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Finding Your Voice: What Does That Even Mean?
“Finding your voice” is simply learning to express yourself with confidence. It is deliberately putting thoughts into words even in...

S Oliver
Sep 12, 20232 min read
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What Happens When Women Unite?
In celebration of Women's History Month and International, I am posting an excerpt from my book, The Pearl of God's Eye. The story of...

S Oliver
Mar 9, 20214 min read
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Decisions. Decisions. How to make 'em.
3 Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die?4 If we...

S Oliver
Jan 26, 20214 min read
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How to Fight Your Battles and Win
Happy New Year! Twenty twenty-one promises to be an exciting year. I am looking forward to every good thing God has for me and for you! I...

S Oliver
Jan 8, 20214 min read
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Greater Works
This one is for you, Vena… I have always been intrigued by social media and what people post. From the sublime to the ridiculous, I find...

S Oliver
Dec 6, 20204 min read
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Pivoting Jesus Style
Pivoting Jesus Style I woke up this morning with a very vivid image on my mind. So vivid, I immediately searched for the scripture...

S Oliver
Nov 16, 20203 min read
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Standing on Shaky Ground
Are you feeling a bit out of control? Like the world is shaking right beneath your feet and you’re not sure you’ve got what it takes to...

S Oliver
Nov 2, 20204 min read
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Still a Silent Cry
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. If it were a disease, it would be consider a pandemic! Let that sink in. Women all over the...

S Oliver
Oct 16, 20201 min read
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The Pain, the Promise, and the Panther
6 And He raised us up together with Him [when we believed], and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, [because we are] in Christ...

S Oliver
Sep 16, 20205 min read
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The Pandemic, the Pain and the Promise
It is no secret that I have found some of this time in the pandemic challenging to say the least. Add to it the racial strife, political...

S Oliver
Aug 25, 20204 min read
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Hey Brother: How to Practice Gender Equity in Church
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus....

S Oliver
Aug 2, 20204 min read
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Why Pray? The 21 Day Prayer Challenge
As a youth minister many years ago, I decided to teach a group of 12 to 14-year-olds about prayer. As is a habit of mine, I began the...

S Oliver
Jul 22, 20204 min read
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The Healing Power of Lament
In the aftermath of the deaths of Ahmad Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, I finally gave myself permission to become conscious of...

S Oliver
Jul 1, 20205 min read
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Who Will Weep for Us?
At the thought of George Floyd, I wept. Then I remembered Trayvon, Eric, Ahmad, Amadou and Tamir in random order. I remembered others who...

S Oliver
Jun 15, 20203 min read
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Unchurched and Unchained
My struggle with church began years ago. Somehow, I was always able to quell the quaking in my soul by staying in my comfort zone. I...

S Oliver
Jun 1, 20204 min read
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Refreshing My Soul in Chaos
I know I skipped another month again. See, what had happened was… the Coronavirus. No seriously! It took a minute to get over this...

S Oliver
May 6, 20203 min read
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Steel Magnolias, Fire and Ice
I missed an opportunity to shout out black folks for being fabulous in February but, it’s okay. After all, we are fabulous and magical...

S Oliver
Mar 14, 20204 min read
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Not For Sale!
Happy New Year and welcome to 2020! I’m sure you’ve got 20/20 vision and have set some awesome goals. Follow your heart, my friend....

S Oliver
Jan 15, 20203 min read
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Finding God in the Ordinary
I often spend the Advent season reflecting on what it might have been like anticipating the birth of Christ, the Messiah, the Savior.

S Oliver
Dec 18, 20194 min read
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The Hunger for Authenticity
In a world of where fake news has become the norm and people show only their best faces on social media, I hunger for authenticity. Even...

S Oliver
Nov 7, 20194 min read
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