Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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This is not a test!
These last few weeks have been topsy-turvy. The highs and lows of life as a woman, mother, student, daughter, and Jesus follower. How does one really deal with the emotionality of it all? Sometimes it is just by listening to Skillet at top volume (and dancing), and other days it is gritting my teeth and…
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Blessed are the Self-righteous?
No, this isn’t from the same passage where Jesus talks about the poor in spirit etc, but this is what many believe in our churches. I don’t think this attitude is just in churches, but many of us who grew up in a church have felt the sting of it, and even indulged in it…
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Truth or manipulation?
“I tell women that they are beautiful as a form of manipulation”, my friend confesses to me this morning. “I don’t mean it, because it doesn’t matter to me, but I know it’s a form of control. I want to confess this to you, because Jesus has been showing me that as long as the…
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Patience? What’s that?
“What do you love about Jesus?” was a question that my friend asked me yesterday. I had to think about that for a bit. These last few years I have learned about a new Jesus…not the one I grew up with, the one defined by man…but someone more infinitely beautiful. Someone who really loves. Someone…
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10 things I learned about myself…in women’s ministry.
These last 9 months I have been privileged to serve in the ladies ministry program at our church. It was a schooling that I didn’t expect. 10 things I learned about myself…in women’s ministry. 1. I am not as spiritual as I pretend to be. Yes, we can have a spiritual “look” about us,…
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Women of Today (part 6)
I need nothing but Jesus. He is the only reason I live and breathe on this earth. I will be spending eternity with Him in heaven, and there is nothing on this earth that I will need with me…!! Nothing! I don’t need to be pretty, rich, famous, or smart. I just need Him! My…
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Woman of Today (part 5)
How can we change the system that is part of the very DNA in our culture? There is only 1 answer. That is Jesus! Two thousand years ago He came onto this earth. He went against the very culture of His day. He had women as disciples, women spreading the news of the resurrection, women…
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Woman of Today (part 4)
So where does it come from? I believe it goes back to the day we were created. The devil comes after the woman, tempts her, and God tells the two of them that they would be enemies forever. Genesis 3:15 says, “And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her…
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Woman of Today (part 3)
No wonder we try to get our power through our appearance, because that is the only place we feel like we have any control. We can “control” men and their appetites when we look like an ageless porn star. After all, that is what we are conditioned to believe our worth is, and that is…
