“Be still and know that I am God.” -Psalm 46:10 NIV “Crunch up…4…3…2…1 …and hold…4…3…2…1 …and down slowly…4…3…2…1.” The instructor’s words repeated on my television screen. Laying on my back, I struggled to crunch slowly upward, hold, and slowly descend back down to the floor. This workout was different than the ones that required me to hurry, get in more […]
Last year during our family’s spring break vacation, I decided I was finally going to break open a book I had on my “must read” list for far too long. While it wasn’t your typical go-to vacation-read, I was excited to dive into Gina Birkemeier’s book, Generations Deep: Unmasking Inherited Dysfunction and Trauma to Rewrite our Stories Through Faith and […]
The word “victim” has been thrown around relentlessly in the past four years. It seems there is no end to who has been victimized by someone or a group of people. While there’s no doubt that being a victim of a wrongful act(s) is harmful and wrong, is it possible to heal and grow out of the victimhood mentality? Bryan […]