Hi. My name is Carrie and I have been thinking about fish and nets lately. These thoughts have been the natural result of listening to Morgan’s …
living the it’s tricky Jesus life
Yesterday, my daughter and I met my friend Kim for coffee. For context, Kim was wearing an adorable exotic, boho caftan and I was wearing black …
would Jesus take a bubble bath?
I'm in the season of life when you generally can get as much sleep as you want. I have no more babies or toddlers to tend in the wee hours, and I …
here’s to all the flukes and the impostors out there
Once upon a time I signed a book deal and wrote a manuscript and sent it off to my publisher. Writing over 60,000 words should feel like a lot of …
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where is the love we need most of all
I logged onto Facebook today and I can’t decide what to be most upset about— what’s happening in the world or what’s happening in our social …
how to have faith when life is different than you expected
Last week, our family spent a quick weekend in Tampa after spending the previous week at a conference in Orlando. I brought a special souvenir home …
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mad respect for summer people
Greetings, fellow Summer Warriors! How is the fight for greatness going in 2019 for you? Are you killing it this year, achieving your epic summer …
some privilege and a good California girl tan
The Bible tells us a story of a powerful, rich, young man who asked Jesus what he had to do to inherit eternal life. Jesus told him to obey the …
let’s talk about sex (and mascara)
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the long road of motherhood
I spend most of my afternoons in the car, picking kids up and dropping them off all over town. If Uber wanted to create a better system for finding …
oy with the teenagers, already
No one prepared me for being a mom of teens. There are a million blogs and books and podcasts about the early years of parenting: the sleep …
leading like deborah: go find a palm tree
I have been studying the book of Deborah for a few months now. Morgan and I preached together two weeks ago, and I told her story then (you can listen …