Hi, everyone! I am writing to let you know about a little “add-on” to the SHINE schedule this year — one I am super excited about! On Friday afternoon we will be adding a Q & A panel/luncheon. This will be a smaller, more intimate enviroment designed to strengthen your inner world. Our featured guests on this panel will be three of my good friends from ARC (Association of Related Churches).
All of these girls, besides being pastors of thriving local churches, are amazing wives, moms, friends, and leaders. But like you, they are also trying to find their way step by step on this crazy journey of life. In my opinion, they have all done an incredible job of keeping it fun, keeping it real, and still setting high standards of excellence in their personal and professional lives. I hope you will grab a few of your friends and join us for lunch Friday to hang out and chat for a bit.
Finally, I could really use your help in making this panel as meaningful and relevant as possible. I could come up with some questions for our panel guest, but I’d rather hear from you — what questions do you want answered? No topic is off-limits. Let me know which topics and/or questions you would like us to address, and we will build the session around what you most want to hear. You can post the questions in the comments section of this blog or you can email them to me at info@shineinc.org. Can’t wait to hear from you — thanks for your help!
Love,
Kerri xx
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My ex-husband claims to be a Christian, but lives an obviously non-Christian life. He’s moved in his girlfriend and the girlfriend’s teenage daughter. My 7 year old child goes to his house regularly for visitation.
How do I handle my child’s questions about why her dad is not walking as a Christian? She doesn’t understand why he is “disobeying the Bible”.
Also, he tells her his way of life is fine, but I don’t want her to think his way of life is okay. I don’t want her to think cohabitating is fine, but she sees her dad doing it and it must be influencing her to some extent. I don’t want her to think that’s how men are supposed to treat women.
Signed,
It’s a constant battle
I want to know how to balance my life and ministry especially when I start seminary school hopefully in the fall.
Thanks,
Rei
I’ve been working on submitting to my husband. I’d love to hear some thoughts about submission to a husband who does not walk with God.
Also, I am an overwhelmed stay at home mom to three kids 5 and under. I am finding it challenging to get through the day without having a grumbling spirit. Lately I’ve been finding myself angry at God for putting me in this very challenging sitution.
I would like to know how to deal with a husband who is addicted to video games. Since I am a Quality Time person, his desire to play video games 8 hours a day and not sleep is of great concern to me. I love him, but it hard not to be very angry with him for his lack of relationship with me and our son.
How do you press on when your friends who claim they are Christians act boldly against what they stand for?
I just want to first, THANK YOU Kerri, for being so comfortable with your husband’s testimony and allowing him to speak so boldly about the truth regarding premarital sex and porn and drugs, and all the other evils that are so rampant in our society. I really appreciate his honesty and boldness in “telling it like it is”.
This morning a coworker emailed us to tell us her daughter, age 21, had been murdered this morning by her ex boyfriend, who then killed himself. Stovall is so “right on” when he talks about the dangers of sexual intimacy outside of marriage, and how you always leave a piece of your own soul with that person forever. That is why, in my mind, people become desparate when sexual relationships end, and will do anything to get that person back, because they are trying to recapture that part of their own soul. It is the only explanation that satisfies my mind as to why someone would kill someone they claim to have loved, rather than let that person go.
I pray that Stovall would continue to be outspoken about these truths, and I pray that he would reach the teens and young people who so often don’t want to hear this from those closer to them.
Thank you again, and please let your light SHINE on! See you tonight!