by Shannon Popkin | Dec 10, 2018 | Holidays
I hope you’ll enjoy this post which was previously published at True Woman, a ministry of Revive Our Hearts. A few years ago, I came up with a tricky idea for tagging our gifts. I formulated this plan because I was frustrated by the way—in years past—my kids...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 5, 2018 | Control Girl
Control is such a burden. It weighs us down and tears at our relationships. We become the worst version of ourselves when we try to manage all of life’s contingencies and lunge for one loose thread after another. God never designed for us to live under the...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 26, 2018 | Control Girl
This post originally appeared on ReviveOurHearts.com, where I serve as one of the bloggers. She left the Church and came out as a lesbian, all at age nineteen. I didn’t meet Rachel Gleason until years after this point, when her poetry group performed at my son’s...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 19, 2018 | Hardship, Suffering, Uncategorized
For a third grade assignment, my son defined thankfulness this way: “It’s when you don’t really like something, like your dinner, and your dad says that you should be thankful for it.” I’m sure he was picturing himself taking huge swigs of...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
This post first appeared on the True Woman blog (where I serve on the blogging team). It’s a recap from one of the pre-conference sessions at True Woman 18. For the latest from ROH, go here. I remember my friend telling me that she used the parts of a...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. I have a son named Sin. He is a fully grown man and brings me great sorrow. He is a...
by Shannon Popkin | Oct 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
This post first appeared on the True Woman blog, where I serve as one of the bloggers. “Whoa. A ‘true woman’ has just entered our midst.” I looked curiously at the guy who said this just after I entered our children’s ministry meeting. Then I remembered. The tote bag...
by Shannon Popkin | Oct 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’m writing at the Revive Our Hearts Leader Connection blog today… I awoke in the middle of the night, filled with a vague sense of despondent gloom. Groggily, I tried to make sense of my surroundings. Oh yes. I was at a retreat. I was the speaker. And...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 27, 2018 | Leadership
Introducing a FREE ebook, freshly released from Revive Our Hearts: 10 Truths to Set Leaders Free Truth matters. It matters in our own lives, and it matters in the lives of our leaders. This book focuses on ten common lies that leaders believe, paired with the Truth...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
This past week, I had the joy of speaking at Gitche Gumee’s women’s retreat in Michigan’s upper peninsula. Oh how I loved experiencing God, way up there in the fresh air and wide pebbly beaches. I also loved leading the women at the retreat in an...
