by Shannon Popkin | Sep 7, 2022 | Enemy, Faith, God, Hardship, Hope, Podcast 4, Suffering
Knowing your origin story matters. Understanding Eden’s grand potential (Genesis 1-s), helps you understand the colossal fall in Genesis 3, and helps shape your understanding of the world and where you’ve come from, and where the story is headed. Think...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 18, 2021 | Beliefs, Church, Faith, Gospel, Podcast, Salvation
How can you stir up curiosity in someone who thinks the story of Jesus is irrelevant to their lives—especially at Christmas time? We’re welcoming Darin and Joy Stevens, who live in the UK, where it’s not that people are against God; they just don’t...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 24, 2021 | Faith, Gospel, Podcast, Salvation, Sin
Have you been born again? Do you know what this metaphor even means—and why Jesus used it to confront a Bible teacher named Nicodemus? And what about the metaphor of wind or the imagery of the snake on the pole? And why didn’t Jesus just use plain English… or...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 29, 2016 | Control Girl, Faith
“Betrothal” in Bible times was different than “engagement” today. It began with our equivalent of signing the marriage contract. So the couple was legally married during their (approximately) year long engagement, and then there was the...
by Shannon Popkin | Feb 26, 2015 | Faith, Uncategorized
I picked up my phone and looked at the picture in the text, first. It was my cousin’s piano, which she wanted to sell. Then I read her brief text. She said, “What do you think on the price? The pictures are attached.” I looked back at the piano,...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 21, 2015 | Christian Growth, Faith, Father, Hardship, Humility
We don’t have a snow-blower. My husband says, “Why would we have a snow-blower, when we have three healthy kids who need to learn to work?” So while other kids are inside sipping hot chocolate to get out of the cold, my husband is sending our kids...