Kindling Blog | Igniting Fires in Hearts and Minds

How We Got Here: Live Alive Guest Post by Jordan Stroman

This journey taught us that incredible things have room to take place when you push through fear and step into the risk of discomfort.

Becoming Kindling, Guest postsJudy DouglassSeptember 1, 2014alive, courage, disability, fear, friends, life, opportunity, vision, wheelchairComment

Kingdom Women: Queen Esther by Gina Butz

Esther shows me kingdom women are ready, available, expectant for whatever God-ordains for his purposes.

Words of My Life 6: Unworthy

But that’s the wonder of it. God doesn’t wait until we are qualified, or adequate, or worthy.

Personal ReflectionsJudy DouglassAugust 25, 2014adequate, God, Holy Spirit, inadequate, Kingdom, servant, unworthy, worthyComment

Words of My Life 5: Inadequate

God was committed to helping me understand that in myself I was inadequate.

Kingdom Women: My Inspiring Mom by Meadow Rue Merrill

She is often camping on floors in rural villages of a remote and rugged land.

Guest posts, Kingdom WomenJudy DouglassAugust 18, 2014Bible, heart language, inspiration, servant of God, translationComment

If It Would Save My Child, Would I Deny My Faith?

If I were given a choice to recant, or be killed? Or watch my child be murdered? What would I choose?

Iraq...It's Personal--Guest Post by Kourtney Street

Here are some tangible and practical ways to make a difference...

Guest postsJudy DouglassAugust 12, 2014Christian, genocide, Iraq, Jesus, Middle East, Nazarene, war Comments

Praying in Desperate Times

These are desperate times for our world--we read it, we see it, we are touched by it.

On My KneesJudy DouglassAugust 11, 2014desperate times, genocide, oppression, persecution, prayer, torture, war Comment

Learned from Children: It Doesn't Have to Be a Competition

She played for two primary reasons: to please her parents and to be with her friend.

Learned from ChildrenJudy DouglassAugust 7, 2014children, competition, family, game, grandparenting, parenting, people, relational, soccer, winningComment

You Saw Me

You saw me at each of these significant points in my life—as well as in every detail over the years

Personal ReflectionsJudy DouglassAugust 4, 2014being known, being seen, God, life, not alone, sees Comments

A Lifetime Impact: A Lesson in Integrity by Kim O'Brien

That day with nickel in hand Steve was making sure he paid for what he used.

Guest posts, Jesus on LeadingJudy DouglassAugust 1, 2014honesty, impact, influence, integrity, leadershipComment

The Horror and the Beauty

I ask God often about the pervasive evil, but I also marvel at the goodness I see.

Personal ReflectionsJudy DouglassJuly 29, 2014beauty, conflict, horror, missiles, refugees, suicide, terror, war, warfare Comments

Words of My Life 4: Surrender

I have always wanted my own way. God has never quit working to show me His way is better.

Living Out 'Love as Jesus Loved'

When we love someone, we must enter the fray with them and for them.

By His Own Hand: Processing the Suicide of a Friend

Why didn’t his roommate come knock on the door to talk? Why suicide? How can he be gone?

Personal ReflectionsJudy DouglassJuly 18, 2014depression, despair, pain, stress, suicide Comments