Brenda Rodgers

Author: Brenda Rodgers

  • Weekend Prayers and Links

    The weeks long campaign that I’ve been a part of speaking truth into Fifty Shades of Grey and promoting Pulling Back the Shades is coming to an end today as the movie is released. I know most people, maybe even you, are tired of the bombardment. I even saw this post today on Facebook:

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    I could say a lot about this post and the comments people made comparing the Fifty Shades of Grey posts to the yoga-pants ban post (Did you catch that one?) and the infinite number of anti-immunization posts. But at this point there’s no point.

    We all have to stand for something. 

    My something may not be your something, and praise God for that, because if my something and your something and everyone else something’s were identical there would be a lot of unmet needs in this world.

    Personally, this is my litmus test for what to stand for or stand up for or speak out about:

    Is this an eternal issue? 

    Luke 18-13 (more…)

  • When You Believe a Boyfriend Will Complete You

    Dear Single Lady,

    Do you believe a boyfriend will fill the emptiness in your life and heart? I’ve been there. But let me tell you, a boyfriend does not fill the emptiness. My married friends have told me that neither does a husband. Yet, this lie is something so many single women believe.

    Why do we think we need boyfriends in order to feel complete?

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  • Weekend Prayers and Links :: Pulling Back the Shades

    If you follow me on Facebook, especially, you know that I have been blowing up your feed with posts about the book Pulling Back the Shades by Dannah Gresh and Dr. Juli Slattery. This is in response to the movie, based on the book Fifty Shades of Grey, that is scheduled to come out in about a week.

    Friends, the reason I am so passionate about combatting Fifty Shades of Grey with Pulling Back the Shades is because every woman I know deals with the effects of sexual sin – either her own sexual sin or the sin of people in her life. Many women across this world are real-life sex slaves. Yet we fictionalize sexual sin and pretend it’s not real. Stories of erotica, pornography, sexual bondage, and just plain, old-fashioned sex-out-of-wedlock, like Fifty Shades of Grey, are not make-believe. It’s time the Church talks about that fact.

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  • A Walk to Star Hill :: Cultivating a Relationship with God

    I miss Star Hill.

    Back in college, a dear friend would often ask me to go on evening walks. Usually I would beg off, already settled in for the night … or just too lazy to bother. Every once in a while I would go with her. We lived in a tiny college town in The-Middle-of-Nowhere, KY, so it didn’t take long to walk past campus to the quiet neighborhoods. As dusk set in, we would wander past sleepy homes and head to the top of a small rise where the town suddenly came to an end. Here, on a clear night in a dark, empty field, we would stretch out and explore the night sky. Our meager knowledge of constellations would soon give way to talks about life, family, and friends. And then we would just lie there in the cool grass and breathe in the beauty of the galaxies.

    A Walk to Star Hill :: Cultivating a Relationship with God by Becca Beam (more…)

  • The One Year No Dating Challenge :: Your Calling :: Month 2

    It’s month two of the One Year No Dating Challenge! I hope you’re still following through with your commitment to spend ONE YEAR focusing on your relationship with Jesus so that you can discover who you are in Him and who He created your to be in order to live out those truths in your relationships and daily life. You can find month one’s post here.

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  • Weekend Prayers and Links

    Overall I consider myself a nice person. I say “please” and “thank you” and most of the time even “yes ma’am” and “no sir.” I am from the south after all.

    I always use my blinker, even when turning into my driveway. If you try to do something to help me I make sure you really want to by asking, “Are you sure?” a hundred times. I smile at everyone I see.

    But put me in a public place, such as a grocery store, and all of a sudden my eyes go red and my fangs come out. It’s as if walking through the automatic doors transforms my body into the Wicked Witch of the West. With everything in me I have to hold back screaming, “Get out of my way!”

    In public my flesh is real.

    Psalm 139-23-24

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