Unlimited Grace: What DID Jesus DO?
By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 05/06/2024The post recounts a conversation with Kate about sharing picture boards for her dad's graduation party, reflecting on showing grace in difficult situations. It then relates this to a story of a woman's act of worship towards Jesus and encourages readers to emulate Jesus by offering grace and acceptance to others.
365 Days of Grace and Gratitude
By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 29/11/2023Last week when God kept nudging me to write about gratitude, I couldn’t shake the fact that gratitude needs to be more than something we practice on Thanksgiving–if we even pause our eating long enough to be thankful! I couldn’t help but think that our lives would look so much different if we started each day with five minutes of gratitude–that maybe instead of sitting down to watch the news or scroll through social media, we should sit with God for a few minutes and acknowledge what we’re grateful for, even if it’s just one thing. But, then I kept coming back to the parts of our lives that are trainwrecks–the parts that force us to think about the “worst-case scenarios” and what might happen in those, the chaotic parts, the parts that keep us teetering on the edge hoping we can find a way to hang on.
Reclaiming Grace: Healing from Religious Trauma
By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 04/10/2023Let me be completely transparent here–I believe in the importance of baptism as the analogy and symbol of life, death, and rebirth that it very, very clearly is. I’ve been baptized–although it was a traumatizing experience, but I’ll get to that–all of my family members have been baptized, my church holds baptism services, and I would encourage everyone who chooses to follow Christ to choose baptism when it’s right for them. I am not anti-baptism. However, I am very much pro-grace.
