Living Between the Lines

I promised myself that I’d go to bed early tonight to be ready for early service in the morning and yet, I find myself wide awake praying, crying, and writing… And dealing with the implications of a question that God asked me today: Has there ever been a day when the need for Jesus has [...]

Welcome to the second installment of For Girls Only! Same rules as last time: Boys who stick around are doing so at their own risk. And ladies, feel free to share—anonymously if you wish—or you may contact me at smsalter78@yahoo.com. ******************************************************** Ladies, you may remember that last Friday on Girls Only Day, I shared about [...]

Today is our second discussion about Anne Jackson’s book, Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic. If you missed last week’s discussion, you can find it here. However, even if you haven’t read the book, I believe you can still enjoy the discussion and I hope you will stay and do just that. Chapter 2 [...]

Here at the One Word at a Time Blog Carnival, we’ve been working our way through the fruits of the Spirit and have now made our way to “kindness.” But although there are scriptures about kindness, the two scriptures that kept coming to my mind were these two: Mark 12:29-31 “The most important one is [...]

Today I’m beginning a new series that I’m going to run on Fridays that I’m calling “For Girls Only.” Gentlemen, may I suggest you leave now? If you don’t, please know that I won’t be held responsible for what you see or hear or get embarrassed by. If you do, by chance, hang around, please [...]

Today we begin the book discussion of Mad Church Disease by Anne Jackson. I will be taking turns with my friend Jason Stasyszen and alas, we decided that he would start us out. So, grab your book and follow me to his site, Connecting to Impact for our discussion on Chapter 1. Then, you can [...]

Now that I have victoriously survived Valentine’s Day (aka Singles Awareness Day), I felt like it was good timing to re-run this post that I originally ran last Spring. Happy belated Valentine’s Day! I’ve got a quote from Liz Curtis Higgs running through my mind today and I can’t get my mind off of it.  [...]

One of the coolest things about my life since I’ve met Jesus is that He has set me out on an adventure. My life is rarely boring. I occasionally get overwhelmed, but God’s working on teaching me balance and the adventuresome life is great practice for learning those lessons. Today was another one of those [...]

For the last seven days, folks from all over (literally as far as Thailand) have been entering my very first book giveaway of Anne Jackson’s life-changing book, “Mad Church Disease.” I have been pretty vocal about why this book is special to me. Beginning NEXT Wednesday, my friend Pastor Jason Stasyszen and I will be [...]

Today is our regularly scheduled One Word at a Time Blog Carnival, hostessed by my wonderful, fabulous friend, Bridget Chumbley. To read the other posts in the carnival, please visit her site by clicking HERE. Today’s topic is “patience” and I have to be honest, that’s not something that I have a whole lot of. [...]