by Brie | Oct 30, 2017 | Faith, Fear, Stories
In July of this year (2017) I attended the Pinky Promise Conference and it changed my life. They had phenomenal speakers, delicious food and fantastic fellowship. Out of all the phenomenal things that happened, however, one takeaway superseded the rest. Cornelius...
by Brie | Oct 27, 2017 | Faith, Fear, Stories, Trials
Immediately Jesus reached out His hand, caught hold of him and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” Matthew 14:31 The irony of Matthew 14:31 is striking. Two verses prior, Jesus tells Peter to climb out of a boat and Peter becomes the only man other...
by Brie | Oct 1, 2017 | Faith, Feature, motivation, Purpose
Jeanita Spikes is the owner of Painted and Polished – a salon and spa in Frisco, Texas. She first got into nails at the age of 13. She had no way of knowing that a routine trip to the Southside of Chicago to get a manicure for her eighth grade graduation would...
by Brie | Sep 18, 2017 | Faith, Fear, motivation, Purpose, Stories
I wasn’t looking for a publisher one Tuesday morning when I received a phone call from Covenant Books. Nevertheless, I knew the call wasn’t an accident because I’d just started a fast about my devotional two days prior. “Hi this is *Barbara with Covenant Books. I was...
by Brie | Sep 11, 2017 | Faith, Stories
Have you ever done something crazy? Something you had second thoughts about even while you were in the process of doing it? You talked about it out loud to make it real but something inside you still said – you must be joking. That’s how I felt the night I stopped...
by Brie | Sep 4, 2017 | Faith, Fear, Purpose
No one ever talks about how it feels to find out you’re pregnant and not be excited about it. Instead, everyone goes straight to the “children are a blessing” conversation. But as I walked through the kitchen to my husband, positive pregnancy test in hand, I wasn’t...