fullsize Once again I find myself wondering about these very real people in very real situations. Writing about Ruth’s story was so special, but today I’ve been sitting with Thomas in that upper room.

I know my heart would have struggled for hope
View fullsize I’m so thankful to be able to reflect on this beautiful story over at Salt + Sparrow. 🌿

The woman at the well shows us the tender heart of Jesus. He meets us right in the places that make us want to pull away. He doesn’t just expose our
View fullsize Still smiling after another night with the Ruth pilot group. I’m so deeply thankful for these women—their honesty, insight, and encouragement have been such a gift to me. They’ve made space for me and this study in a way that has tr
View fullsize Pilot night for my “holy hype group” is here 🎉 and I wanted a fun way for us to intro ourselves. So I gave ChatGPT a few prompts and asked it to write mine based on what it knows about me.

The results? A little too accurate. Slightly ro
View fullsize Where in your story do you need to believe God is still present?
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Even Here. Even Now.

A Devotional Reflection from Ruth 1

This prayer was inspired by the raw beauty of Ruth chapter 1.
Ruth 1 isn’t a tidy story. It opens with famine and ends
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View fullsize Have you ever felt like your story was too bitter to share?
Naomi did.
She had lost everything — her husband, her sons, her security, her sense of future. And when she spoke the words, "My life is too bitter to share," she wasn’
View fullsize Yay for questions already coming in from our pilot group! 🙌🏼💛
One of the first ones we got was this:

“In verse 5, is Naomi really called ‘the woman’—and does it matter?”

Answer: Yes… and yes.

In the original
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