Can I Overcome Sadness? [Episode 40]

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“We’re overcome with deep sadness to be at this point,” my friend texted me.

Now, you need to know this girl is Tigger on steroids. She’s ordinarily happy, upbeat, and always positive and hopeful. But, sister, she wasn’t on the day she sent me this text.

Can I Stop Trying to Fix It? [Episode 38]

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As a college student, I volunteered at a youth camp for several summers. Most of the time, I led worship and hung out with the girls. But one night, when the altar was full of teenagers, the youth minister asked if I would help counsel.

Within 10 seconds of my “yes,” a middle-school aged boy did a beeline to me. I asked him why he came to the front, and he told me it was because he wanted to ask Jesus into his heart.

Can I Find Joy Beyond the Headlines? [Episode 36 With Bobby Lewis]

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The headlines aren’t very uplifting, are they? They tell depressing stories about everything that’s wrong in this world. They accent the worst, keep us divided, and only give us half the story of what is truly happening.

Well, not today, my friend!

There’s lots of good news out there—and I am all about looking for the good. When you look for it, that’s what you see.

Can I Find Comfort When My Heart Is Broken? [Episode 35]

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Free download alert! Get your “With You” Scriptures for Comfort printable in the links below.

On February 18th, 2018, my whole world changed. My hero dad closed his eyes to this world and opened them to heaven.

C.S. Lewis wrote, “I didn’t know grief would feel so much like fear.” I had no idea grief felt so much like fatigue either. I didn’t know it would make me feel hollow. My brain knew what death was, but my heart was unaware that death was such a tearing—and an emptying.

Where There Is Family, There Is Home – FGF Highlights, Wichita Falls, TX

This past weekend, I was with family I had never met before in Wichita Falls, Texas. Yep, it was Fresh Grounded Faith! Sister, it was like going home.

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Thank you to Sherla Williams for the beautiful photos. To see the entire Facebook photo album, click here. For those of you who joined the photo booth fun, you can view your photos here.

In Christ, we are brothers and sisters, and it was so obvious at this event. Let me just tell you two quick stories that proved this.