Statistics are bleak about changing course spiritually as an adult. Twenty years ago, nine of ten people who identified as having made a personal commitment to Jesus that remains relevant today did so as a child. A decade ago, I would have included myself in…
Thanks from Kelli Journal entry by Kelli Walker – Jul 10, 2014 “For you, Lord, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living.” Psalm 16:8–9 Dear…
White knuckles reached for the seatback. I arose and moved forward with a broken heart. No particular words, no pomp or circumstance, only a Holy Spirit inspired motivation from genuine desperation and need. Psalm 51:17 – NLT God had been patiently waiting for me. His…
“Is there more to my spiritual life than this?” [furrowed brow, puzzled emoji here] Before my genuine relationship with Jesus, my sporadic intermittent talks with God resembled a vending machine Houdini-fashioned escape strategy type praying. “Lord, if you could just let me slip out of…
How can I get myself out of this mess without anyone knowing? How can I ever get free of the secrets and shame I feel? These were questions to which I didn’t have any answers. And as I shared in the last post, I had…
“Had I done enough to go to heaven?” I was asking the question about something that honestly had never bothered me before. I remember the nagging doubt about what I’d been doing in church the last forty-plus years, especially after listening to my college-age daughters…
