by Ali Kennedy | Sep 10, 2023 | Fuel for Maturing Faith, New Year
Who Are You IN Christ? I just celebrated my 40th Birthday this year. If you are anything like the 22-year-old friend I was speaking to at church, you may be wondering how it feels to be saying good-bye to my twenties and thirties. Gulp. Well, I never thought I would...
by Ali Kennedy | Jan 28, 2022 | Fuel for Maturing Faith, Fuel Up Fridays, New Year
Friends invited us to have dinner recently and I found myself saying, “Just name a time and place and we’ll be there!” When it comes to meeting with friends, we’re often eager to make time in our busy schedules. In fact, the first thing my husband and I do is mark it...
by Ali Kennedy | Jan 24, 2022 | Fuel for Maturing Faith, New Year, Theology Tuesdays
When we lived in Oxford, I remember one cold January morning walking my favorite path along the canal, pondering deeply: What kind of year had it been as it pertained to my spiritual life? When the Fog Sets In Several answers swirled through my mind as I continued to...
by Ali Kennedy | Jan 5, 2022 | Fuel for Maturing Faith, New Year, Theology Tuesdays
What comes to mind when you hear the word “promise?” Perhaps, like me, you think of promises you’ve kept…promises you’ve broken…promises others have kept…or promises they said they would keep, and didn’t. Christian ethicist Lewis Smedes wrote an article entitled...
by Ali Kennedy | Jan 28, 2011 | Fuel for Maturing Faith, New Year
“Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there he prayed” (Mark 1:35) Every time Jesus faced an important decision, he prayed. Every time He was faced with temptation, he prayed. When he had to...
