Have you ever struggled to choose forgiveness over bitterness in the midst of feeling rejected, abandoned, or hurt? Maybe you’re there right now as you prepare to spend time with friends and family over the holidays. Deep hurts from loved ones can feel so very raw and unresolved in the midst of a season that’s…
A Prayer for When You Feel Rejected
We live in a broken world, where rejection— even from fellow Christians— could be just around the corner. But there is good news as we wait in expectation for God’s ultimate redemption! And that is Jesus. Jesus brought with Him a love that remains . . . is constant . . . stays the same.…
Living Loved
I can’t expect any other person to be my soul oxygen. I can’t live as if my next breath depends on whether or not they give me enough air for my lungs not to be screaming in pain. Because here’s the thing. People don’t mind doing CPR on a crisis victim, but no person is…
Uninvited: The Gifts of Rejection
Anything that infuses us with humility is good. Even if it feels a bit like humiliation in the moment, the workings of humility within are a gift. The tweaking of us by God in the quiet is the saving of us in public. The only difference between humility and humiliation is that one chose to…
Holy Land Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Holy Land?
Quiz: How much do you know about the Holy Land? How well do you know the places of the Holy Land, and how they connect to the Bible? Test your knowledge of the Bible and Holy Land geography in this fun new quiz from our friends at Bible Gateway! It’s just 10 questions with some…
Humility: To Love God Is to Cooperate with His Grace
There is a woman named Abigail in 1 Samuel 25 who had to decide between grace and bitterness. Abigail was a woman well acquainted with hardship, negative people, rejection, and things not turning out as I’m sure she wished they would. But somehow she remained steady. And her steadiness proved to have a profound impact…
Uninvited Q&A with Lysa TerKeurst
Watch this Special Video Message from Lysa Just for Us! A Conversation with Lysa TerKeurst about Rejection and Living Loved 1. What inspired you to write Uninvited? Most of the time when I write a book I’m on the other side of whatever issue I’m tackling. So, when I wrote Uninvited, I thought I was writing…
Uninvited Session One: Living Loved
Live from a deep assurance that you are fully loved, and you won’t find yourself begging others for scraps of love. Live loved. If you were to write the definition of love, what would it be? If you were to write the definition of rejection, what would it be? Watch the Session One Video: Living…
You Are Invited to Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst
He has sent me… to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. — Isaiah 61:1-3 Friends, the Uninvited Online Bible Study by Lysa TerKeurst starts August 20th and you are invited! On video, Lysa took a…
Desperate for Reassurance
Whatever is true… think about such things… And the God of peace will be with you. — Philippians 4:8b, Philippians 4:9b (NIV) If you’ve ever heard me give my testimony, you know part of what I share is being a little girl twirling around next to my daddy, wishing I could know that he loved…
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