The Urban Christian Woman Blog

Restoring the Urban Woman with God’s truth for everyday life.

The Costumes We Wear
Tesheba Oliver Tesheba Oliver

The Costumes We Wear

Regardless of where you stand on Halloween, we can find some amount of fun in a costume. For a short time, we can hide the real us and present someone or something quite different for a while. The problem would be if we viewed the costumes we were wearing as truth and acted as if our costume is who we are in reality.

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Women of Repair
Tesheba Oliver Tesheba Oliver

Women of Repair

It’s easy for me to read that verse and think about “ruins” in places like England or the Middle East - locations where kingdoms and old structures rose and fell hundreds and even thousands of years ago. But what does it mean to examine the ruins, both physically and metaphorically, right where we live?

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Finding Humility In The Wisdom of Christ
Discipleship, Spiritual Formation Tesheba Oliver Discipleship, Spiritual Formation Tesheba Oliver

Finding Humility In The Wisdom of Christ

I don’t know about you, but I really like being right. As a new believer, I loved the idea that truth is knowable. An all-powerful and all-knowing God made Himself known to ME by coming to earth to die for MY sins and has given ME the ability to know Him and tell other people how great He is??? In the past, you could find me on social media or in relationships telling others about truth and boy, was I proud that I was someone who “knew it”! You guessed it, another opportunity for me to be right.

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