Your Story Matters

My favorite stories are the ones I never want to end. The plot is so well devised, the characters so beloved, that it’s honestly a little heartbreaking to think about leaving them once the last [...]

We sat across the room from each other for three or four days, but we didn’t speak much. Maybe a smile or two were exchanged on occasion, but all I knew about the girl with long black hair [...]

Do you ever look back at a moment or decision in your life and think “What was the purpose of that?” or “How does that have anything to do with where I’m at now?” I’ve had a lot of those moments. [...]

In his short e-book “Building You Leadership Story”, Michael Kass states the following: “Story is the basic building blocks of community. Long before we had writing, equations, double blind [...]

Vulnerability can be hard. Will we be judged? Will people think differently of us? Will we lose some of our friends? Are we the only ones who have gone through this? So many thoughts run through [...]

This fall, as I stood at 14,000 feet on top of a mountain, I was reminded of how many times I’ve let fear dictate my actions and deter me from really diving head first into life and into my [...]

It’s special when God uses others to encourage us along His journey for our lives, isn’t it? When I think about using our stories to help bring others into God’s story for their [...]

Don’t ever let someone tell you that your story doesn’t matter – because it does. Your story defines who you are and who you want to become. My story sounds like the plot of a Lifetime movie most [...]

Every Tuesday during staff lunch at Cross Point, we go around the room sharing stories from the week before about life change and what God is doing in and through our church. It’s a really cool [...]

For the longest time, I didn’t think I had a story—or at least, not an interesting one to share. Growing up as a pastor’s daughter, I was introduced to Jesus early on and have always felt a [...]