The Urban Christian Woman Blog
Restoring the Urban Woman with God’s truth for everyday life.
Wait Well
I was in the school pickup line for 20 minutes. I was thinking, wow this is a long line, I could be doing something else. I don't like to wait in long lines at the store, at the gas station, or anywhere. Perhaps my lack of patience gets the best of me. Sometimes waiting is inevitable, so how do I wait well? What is the point of my waiting? What is it that God is growing in me during this lapse in time?
The Grave of Good Friday: Ezra’s Example of Repentance
As the days warm and flowers bloom, it’s so easy for us as Christian women to jump right into the celebration of Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. This year especially, we are eager for the fulfilled promise of new life. But in order to more fully understand the wonder of the Resurrection, we must again recognize why Christ went to the grave at all.
When Friendship Births Discipleship
As urban women of faith, there are many places in the Bible we can look to examine the topic of discipleship. Within scripture, the people God uses to point us to discipleship may in fact unearth our perceived ideas of what Biblical discipleship looks like.
Lessons of Discipleship from the Book of Ruth
The Book of Ruth is rich with relational wisdom. We learn many lessons from the relationship between Ruth and her Kinsman-Redeemer, Boaz. But another relationship we glean from is the relationship between Naomi and Ruth.
A Benjamin Button Revolution: Becoming More Childlike in Christ
In the movie Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt, Benjamin is born as a very old man. Over the years, while everyone else is growing older, he grows younger until he becomes and infant again. I too must revert back to a time when I simply relished in being the child and in Him being the Father. For so long, I believed that God was insisting on my “#adulting” my faith.