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Brave Women Series
Every Wednesday a different woman will be featured as she shares about her personal journey toward courage with Jesus. These stories are powerful, real and straight from the heart. Sign up HERE to have the weekly BRAVE stories sent straight to your inbox. You will not want to miss a single article in this series!
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The Bravest Thing We Can Do After Relationships Break: Letting Go of Our Shame
By Heather Lobe Johnson God's Brave Women - Heather's Story When my now-husband and I first started dating, I was a single mom with a...
Brave Women Series
Jul 13, 20215 min read
You Don't Have to Feel Brave to Be It: How God's Courage Is More Than Enough
By Rachel Fahrenbach God's Brave Women - Rachel's Story I dial my husband’s cell and whisper “come on, pick up” with gusto, as if merely...
Brave Women Series
Jul 7, 20215 min read
Growing into Bravery After a Child's Life-Altering Medical Diagnosis
By Jodie Pine God's Brave Women - Jodie's Story I find myself living in the before and after within the framework of diagnosis. But I've...
Brave Women Series
Jun 29, 20216 min read
Anxiety and Depression Don’t Disqualify You from Being Brave
By Becky Keife God's Brave Women - Becky's Story One of the hardest things about anxiety and depression (at least for me) is not being...
Brave Women Series
Jun 22, 20217 min read
Boldly Say It's Not Enough: Embracing Our Longing for More
By Ana Nunez God's Brave Women - Ana's Story It’s perplexing to enjoy my life and still experience a strange longing for home; a vague...
Brave Women Series
Jun 14, 20216 min read
Getting Unstuck from Fear: How Surfing Helped Me Find My Courage and Joy
By Angie Gibbons God's Brave Women - Angie's Story I like to say that I surf. But what I do has more in common with a baby who has just...
Brave Women Series
Jun 8, 20215 min read
From Atheist to Surrendered Daughter: A Brave Journey of Belief
By Mariel Davenport God's Brave Women - Mariel's Story I don’t know the first time I declared myself an atheist. By the time I entered...
Brave Women Series
Jun 1, 20216 min read
Using Our Doubt as a Catalyst for Courage
By Casey Hilty God's Brave Women - Casey's Story There’s a bit of irony happening behind the scenes of my post for the Brave Women...
Brave Women Series
May 25, 20217 min read
When Bad News Comes: Holding on to God's Unchanging Character
By Kim Caifano God's Brave Women - Kim's Story I sat in my son’s doctor’s office alone, staring at the library of books in front of me....
Brave Women Series
May 17, 20215 min read
The Courageous Life of a Full-time Caregiver: Loving a Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor
By Melanie Vadzemnieks God's Brave Women - Melanie's Story Life as a caregiver is not a path anyone willingly chooses. Rather, we are...
Brave Women Series
May 11, 20215 min read
Bravery When Friendship Hurts
By Becky Gonzalez God's Brave Women - Becky's Story It was my 30th birthday, and I was basking in the glow of my surprise party. Despite...
Brave Women Series
May 4, 20216 min read
Embracing Who God Made Us to Be: Brave Words from an Asian American Sister
By Susan Park God's Brave Women - Susan's Story I remember the early morning darkness alone in my hotel room as God gently asked me,...
Brave Women Series
Apr 27, 20215 min read
Daring to Put Jesus First: Giving Our Dreams and Decisions to God
By Andrea P. Bourgeois God's Brave Women - Andrea's Story It was New Year’s Day in 2009 and I laid there staring at the ceiling on my...
Brave Women Series
Apr 20, 20215 min read
Building Courage Through Small Acts of Bravery
By Katy Epling God's Brave Women - Katy's Story “Mommy, come walk the plank with me!” Splashes, squeals, and laughter surrounded us as my...
Brave Women Series
Apr 13, 20215 min read
Finding the Courage to Face Childhood Sexual Abuse and Trauma
By Maria Fonseca God's Brave Women - Maria's Story There’s a stigma associated with people when they are admitted to a psychiatric...
Brave Women Series
Apr 6, 20215 min read
Giving Our Broken Marriages to God: How to Walk Through an Unwanted Divorce Bravely
By Heather Jeffery God's Brave Women - Heather's Story I’ll never forget the one sentence that instantly changed my life. As we prepared...
Brave Women Series
Mar 30, 20216 min read
Letting Anxiety Lead Us to Jesus Instead of Judgment
By JJ Gutierrez God's Brave Women - JJ's Story Here I sit again. Butterflies flapping wildly in my belly and anxious thoughts racing from...
Brave Women Series
Mar 23, 20215 min read
When Our Prayers Aren't Answered the Way We Hoped
By Carly Webber God's Brave Women - Carly's Story Have you ever begged God so hard for a thing that you thought it might just break you?...
Brave Women Series
Mar 15, 20215 min read
Choosing Grace Over Guilt: A Brave Lesson on the Effects of Shame
By Julie Lefebure God's Brave Women - Julie's Story The weight on my chest made it hard to breathe. I guess it had resided there for so...
Brave Women Series
Mar 9, 20216 min read
Tearing Down the Stigma Behind Suicide: Bravely Talking About Mental Illness
By Pamela Henkelman God's Brave Women - Pamela's Story Four years ago, the kind funeral director hauled more chairs into the overflow...
Brave Women Series
Mar 2, 20215 min read
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