ldquo You rsquo re not what I expected I thought I rsquo d hate you but I don rsquo t rdquo The young man rsquo s words seemed harsh but they were actually an effort to be kind I was studying abroad in his country a land that decades earlier had been at war with my own We were participating in a group discussion in class together and I noticed he seemed distant When I asked if I had offended him somehow he responded ldquo Not at all And that rsquo s the thing My grandfather was killed in that [... more]

When a friend asked me to speak with teen girls at a workshop promoting purity I declined As a teenage runaway I struggled and had decades of scars caused by my immorality After getting married and losing our first child to a miscarriage I thought God was punishing me for my past sins When I finally surrendered my life to Christ at the age of thirty I confessed my sins and repented repeatedly Still guilt and shame consumed me How could I share about God rsquo s grace when I couldn rsquo t even bring myself to fully receive the [... more]

As we continue our series called Can't Believe we're discovering how we can overcome doubts and fully trust in God even if we still have questions [... more]