by Shannon Popkin | Mar 2, 2023 | Change, Deception, Gender and Sexuality, Humility, Pain, Perfectionism, Podcast 4, Rescue, Salvation, Sin, Teens
As a thirteen-year-old, Jessica innocently stumbled upon the world of pornography. She was lonely, and the porn chat rooms offered love and acceptance. And yet—similar to the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, pornography was not the harmless fruit Jessica...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 28, 2022 | Salvation
I’m grateful for the opportunity to share a blog post today on “Open the Bible” with Colin Smith: “I accepted Ken as my husband.” For the record, I have never spoken about my husband in these terms. I’ve never said to my children, “Twenty years ago,...
by Shannon Popkin | Oct 26, 2022 | Enemy, Gospel, Podcast 4, Salvation, Sin, Submission
Picture a line drawn in the sand between good and evil. Does it ever feel like the other side—the side where Satan stands—is winning? Well, the verses we’re going to look at tell about a different ending to the story, all because of the Seed of the Woman. As...
by Shannon Popkin | Oct 12, 2022 | Deception, Enemy, Podcast 4, Salvation, Sin
Have you ever had an intruder? Knowing that someone has entered your space immediately makes you feel violated and on guard, and that’s exactly how we’re supposed to feel when an intruding serpent shows up in the Garden of Eden. I feel so honored to have...
by Shannon Popkin | Mar 23, 2022 | Forgiveness, Gospel, Holidays, Hope, Jesus, Podcast 2, Rescue, Salvation, Sin
If you were invited to a special dinner party, where the honored guests gathering around the table are all friends of Jesus who will be participating in a symbolic reenactment of the most important day in the history of the world, would you go? What I’ve just...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 10, 2022 | Beauty, Salvation, Significance, Sin, Wisdom
This is a photo of the puzzle I just threw out. (You can watch on Instagram.) Why did I throw away my unfinished puzzled? Because I used up all the pieces in my box and (as you can see), there were LOTs of pieces missing. I always store our puzzles on foam boards...