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7 books to grow your relationship with God
Here’s a list of seven books that have grown my relationship with Jesus. Some are fiction, some are nonfiction, some are short, some are long, but all of them have grown my relationship with God.
I went home and cried…
I feel like I should have something more put together to say. My first book was published last week. My publisher and I have been working on this book for nine long months. It's been hard. And now I'm questioning authenticity as a life principle. I feel like I should...
You’ll Never Throw THIS Book Across the Room (here’s why)
I love comfort reads. For most of my life, I've been an escape reader. Whenever I've felt too anxious or stressed or overwhelmed, I've lost myself in a book. And we're talking LOSING myself in a book. I'd pick up a book, planning to read for fifteen minutes to settle...
Cut Out For This
"I'm not cut out for this," a voice screams in the back of my mind. "I'm not good at this. I'm making a mistake." My heart beats hard, like a bird frantically flapping its wings to avoid a fall. Air catches in my lungs. "I can't breathe. I need to quit." I'm sure a...
Why Christians NEED Whimsy
I’m reading this book called Strange Fire, and it’s about how important supernatural stuff is to the Christian walk. I’m really glad I’m reading it, but the book has one idea that I don’t agree with: it implies that God isn’t whimsical. What is whimsy? I don’t know...
The Cure for Self-Hatred
When there's a parade of stupid stuff I’ve said and done, ways I've hurt people, and rampant memories of sin dancing across my mental landscape…it’s easy to hate myself. Or even just a few things about myself. But as I've wrestled with this lately, I realized there's...
My Miraculous Journey to College
I didn’t expect to go from a homeschooled wannabe writer to an author whose writing has been read in almost fifty countries before I’ve even graduated college. I didn’t plan to go straight from my high school graduation to two years of a rigorous college-level writing...