Brenda Rodgers

Category: For Single Women

  • FREEDOM: For When You Awaken Love Too Early

    “I am guilty. Ashamed of what I’ve done, what I’ve become. These hands are dirty. I dare not lift them up to the Holy one. You plead my cause. You right my wrongs. You break my chains. You overcome. You gave Your life. To give me mine. You say that I am free – how can it be? How can it be?

    I’ve been hiding. Afraid I’ve let you down, inside I doubt that You still love me, but in Your eyes there’s only grace now.”

    The lyrics above are from a beautiful song by artist Lauren Daigle titled ‘How Can It Be’. Have you ever said those words?

    Have you ever felt so guilty that God couldn’t love you?
    Have you ever felt so dirty that you couldn’t worship our Savior?

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  • Are You Fully Surrendered To God?

    The word “surrender” can be a scary one.

    It implies laying down our desires and our dreams, for something that is unknown. Surrender means that we submit everything to God with hands wide open. The problem is that we have a tendency of closing our fingers around those desires and dreams again into tightened fists. We say to ourselves, God is not willing to help or He’s not moving according to my timetable, and we feel the urge to take control.

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  • Can You Accept “Purity” as a Part of Your Name?

    My name is not an exciting conversation starter. It’s not linked to another name. There is no family history revealing quirky or interesting facts about how my parents came to name me. The name “Katie”, however, is a variant of Katherine. I learned very quickly that it means “pure”.

    For a long time I didn’t quite get the meaning of pure. I used to pride myself on being a good person. To me, “good” was close enough to pure. I knew that I sinned, but I never sinned “badly”, in my eyes. I rarely made my parents angry when I was younger. I was quiet, timid, shy and out of everyone’s hair. To me, that was important.

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  • Embracing the Discipline of Godliness in Your Life

    I am very excited to bring you my first post here on TripleBraidedLife!

    Embrace. What comes to mind when you hear that word? When I hear it, I think it sounds elegant. I feel like it is a fancy way to describe a hug. It actually means to “accept willingly or eagerly”. As single Christian women, what are we accepting willingly or eagerly into our lives? Godliness or sinfulness?

    In the face of consequences from my recent deceptive and lying actions, I asked myself, “Am I embracing the discipline of godliness in my life, willingly and eagerly?”

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  • Why Your Singleness Isn’t About You

    Hi, my name is Liv and I’m single.

    For the longest time that word grated on my nerves. It meant that something was inherently wrong with me, but I didn’t know exactly what that was. The years have passed and friends have gotten married with children, yet it feels like I’m still in the holding room waiting for something or someone to happen.

    God had to break me out of the stronghold that my singleness was about me. It isn’t. Singleness and what I do with it is all about God.

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  • 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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