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The Brave Grace of Lent
Deciding to follow Jesus is truly unique. On one side, the joy and peace found through faith in Christ are unparalleled. The presence of...

Jennifer Kelly
Mar 43 min read
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The Prayer Waltz: Practicing the Presence of God
"Does prayer work or doesn't it? Is it right for me to ask God for particular outcomes, when God alone knows what is right? Are words...

Jennifer Kelly
Feb 56 min read
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A Winter Harvest: A Flourishing (Cold) Soul in Blossom
The bottom of my feet are burning from the aching cold outside. This seems contradictory and weird but let me assure you … the pain is...

Jennifer Kelly
Jan 153 min read
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Where Are You Going? The God Who Sees: Sarai & Hagar
Hagar is a handmaid and a foreigner. Raised in Egypt, and now living with strange new masters, she lives with the unspoken truth that...

Jennifer Kelly
Jul 23, 20249 min read
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The Brave Grace of Lent: Week 2 // The Road Less Traveled
Ever since I can remember, I've always pictured the season of winter as the end. Like a good American girl, I fit the ordinance of God's...

Jennifer Kelly
Mar 9, 20225 min read
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Brave Grace: The Journey of Lent.
Life often brings catastrophic news that can blow its first punch like lightning. Trauma is seismic in the beginning. But the reality of...

Jennifer Kelly
Mar 2, 20225 min read
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Encourage Me With Substance
It was that kind of morning. The un-showered, pajama-clad, and (late-to-everything-in-life) kind of start. The fuzzy, gradual, transition...

Jennifer Kelly
Aug 5, 20214 min read
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Living Hope: Choosing Light in Darkness
Disappointment always hits the gut first. Inhale ... Exhale. Unwanted news blows its first punch like lightning, but the reality of...

Jennifer Kelly
Jun 3, 20215 min read
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Voices That Testify: The Bleeding Woman
She had been bleeding for twelve years. How easy is it to read over seven simple words and miss the absolute insufferable position of a...

Jennifer Kelly
Mar 31, 20215 min read
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Voices That Testify: Hagar
I love to run my fingers through the pages of my Bible and revisit stories of brave men and women who have encountered God in...

Jennifer Kelly
Mar 24, 20216 min read
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Voices That Testify: Achsah
I stumbled upon Achsah’s confusing snippet in Scripture years ago. At first glance, I was highly perplexed as to why her story even...

Jennifer Kelly
Mar 17, 20215 min read
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Voices That Testify: Rahab
Rahab. Most simply remember her as the prostitute that helped the Israelite spies escape with a scarlet rope in hand. But I don’t want...

Jennifer Kelly
Mar 10, 20215 min read
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Voices That Testify: The Sinner
Although there are accounts of a certain woman anointing Jesus in all four Gospels, the Lukan story is the one that settles in my heart...

Jennifer Kelly
Mar 3, 20214 min read
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Heritage: Voices That Testify
When Miriam led the women out of Egypt, with a tambourine in hand, she sang and lifted up praise to the God who hurls horses and riders...

Jennifer Kelly
Feb 24, 20215 min read
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In-between Grace: Forgiven & Free
When you turn to the living God from darkness and death, Jesus doesn’t just resuscitate you … he resurrects, re-orientates, and renews you.

Jennifer Kelly
Feb 15, 20215 min read
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Our Father: A Meditation
Something in my soul feels like it's jilted and hyperventilating. Every turn feels a bit hap-hazardous: COVID-19, the election, national...

Jennifer Kelly
Nov 10, 20204 min read
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The God Who Brings Us to Himself
Something inside me whispers that I need to go back and start at the beginning of The Story. To nestle in and pay attention ...

Jennifer Kelly
Oct 1, 20204 min read
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Creation & Grace: The Sheer Wonder of Delight
Why do we start with sin most of the time? Too often, grace comes after the fact. Our fallenness is not the most fundamental thing about us.

Jennifer Kelly
Aug 10, 20205 min read
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Her Inner Loathing & Surrender
It's been a long day at work and she's late getting home again. She takes a quick glance at her phone and notices the same three...

Jennifer Kelly
Apr 26, 20193 min read
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Waiting: The Revealing Faith
"Your decisions are the direct result of truly knowing yourself" -Erwin McManus She orders coffee and looks around the room, looking for...

Jennifer Kelly
Feb 13, 20192 min read
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