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Relentless Podcast, Episode 3: What to believe when, “Everything happens for a reason” is no longer reason enough.
Relentless Podcast, Episode 3: What to believe when, “Everything happens for a reason” is no longer reason enough.There it was again. That phrase. The one intended to bring comfort in a time of chaos. “Everything happens for a reason.” They mean well, I tell myself...
Relentless Podcast, Episode 2: 6 Strategies When You’re Not Okay
Relentless Podcast, Episode 2: 6 Strategies When You're Not Okay How many times have you heard these words fall from your mouth? “…I’m fine.” Maybe even today. As the husband walks out, the friend bails, the doctor calls, the child slams the door, the unpaid bills...
Relentless Podcast, Episode 1: Welcome
Relentless Podcast, Episode 1: WelcomeHave you ever found yourself buried by darkness? Sitting on the floor weighted down by a darkness you can feel, arms wrapped tightly around your knees, wondering how much longer you have before all the oxygen is siphoned from the...
ANNOUNCEMENT: A New Resource For Those Searching For God
Tomorrow marks three months since Relentless released into the world. Never have I poured so much of my truest self into a project. In spite of my initial trepidation about such raw transparency, I knew it was absolutely necessary: People are suffering, Michele....
Advent Week 4: PEACE In His Presence
This is the last installment of my Advent series centered around my new book, Relentless: The Unshakeable Presence of a God Who Never Leaves (Zondervan, 2019). For four weeks, I've shared excerpts from Relentless, because its core message is the...
Advent Week 3: JOY In His Presence
For many, Christmas is a season of incomparable joy. A tree filled with lights, a church filled with music, a home filled with family, children's faces filled with joy. And yet, for many others, Christmas is a season of loneliness and losses, a...
Advent Week 2: Trusting In His Presence
More than merely remembering, Advent is also about anticipating, living in the tension of what is and what will be—the Second Coming, when Jesus returns. Whereas Lent focuses on fasting and repentance, Advent centers around prayers of expectation, a...
Advent Week 1: The HOPE of His Presence
For the month of December, I will be focusing on Advent, the four weeks preceding Christmas Day. During Advent, Christians all over the world remember the arrival of the Incarnation, God’s presence with us in the flesh-and-blood of a newborn...
A Life-giving Kind of Remembering
It was 5 years ago today. November 25, 2014. The day the battle began. It started with surgery, a surgery that would leave me marked in a way I didn't yet comprehend. All I knew is that I didn't have any other options. All my other options had been exhausted in the...
