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![The Best Christmas Pageant Ever… [a holiday movie review]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/30C39796-049F-4F25-A03F-EA5BDC534981-scaled.jpeg)
I had no idea what to expect when I walked into an early screening of The Best Christmas Pageant Everš last Saturday. Since I hadnāt read the book or seen the stage production, I guess I expected something of a Junie B. Jones, elementary reader nature. But instead, I encountered a wondrous story of Godās…
![How to Love the World… [one challenging circumstance at a time]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/0793C85F-A059-44BE-8D72-81D06F7E9EB2.png)
When I issued the very first LOVE challenge to myself and asked others to join, what I really desired in this world more than anything was to be one of those ārare Christiansā Tozer talked about. A Christ-follower whose very presence compelled others to become ābetter Christiansā themselves. Apart from God, none of us are…
![How to Love Your Enemy… [When Evil Strikes]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/80D7B089-0A6D-4727-A587-1B1EA131E7DA.png)
If God really does exist, then why do bad things happen? Putting aside the age old question, temporarily. Do you believe evil exists? I doubt anyone denies evil exists. I think enough evidence exists to prove otherwise. But surely, if evil exists, then goodness must exist, too. And if the battle of good and evil…
How do you love your enemy?Ā Jesus loved in all sorts of challenging circumstances, but none more difficult than Mount Calvary. As he hung on the cross, Jesusā prayed for his enemies [Luke 23:34]. When praying for our enemies, it becomes easier to love them. Praying for our enemy opens our hearts and allows us…
![How to Love The Unlovableā¦ [in the wake of another tragedy]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/9916C315-6131-4A51-90E8-E3AA83992B54.png)
Every time I hear of another school shooting, I always return to the same, recurring thought. āWoe is the suffering/misery this person surely endured to have committed such an unfathomable act of horror.ā Often youāll read the words, āI hope the killer rots in hell.ā But clearly theyāve already experienced hell. Hell on this earth….
![Understanding Evil and Sharing Godās loveā¦ [in the wake of the Murdaugh Murders]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/72E645C7-FF56-4574-BAAA-3EBAF938CA2D.jpeg)
So much of the Alex Murdaugh case reminds me of my own days of chasing justice. When you come up against pure evil, it becomes life-changing. You truly grasp the reality that evil walks amongst us. And the enemy of our souls is indeed present on this earth and hard at work to destroy us….
Weāve all been “ghosted” in some form or fashion in our lifetime, havenāt we? Perhaps weāve even ghosted a person or two ourselves?Ā āGhostingā occurs when someone suddenly cuts off communication with you without any explanation, leaving the āghostedā person scratching their heads wondering, What went wrong!? Ghosting, in most instances, says more about the…
![Talk to Your Kids… [Active Shooter Alert: The Call No Parent Wants to Receive]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/0F8C2CC7-7265-4C67-B4FE-DE28DE7A004D.png)
One fall morning in 2015, I received a call no parent wants to receive… An active shooter was reported on my daughterās campus. And not only was the shooter in her immediate vicinity, but he was headed towards the College of Business. As she took cover in a professorās office along with her classmates, we…
![Godās [Amazing] Graceā¦](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/82344DE5-AFBE-49FE-9753-6EDB5FBDF097.png)
At the heart of accepting The Love Challenge is a āholy yearningā for Godās LOVE to illuminate your life. When we meet the challenge to love a broken world with Godās amazing grace and unfathomable love, we are transformed to Christ-likeness. LOVE is the light of the world and extraordinary grace the distinguishing mark of…