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 | Apr 25, 2019 | God, Uncategorized
Siri is like a giant mother in the sky. She gives information and direction generously to all who ask, without getting exasperated–no matter how dumb the question. Down below, sprinkled across the earth, are millions of lost, frustrated, confused, tardy, unsure...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 5, 2017 | Father, God
Here’s one of my recent posts, featured last June on the “True Woman” blog–a ministry of Revive Our Hearts. It was a rainy Saturday afternoon. I sent my college roommates to the dining hall without me because I wanted the dorm room to myself...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 27, 2016 | Prayer, Uncategorized
One night, my fifth grade son came down to my office, after everyone else was in bed. He said, “I felt Daddy looking for my tooth under my pillow, but I guess he didn’t find it.” He handed me the tooth. Then he kept his hand out. Apparently, he was...
by Shannon Popkin | Oct 9, 2015 | God, Parenting
She snuggles into her mom’s lap and says, “Read my fabrit story, Mommy!” Grasped in her chubby hands is the tale of Hansel and Gretal. You know–the story about a brother and sister, captured by an evil witch in a candy house, who wants to...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 30, 2014 | Faith, Fear, God
When we lived in Lake Orion, our house backed up to a wooded state park. So Ken would get up very early and go running on the trails in the woods. To me, this seemed very scary. From our back deck, those woods seemed so thick and ominous. And on winter mornings, it...