Joy Is Coming
Seasons of prolonged suffering have a way of beating your spirit down into the dust. Relational suffering. Physical suffering. Emotional suffering. Financial suffering.
Contributors
Jessica Thompson
Jessica Thompson is the author of several books and is a frequent conference speaker. Her heart is to see women, families, and children freed from the bondage of moralism. She is a contributor at Christ Hold Fast and a part of the podcast, Front Porch with the Fitzes. Jess has a Bachelor's Degree in Theology and with her mother, Elyse Fitzpatrick, she co-authored the books, "Give Them Grace," "Answering Your Kids' Toughest Questions," and "Mom, Dad… What’s Sex?"
Christ Hold Fast
Grace In The Wilderness
God’s children spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness. Imagine the hopelessness. Imagine the frustration.
The Advocate
If you are going to memorize a passage of Scripture, can I suggest these two verses?
Oh Come Let Us Adore Him
Oh Come, see Him loving you before He was ever even born.
Christ Is Enough
There are mornings I wake up beleaguered by my past sins. It is almost as though my conscience waits until I am too tired to fight it, and then it wages its war against me.
Relationship in Relationship to the Cross
Here We Still Stand is an annual three-day event, designed to center your faith in Christ for you, based in the Scriptural truths rediscovered in the Reformation. It's an invitation to celebrate the gospel truths reclaimed in the Reformation and a call to incite a modern Reformation under the banner of the finished work of Christ. It is a three…
The God of Rejects
We should take great care in observing how the psalmist relates to God. Our eyes and hearts should be open to seeing what the psalmist appeals to and how he addresses God.
God at the Feet of Sinners
The disciples and Christ have just finished their last meal together. The disciples, of course, didn't know this, but Jesus did.
The Gospel for the Relational Failure
Today I want to give you some good news. It is good news for the relationship failure; for the one who is self-focused;
Immanuel: God With Us
Is there no sweeter sound than Immanuel? Christ’s name, God with us. Those three words heal an ocean of hurts, give courage to the weakest heart, and lifts the head of the weariest pilgrim.
Forget Not All His Benefits
I have the easiest time remembering all the good things I have done. How I was kind in the face of anger.
Fitzes Sepecial
In one of our most fun shows yet the fellows talk about grace and parenting. For our 25th episode, we are joined by Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson to get a unique perspective on how God works through the vocation…
The Vocation of Wife and Mother
Jessica Thompson talks on The Vocation of Wife & Mother at City Event: New York in 2016.
The Mother's Freedom To Love
You are free to love your children without any expectations because you have been loved immeasurably.
Criminal
One of my podcast addictions is Criminal. Their tagline is “Criminal is a podcast about crime. Stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.”
NETFLIX and the Waiting Game
To say that I have been in a funk would be a huge understatement, it would probably also give you the impression that maybe since I have known I haven’t been conquering and moving forward in my sanctification I have felt sad about it.
When Parenting by Grace Doesn't Lead to Change
A twelve-year-old girl stomped out of the room and slammed her bedroom door. Her two parents sat at the table completely befuddled. They had been trying to lead her to grace, to forgiveness, to a remembering that she was loved.
Inexhaustible Grace for Exhausted Women
Moms, your worth is not determined by what present you get on Mother’s Day. Everything that is true about you was said on the cross thousands of years ago.
Feeling Restless and Finding My Resting Place
I woke up this morning feeling restless. It could be the 7,000 holiday calories I have eaten every day for the past two weeks or it could be that a new year has started and so follows the resolutions.
I'll Get the Tip
It was happening again. I sat across from my dear friend at one of our favorite restaurants. We were finishing our glass of wine and eating the end of the sushi when the waitress approached.
Proclaim the Good News (to Children)
Why is it that we are so afraid to give the message of grace to our little ones? We bombard their ears with law on a constant basis.
Friends
Have you ever experienced the awkwardness of meeting someone you really enjoy and thinking that it was the start of beautiful friendship, only to find out that they didn’t feel the same way?
Weakness is the Way
This past weekend I was celebrating my dear friend’s wedding the way I always celebrate: by working it out on the dance floor. I love to dance, though I am fairly certain now that dancing does not love me back.
Whatever is True
This verse is often applied like a Band-Aid over a gushing wound. Someone is depressed? Tell them to think about whatever is honorable. Someone is angry? Tell them that they should think about what they justly deserve.
Do You Trust My Love?
Recently I took eleven kids to the movie theater, only three of them were my own. Crazy, I know. When we found our seats, I told the kids that I was going to get popcorn. One child asked me in a panicked voice, “What about me? Will I get popcorn?”