by Shannon Popkin | May 21, 2018 | Humility, Uncategorized
I hope you’ll enjoy my latest post, which first appeared on TrueWoman.com, a ministry of Revive Our Hearts. It was a big moment for me. So big that I still remember it forty years later. Our music teacher, whom I adored, had gathered my kindergarten class to sit...
by Shannon Popkin | Oct 3, 2016 | Humility
I’m so thankful for the opportunity to write regularly for the True Woman blog. This post appeared there first. There was only one time my mother-in-law and I “had words.” During my second year of marriage, in the middle of discussing an unrelated...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 27, 2016 | Humility
I’m so thankful for the opportunity to write regularly for the True Woman blog. This post appeared there first. One night I opened an email from a woman I didn’t know who thanked me for a blog post I had written. She mentioned that a certain ministry—one I...
by Shannon Popkin | Aug 22, 2016 | Humility
This post first appeared on the True Woman Blog, a ministry of Revive Our Hearts. I so appreciate the opportunity I have to write for this ministry. Also, I appreciate a sermon by Bob King, one of our pastors at Ada Bible Church, which inspired much of this post. I am...
by Shannon Popkin | Jul 2, 2016 | Humility, Mistakes, Speaking, Wisdom
This past week, I led a breakout session at the Speak Up Conference, titled “Self-Promotion: Greedy or Godly”. And what a perplexing, complicated topic it is–especially for bloggers, writers, and speakers. Even as I wrote the first sentence of this...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 21, 2015 | Faith, Father, Growth, 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...
