Christy Bass Adams, is the Outreach and Connections Coordinator at Fellowship Baptist Church in Madison, Florida. She is also a writer and had her first devotional book published in summer of 2022 (Big Lessons from Little People) followed by a middle grade novel (Imagination Checkers) in 2023, and the sequel (The Secret Door) in 2024. More recently she has published a Bible study entitled, Called to Christ. Her most important role, however, is with her family as a wife of 21 years and mother to two country boys. She worked in education for over 18 years at both the elementary and collegiate levels. Her favorite pastimes are fishing and sitting around a fire. For more from Christy, visit her blog at christybassadams.com.
My nine-year-old son interrupted a conversation between my husband and me. “What does that mean?” “Don’t worry about it. You won’t understand.” “Yes, I will. Tell me.” My brain assessed the conversation. Prior knowledge, years
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Everything changed when I fell. Pickleball became my exercise of choice in 2021. I played three mornings a week with friends and fell in love with the sport. By 2023, I added one or two
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What does fruit look like in the life of a believer? What is the evidence? This seemed like a simple question. Until I attempted to answer it. At first, I thought about the fruit of
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Have you ever felt like your prayers were bouncing off the ceiling? Do you struggle deciding if it’s your own voice in your head or if it’s God’s? Do you want to learn to hear
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I sat between the tray of chocolate-covered peanuts and the bowl of homemade Chex mix. Family members filled plates sparsely for their little ones, then returned and overloaded their own. The crowd grew and most
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Not a Tree Safe Around Here My husband and I rode down several side streets commenting on how much the landscape has changed since the storms. Lush, wooded lots are gone. Beautiful neighborhoods known for
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According to the law department at Cornell University, a dependent is “an individual who relies on support from another individual and usually cannot exist or sustain themselves independently without the aid or support of someone
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The last nine months have felt like a roller coaster—high and low, joy and fear, excitement and nausea. I’ve seen God’s hand in every twist and turn. But just because I can see his hand
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The Beginning of My Circle of Life I’ll never forget my first Christian writers conference. My mom and I printed directions from Mapquest, reserved our hotel, and began our seven-hour drive to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Neither
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I had the great privilege of attending Centrifuge on the Ridgecrest campus. Our camp pastor, Travis Agnew, brought some amazing messages, but one of his stories followed me home. He shared about traveling overseas and
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