Michaela L. Carson

The Problem with Faith

We have a faith problem in the American church. We don’t want to own it, or maybe we don’t realize it, but we do. Here is what I mean: we believe that God can, but we aren’t as quick to believe He will. It doesn’t necessarily start that way, but it is more often than we want to admit where we end up. Read More

Insta-pot Faith

I’m not really an Insta-potter, but my husband is, and my best friend is. Don’t get me wrong, I am fine with eating instant meals like these, but if it’s up to me, I like food that’s been properly prepared, not rushed. I love a slow cooked steak or a twice-baked potato. I will admit that the instant cooking movement has been pretty amazing — easy, fast, cheap. We live in a world of quick and convenient, a world that operates on our timeline, and most of the time it’s pretty great. But when that philosophy carries over into our spiritual lives, not so much.
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Dried Up Fruit

What happens if you’re connected to the Vine, bearing tons of fruit and then life happens and your branch gets separated from the Vine? What happens to all that beautiful, luscious fruit? When I am not connected to the Vine all of the fruit He’s been growing through me dries up. Yep. My grapes turn to raisins. Read More

Betrayed… again

We have all betrayed a friend. Sometimes it’s out of hurt or anger, sometimes it is completely unintentional, and sometimes we think it will bring about a desired outcome; it’s simple selfishness. Jesus was betrayed but His best friends and I believe that while they probably had different reasons, they also had different outcomes. Read More

Broken Families

We live in a world full of broken people so we have to live in the reality of broken families – biological, church, and even friends. People deal with broken relationships in many different ways. So if relationships will always cause pain because we are all broken, what’s the point and how do deal with them? Let’s take a look at why our relationships are broken.