Marnie Hammar
For the Mom Who is Longing For a Rhythm to Receive the Ministry of Summer
Published at Family Christian. I finish my spicy pickles, the juice now running unobstructed across my empty paper plate. I feel the...
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Marnie Hammar
May 91 min read
Where True Heart Connection With Others Begins (as Told by a Recovering Love-Earner)
Published at Family Christian. It wasn’t wrong. A hard thing happened to someone I cared for, and I jumped at the opportunity to help...
Marnie Hammar
Mar 41 min read
How to See What’s New in Seasons We Think We Know
Published at Family Christian. In my house, Easter does not mean new dresses — it means the replenishment of khakis, as every year finds...
Marnie Hammar
Feb 81 min read
How the Lie of Perfection Stunts Spiritual Growth
Published at Family Christian. I first tasted the lure of perfection in first grade at my tiny Christian school. At the end of the school...
Marnie Hammar
Jan 91 min read
How to Move Forward When You Feel Stuck
Published at Family Christian. I’m blow-drying my hair, venting to Jesus (again) about the hurt that’s been haunting my heart for years...
Marnie Hammar
Dec 5, 20231 min read
4 Simple Ways to Make Room for Jesus this Christmas
Published at Family Christian. I light the green balsam-scented candle on my kitchen island, settle onto the stool at the counter with my...
Marnie Hammar
Nov 24, 20231 min read
Give Thanks in Plenty and in Want
Published at She Reads Truth, Giving Thanks Reading Plan. I admit, I’m a sucker for any reel or caption that starts with “learn the...
Marnie Hammar
Oct 18, 20231 min read
Deborah Judges Israel
Published at She Reads Truth, Judges Reading Plan. In my soccer-loving family, one of our post-game rituals on the ride home is the...
Marnie Hammar
Aug 2, 20231 min read
God Has Not Rejected His People
Published at She Reads Truth, Romans Reading Plan. Back in my big hair days, one of the challenges of going to church camp was that we...
Marnie Hammar
May 30, 20231 min read
Opposition to Amos’s Prophecy
Published at She Reads Truth, Amos Reading Plan. There’s a quiet battle going on in my house. As my middle son inches toward standing at...
Marnie Hammar
Jan 30, 20231 min read
How Seeing Less with Our Eyes Invites Us to See More with Our Souls
Published at (in)courage. It’s morning, so I unfold from my blankets and walk my still-pajama’d self down the stairs for coffee. On the...
Marnie Hammar
Nov 1, 20211 min read
How to Find Rest When Wounds Surface Uninvited
Published at (in)courage. It was the oversized canvas beach bag with the red straps that finally forced me to admit it. My husband went...
Marnie Hammar
Oct 27, 20211 min read
Our Wounds, Our Offering
Published by Rachael Adams in The Love Offering Series. It was on an out-and-about kind of day, filled with errands and meetings and...
Marnie Hammar
May 8, 20211 min read
How to Be Grateful Even for the Broken Things
Published by Twyla Dawn Franz in the Begin Within: A Gratitude Series. It’s been fifteen years since I learned that God doesn’t throw...
Marnie Hammar
Mar 28, 20212 min read
Finding Belonging Even When We're Not Chosen
Published by Sarah K. Butterfield in the Out of Place series. Just weeks before high school started, we left a bustle-y, colorful South...
Marnie Hammar
Feb 11, 20212 min read
Holy Conformity Won't Do
Published in the Anticipation issue of Fathom Mag. It stuck out, an anomaly. In the collection of toothpick-thin pine trees, one tree...
Marnie Hammar
Jan 19, 20215 min read
Five Ways to Combat Christian Complacency
Published by Sarah Koontz for Living By Design. As winter drags its feet and the fluff on my slippers wears thin, I’m often tempted to...
Marnie Hammar
Oct 7, 20202 min read
Hi, I'm the Preacher's Daughter: How I Exploited that Label
Published in the Language issue of Fathom Mag. I was eight or nine, maybe ten. I remember the day, because a playdate outside the...
Marnie Hammar
Sep 17, 20202 min read
The Brave Fight to Hear God Louder
Published by Becky Beresford for the Brave Women Series. When I was in grade school, I counted the days in between visits to the roller...
Marnie Hammar
Oct 9, 20192 min read
When Rejection Crowds Out the Rest of the Story
Published at (in)courage. I was eleven when we moved from a rural town nestled in Amish Country, Pennsylvania with its roadside stands...
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