Gracefully Frank

Don’t AssumeAs a single adult in my late 40s serving in ministry, counseling, and coaching, I’ve had many opportunities to hear the stories, hearts, and relationship goals of unmarried individuals. Recent Pew Research shows 40% of Christian adults (aged 30-64) are single. Our responses to and contentment with being unmarried vary greatly. However, in many of our experiences, the perceptions of unmarried adults in this age range tend not to vary greatly. Especially in our...

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Do your own words ever come back to bite you? These don’t actually bite, but they are gracious reminders to not go backwards when I’m tempted. This is a lesson I learned a while ago, and now have the opportunity to recall and be strengthened by in this season. Ebenezer words, if you will. In my corner of the world and work there is a lot going on in anticipation of some good things coming....

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I have been egregious in drawing conclusions multiple times. If you google the word egregious you get definitions like "outstandingly bad" and "extraordinary in some bad way." Not like mean bad, just super wrong. It’s usually centered on me trying to figure out what God was doing or what someone else was doing. I’ve definitely had my share of times when I was right (I want to type out loud for the record), but I've...

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