Unmasked Week at Route1520.com

Hiding.

Let’s face it, it is very easy to do.

All the way back to the garden, we’ve been hiding and trying to cover up who we really are. But, because the Gospel is true, we no longer have to hide and isolate. We don’t have to pose and pretend anymore.

This week we are going to be talking a great deal about the various masks that we wear, why we wear them, and what it looks like to begin to lay them aside and walk in the truth of the Gospel.

We have some exciting guests who will be joining us this week as we discuss this important topic. Jenny Rain, Serena Woods, Shelley Hendrix, and Sarah Markley will join the Route1520 Team and will share openly and honestly from their own grace stories. Each of these women have experienced God lovingly removing their masks and other means of coping with life and have emerged living with a beautiful limp.

Our discussion will culminate Sunday night on Route1520 Radio as our team shares from our own stories of brokenness. Join the discussion! We want to hear from you!

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All Because He First Loved me,

Shelley

Got Sad?

Got sad yesterday. That unsettling sad. Still don't know why. Driving to the office minutes ago...thinking how many things have to go right just to hold it together, to be healthy enough to keep giving our lives away. How God must surround us. We're fragile beings. How we need places where we can be known, loved, and still enjoyed amidst our confusion, fear and fragility. I thank Him for you who are that for me. ~John Lynch, via Facebook

I just read this from my dear friend and hero, John Lynch. John is the teaching pastor at Open Door Fellowship in Phoenix, AZ. He is also a co-author of several books and a really funny, wise, kind and gracious person. John is an amazing friend to many, one of the greatest communicators out there, awesome husband to his wonderful wife, Stacey, and is a father like none I've ever witnessed. My favorite thing, though, about John, is that John is absolutely real. John doesn't try to be impressive and he never comes across as superior. John really loves Jesus. He really loves people. And I'm never left wondering if I encountered the real John Lynch...he is absolutely and unequivocally the real deal personified! His being a real person, learning to live out of who God says he is, gives me the permission and grace I often need to remember that I can be real, too, as I am on a journey of learning to live out of who God says I am. 

John's post meant so much to me when I came across it today. The truth is that his post above, simply stated as a Facebook update, could be my own words right now (had I his talent for communicating!).

I wonder many times when I read Twitter 'tweets' and Facebook status updates and the like, "What's really going on?" I wonder sometimes as I put up a tweet or a status update how much I should share... 

It's hard to find the balance when it comes to social networking and blogging, isn't it? It's always easier to say, "I was sad last week, but I overcame it through faith and prayer," than it is to admit, "I'm sad right now," don't you think?

I'm curious, how do you choose how much to share on line and how much to keep "off line?"