by Shannon Popkin | Mar 26, 2022 | Comparison, Easter, Humility, Podcast 2
When my daughter was little she looked up at a lifeguard sitting on a tall chair and said, “That’s the king, isn’t it, Daddy?” She didn’t quite have everything figured out yet, but even at two or three years old, she knew that great...
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 the pastors at Ada Bible Church, which inspired much of this post. As...
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...