As humans, we try to avoid pain. We do everything we can to fill our soul’s aches and needs by self-medicating. Some turn to drugs and alcohol to cope; others fill our schedules with work 20 hours a day until we drop into bed exhausted; and yet others fill their minds with social media, television, friends, parties, travel, and any kind of noise or distraction just so we wouldn’t have to feel the depth of our pain and need. Because hurting sucks. Having a need only God can - but won’t - fill is really hard. It is the deep, personal, felt needs that maybe no one even knows about but we carry with us every day, year after year.

Theology, PrayerGuest UserFebruary 27, 2020pain, suffering, theology, supplication, prayerComment

What Is Supplication?

Persistent prayer doesn't change God. It changes us. Because it takes everything to keep showing up at His throne with the same request day after day, and more faith than you think you have to keep believing He will answer in His time.

Theology, SinglenessGuest UserFebruary 20, 2020prayer, praying, theology, singleness, supplication, faith Comments

Why We Don't Talk About Church

Wait - is anyone here religious? It’s the follow-up to a slightly off-colored joke. But everyone is talking and the conversation has moved on. I shrug. I’m what most people would consider religious, but I’m not easily offended. It had become normal to “shrug off” my religion. I had left the comfort of the Bible belt and was making my own way in the world.

TheologyMary Elizabeth LatchFebruary 13, 2020Theology Thursdays, theology, religion, lifestyleComment

How To Hear God's Voice

Do you ever find yourself asking God what He wants you to go, and feel like you are not receiving a response? Do you ever pray through a monologue with all your requests to God, but never stop to listen to what He may need to say? Just me?

TheologyWhitney MalloyFebruary 6, 2020theology, Theology Thursdays, Bible study, prophecyComment

What Does It Mean To Be A Help Meet?

As a teenager and into my early twenties, I really didn’t like the marriage set up painted by the church and the Bible. I am not even going to the topic of submission. That’s a topic for another day. No, I want to start with the basics: being a helper to a man.

The Top Theology Podcasts For Women

As we start our Theology Thursdays series, we wanted to share with you some of our favorite podcasts on theology.

TheologyGuest UserJanuary 23, 2020Theology Thursdays, theologyComment

Why It Is Okay To Struggle To Understand the Bible

I was a young Christian and dutiful to follow the Christian checklist exactly. I glued my eyes to the page. I read this verse with all my might and slowly, so that I would not miss one single word of it. But however hard I tried to read and get it in my head, I could not seem to understand it with my heart.

TheologyMolly GonzalezJanuary 20, 2020Bible study, Bible, theology, peace, stress, anxietyComment

Learning to Live with a Living God

There is a section of 2 Kings that I came across, and I think the truths expounded in that saga are not unlike the truths we need to hear now. We are all learning how to live with a living God. It’s easy to live life when God is distant, ancient, and silent. But, that is not who God is, and in 2 Kings 18-19, we find two kings learning what it means to live with a living God.

TheologyMia GraceJanuary 17, 2020Comment

Do Women Need Theology? [NEW SERIES]

Anyone else find the word "theology" intimidating? Please, speak up if you do. I can't be the only one, right? Yes, I know, I write about what I learn from the Bible all the time and I lead a Christian online magazine where we talk about God and the Bible, but if anyone brings theology or theological concepts into the conversation, I panic. It feels way out of my depth. I've even debated going to seminary just to avoid having that feeling.

TheologyGuest UserJanuary 16, 2020Theology Thursdays, Theology, knowledge of God, Bible, Bible studyComment