Jacqueline L. Coleman First Chapters

Woman, Thou Art Restored

There is a widely recognized battle going on in the Church; a battle which is mirrored internally and externally by women across the globe. The question of just how much and where women can serve in the Church is tearing individuals and families apart. It is breaking hearts, crushing souls, and driving once strong Christian women to take their own lives.

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The Yellow Cottage

In the middle of the bustling city, tucked between cookie cutter skyscrapers, sat a bright yellow cottage. It’s five wooden steps, placed perfectly in a row and flawlessly crafted so that a child could run fingers across the grains of wood and not gain a splinter, ended in a cozy front porch decked with several wooden rocking chairs in a myriad of colors that invited passersby to sit for just a moment.
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Biblical Mentoring:

What Some of Our Favorite Biblical Characters Teach Us About Mentoring

When my daughter was in elementary school, she expressed distress over having so many peers in her life. Her concern was that she couldn’t possibly be friends with that many people. It would take too much work. She wanted to have only a few close friends who would receive the focus of her time.

Upon receiving this information from her, I began a discussion regarding Jesus’ concentric circles of relationships. He was first circled by His inner three (Peter, James, and John), then by His 12 disciples and the women who traveled with Him. Beyond that He established close relationships with people such as Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. Reaching out even further, He gave teachings to large crowds and to individuals either one on one (the woman at the well) or with others looking on (the man who couldn’t give up his earthly riches).

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Turning Over Tables:

Learning to Question the "Why" and Advocating for Change

To alter a tradition, a custom, a practice, that is going on around us, we must first step back, look at it and ask, “Why? Why is this practice occurring, is it okay, and is it something that we should dispose of or alter to keep part of it?” And therein lies the problem that we most often face. We tend to not notice what is going on around us, or even in us. We just keep pushing through life, often in disobedience to what God has for us, not even realizing this disobedience is occurring because we are only doing what we have always done. We fail to make space in our lives for God to point out the wrong and to arrest our attention so that He can turn over our tables, leading us to question the “Why?” and then to advocate for change.

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