Category: Wisdom Weekends

  • Seasons: Embracing Dormancy

    There are four seasons in a year. Now, not everyone experiences the seasons the same in all places. If you live in the Southern hemisphere, you’re experiencing summer while the Northern hemisphere is experiencing winter. Some places have all four seasons but the nuances are muted, like places near to the equator. Some places have…

  • Fences.

    I volunteer at a community garden in the middle of New York City. We have raised beds, native plants, a compost system, and chickens. Yes, chickens. In the middle of Manhattan. Chickens are greedy creatures. If they think they can get food, or if they think it might be food, they will do everything they…

  • Intercessory Prayer

    Seeing God save 95 lives during COVID? Seeing God bring people into salvation? Saving my loved one from alcoholism? Seeing the Lord provide emergency money needed – every time? Being saved from demonic attacks in my sleep? Bringing revival to college campuses across the United States? Intercession can be a pivotal practice as a believer,…

  • Relational Communication 312: Getting Healthy Enough to Engage & Knowing When to Stop

    This is part 5 and the last of a series on relational communication, equipping people to enter into relationships in a more healthy and loving way. I highly recommend starting with part 1 of this series and continuing on from there as this post draws upon points already established in previous parts. You’ve learned all the skills.…

  • Relational Communication 311: Changing Someone’s Mind

    This is part 4 of a series on relational communication, equipping people to enter into relationships in a more healthy and loving way. I highly recommend starting with part 1 of this series and continuing on from there as this post draws upon points already established in previous parts. Have you ever wanted to change someone’s mind?…

  • Relational Communication 301: Communicating Well on Platforms to an Ambiguous Audience

    This is part 3 of a series on relational communication, equipping people to enter into relationships in a more healthy and loving way. I highly recommend starting with part 1 of this series as this post draws upon points already established in parts 1 and 2. We’ve all been there with social media. We posted something and…

  • Discerning Your Calling

    He leaned forward, squeezing himself out from in between the other bodies piled into the back seat. His perfect black hair poked between the driver and myself. “Shelly, what brings you to ReVoice? Why LGBTQ+ ministry?” It was a carload of coworkers, truly a motley crew of campus ministers from all over the United States,…