Cassie L. Wilson

Learning to be the light

Pray Expectantly: Why You Need to Expect an Answer

Inside: why you should expect an answer when you pray

Confession: I am not a fan of radio preaching.

I don’t know what it is about it (actually, I think I do), but most times, I just flip the station to some Christian music instead.

Don’t get me wrong. I think radio preaching is a wonderful thing. Most people listen to the radio in the car (unless you’re a crazy person, and, well, I can’t help you there), so it only makes sense to share the Gospel on the radio.

But… I am just not a fan. I think it’s why I’m also not a fan of online church. (Thank you, Pandemic, for forcing most of us to have to resort to online churchin‘.) I don’t have a major problem with online church either.

But, for me, I just like to be there. In-person. Watching the preacher pour his heart out. Praying I’m not in the splash zone. (If you know, you know. Ha!)

So, imagine my surprise when I caught myself listening to a sermon on the radio as I was running errands.

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Hope and Faith: 2021’s Words of the Year

Inside: filling 2021 with hope and leaning on some faith

Can you believe we are finally at the end of 2020?? I don’t know about you, but I was entirely too hopeful about the start of the New Year around this time last year.

And, then, 2020 came around and knocked us all for a loop. I think it is safe to say 2020 has been… not great.

Don’t get me wrong, there were some really good things that happened in 2020. I finished grad school (which, dear reader, is one reason I haven’t been blogging as much. There are some other reasons, but that’s a different post). And, by the grace of God, I passed my Spanish Praxis test (that’s a good story of faith, too!).

But, as I’m sure it’s the same with most of us this year, the bad seems to outweigh the good.

2020 has been hard. It’s been painful, chaotic, and downright hurtful.

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