Kelsey
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Grace Upon Grace at Christmastime
This is a guest post from my sister, Kelsey. Kelsey has her Master’s Degree in Social Work and mentors new social workers while coordinating case managers. She recently decided to go back to school to learn ASL so she can better assist her clients. In her free time, Kelsey likes to read, write, exercise outdoors, and study the Bible. *** Grace upon grace. The only way I can give grace upon grace is because it was given to me first. I don’t deserve grace, but because of God’s goodness, not my own, the Word became flesh–grace upon grace in human form. He died for my sins. He suffered much. I…
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My Sister’s Response to “What Exactly Makes Men Different From Women?”
This is a guest post from my sister, Kelsey. Kelsey has her Master’s Degree in Social Work and mentors new social workers while coordinating case managers. She recently decided to go back to school to learn ASL so she can better assist her clients. In her free time, Kelsey likes to read, write, exercise outdoors, and study the Bible. *** Here’s a link to last week’s article “What Exactly Makes Men Different From Women?” I appreciate Kelsey’s thoughts! *** I think women can defend and provide, and men can care, heal and nourish, all within God ordained roles. This article is written from a perspective of a woman who got…
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What Do You Deserve?
This is a guest post from my sister, Kelsey. Kelsey has her Master’s Degree in Social Work and mentors new social workers while coordinating case managers. She recently decided to go back to school to learn ASL so she can better assist her clients. In her free time, Kelsey likes to read, write, exercise outdoors, and study the Bible. *** Everyday God gives us what we don’t deserve. The penalty of sin is death; as sinful people, death is what we deserve. [1] Although we deserve death, God saved us by His grace through Jesus. [2] This is a free gift to all those who call Jesus Christ their Lord…
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Longsuffering
This is a guest post from my sister, Kelsey. Kelsey has her Master’s Degree in Social Work and mentors new social workers while coordinating case managers. She recently decided to go back to school to learn ASL so she can better assist her clients. In her free time, Kelsey likes to read, write, exercise outdoors, and study the Bible. *** Sometimes sitting and waiting on a response from God is the hardest calling we will ever have. This helps us grow a very valuable fruit of the Spirit. The NIV calls it forbearance; the ESV calls it patience; but throughout my life I’ve know the best interpretation to be the…
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A Wedding Reading
My sister and I collaborated on this reading for the wedding of one of her friends. She sent me some of her beautiful writing, and I edited her thoughts together. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken;…