Building Bridges & Burning Ships: Part 11

At this point in time, throughout my years of serving Tirzah Ministries, you have heard the behind the scenes story of my time of preparation. You’ve seen what it’s like to burn ships - to destroy old ideas and concepts that no longer serve the future God has planned for me. I can’t say it is easy to be transparent about your life. However, I have been so fortunate to have so many AMAZING women ministry leaders, authors, and pastor’s wives pour into me. I may never meet you in person, but I hope my stories teach you and your ability to share your story on Tirzah inspire you to a deeper faith.

Community, Justice and MissionsAlycia MarieAugust 18, 2021building bridges, burning ships, seriesComment

Building Bridges & Burning Ships: Part 10

I never saw myself continuing this story yet again. We’re talking about Burning ships & Building Bridges again, but this time I’ll pull you back out of leadership and into my personal world. I’ll never forget the week of February 21st. It was the week I burned ships, so I could learn to build bridges.

CommunityAlycia MarieAugust 13, 2021building bridges, burning ships, series, communityComment

Building Bridges & Burning Ships: Part 9

This is the beginning conclusion of my “Burning Ships & Building Bridges” series. The next three parts are actually going to pull you into the final chapter of “How God Led Me to Start a Home for Teen Mothers”. What I hope you learn from this is that there are topics that are important here on earth. They are important for us to understand and learn how to build bridges versus burning ships. All of the topics I’ve discussed have been temporal issues - gender, race, sexuality, pro-life, and more. The final issue that is most temporal of all that I want to discuss is everyone’s favorite topic, politics.

CommunityAlycia MarieAugust 12, 2021politics, building bridges, burning ships, seriesComment

Building Bridges & Burning Ships: Part 8

In the United States, today’s war seems to fall more along black and white than Jew or Greek. It is interesting to me how people think victimization of a race is new and unique. When we look throughout history, we can go all the way back in time to the war between the Jews and the Greeks in the Bible. All over the world there are culture clashes and race wars. There are the Hutus and Tutsis in Africa, the apartheid in South Africa, and a war in the Slavic areas that broke out because of people in different countries marrying one another!

Community, Justice and MissionsAlycia MarieAugust 4, 2021building bridges, burning ships, series, racismComment

Building Bridges & Burning Ships: Part 7

Since we’ve been on the topic of gender for the last few weeks, I thought it would be great to shift gears to everyone’s favorite topic - sexuality. In the 21st century, sexuality is our new identity. Why?

Community, RelationshipsAlycia MarieJuly 28, 2021building bridges, burning ships, series, sexualityComment

Building Bridges & Burning Ships: Part 6

I should clarify, “Building Bridges & Burning Ships” is a culmination of what I have learned throughout my young adult years in leadership. It was a long road to learn these lessons with mistakes along the way, times where bridges were burned and ships were built, instead of bringing unity there was disunity. Times where I found myself in the middle of disunity, instead of unity.

CommunityAlycia MarieJuly 22, 2021building bridges, burning ships, part 6, seriesComment

Building Bridges & Burning Ships: Part 5

Last time we talked about burning ships and building bridges. We touched on my choice to not be in church leadership as a female. I want to tell you about a conversation that I had with an elder’s wife last week on the day that article came out.

Community, LifestyleAlycia MarieJuly 15, 2021building bridges, burning ships, seriesComment