Recently I’ve been making my way through the book of Genesis. It’s not the first time, but it is the first time since taking a…
Author: Samantha Swanson
Understand This & You Will Never Read the Bible the Same Again
“I don’t see how the Bible applies to my life.” “I find the Bible more dry and confusing than anything else.” “I feel like I’m…
Church Just Never Felt Like “Home” & Now It Does
I was that kid who loved going to church. It never bored me and it never felt like something my parents forced onto me. In…
Confession: I strongly dislike confession.
Just under a year ago, I sat in a coffee shop with a close, trusted friend of mine. I admitted to a sin I had…
Lessons from the Kitchen Floor of My Dorm
My roommate for the first two years of college has become one of my closest friends. She and I experienced a lot of college life…
How to Worship When You’d Rather Not
The other day, I read Psalm 42: a psalm full of such brutal honesty that I felt like I was intruding on someone’s private journal.…
Should Christians Expect Non-Believers to Save Sex for Marriage?
In C. S. Lewis’ classic, Mere Christianity, he writes a chapter on Christian marriage. To start, he writes that he wishes he could pass over…
If Only I Were You… {Part 3}
In the last post, we talked about the seriousness and root cause of envy. Today, it's time to tie the story together with the third piece of a three…
If Only I Were You… {Part 2}
Last time, I started sharing a story, leading into what God’s been teaching me about envy (Part 1 of a three part series). If you…
If Only I Were You… {Part 1}
Have you ever wanted what someone else had? Or maybe, have you wanted to be who someone else was? Me too. Oh, envy. It’s an…