Risk Hoping Again

Finding Hope After Disappointment

Hope is always a risk. Hope risks your faith looking like a fool. Hope risks your vulnerability exposing you. Hope risks your dreams looking silly. It risks your disappointment going viral. But not hoping has risks too. You risk your heart closing up or getting bitter and cynical. You risk making God too small and your problems too big. You risk no longer walking toward the life you hope to live. Are you feeling like you’ve given up hoping in one or many areas of your life? We want to infuse some hope into you, girl! Hope is what leads the way when you have no way. Hope is what keeps your heart tender when it risks getting callused. Hope is what keeps your dreams alive. Hope is what finds you reaching out for the only One who has all that you need. It’s time to show back up to hope, friend and we want to help you do that…

Podcast

Isolation, Inner Assumptions and Telling Ourselves a Different Story with Breeze Potts

Do you ever feel yourself disengaging or pushing people away, but you’re not exactly sure why you’re doing it? Or on the flip side, do you ever experience the rejection of a friend who seems...

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Things That Mess with Marriage: Unspoken Rules, Competition, Non-sexual Mistresses, and More with Tiffany and Rick Bulman

In this episode, they talk about how baggage from their childhood and wounds from their early marriage led to affairs and betrayal.

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Collide Podcast 6 Areas Women Need Help Margaret Shull

Help For 6 Areas Women Need It Most with Therapist Margaret Shull

Our aim is to equip women with the emotional and spiritual tools they need to collide with Jesus. So we chose 6 of the most common topics women seek help and counseling for and asked...

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Letting Grief Be Messy with Heidi Price

Heidi Price is a child of pioneer missionaries, born in the jungles of Papua, Indonesia. Everything about that experience has influenced the trajectory of her life: her desire to make a difference in the world,...

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From Comparison to Contribution with Scott Erickson

This message revolves around how social media has been causing intense depression and comparison in our culture and how to battle the temptation.

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Bible Studies

Women’s Bible Study on Hope | Personal and Powerful | Collide

This Bible study on hope reveals the ways in which God intersects with us as women in personal and powerful ways. In a world where we can stand in a crowd and feel alone, do...

6 Places to Go Looking for God

Do you ever struggle to feel God’s presence or connect with Him? We created this 6 week guide to help you look for, find and experience God so you can have peace and comfort when...

FREE 5 Minute Devotions for Moms on the Go

When you’re a busy mom it can be hard to carve out a moment of quiet. We’ve made it easy with these quick devotions to help you reflect on God’s word and find a bit...

Overcoming the Lies You Believe About Yourself: An Exercise to Replace Lies with Truth

Too often, we become convinced that we don't have what it takes to overcome the hardships, obstacles or challenges that hinder us. This exercise will help you walk boldly and confidently as you identify the...

Women’s Bible Study for Anxiety | The Birds & The Lilies | Collide

This Bible study for anxiety seeks to counter what some are calling “anxiety culture," a phenomenon which impacts women across the world. We as women, are all so bombarded by demands, pressure, stress, and anxious...

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You’d be Amazed at What Walks Through the Doors of the Church

It never ceases to amaze me what walks through the doors of the Church. I get the opportunity to visit all kinds of churches when I speak: Baptist churches, Presbyterian churches, Pentecostal churches, non-denominational churches....

Jesus Looks Like My Friend Jeff

What does Jesus look like? Does He look like a guy on stage looking over the crowd loving all the adoration, wanting even more? Does He look like a robed man with golden brown hair...

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Hope in the Again!

Spring is this season where the earth’s axis is tipped on its side and leans closer to the sun. The power of that move causes new life to spring forth all around us. Words like...

Three Things We CAN Do When We Feel Helpless

I have been going outside as many times a day as I can. I walk. I breathe the air and I look for life. I look for beauty. I look for hope and promise. On...

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The Intentional, Ordinary, Simplicity of Thankfulness

I am often a thankless person. I can spend an entire day in a mindset that hesitates to find gratitude. I think it’s called a bad attitude. I can also get so hyper busy trying...

The Good News

It feels like every other week there is some horrific tragedy, inexplicable horror, or difficult news story that is hard to stomach. Whether its another mass shooting, another repulsive injustice where an innocent black man...

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Beautiful Questions

One of Collide’s core values is to recognize brokenness so it can be made whole. We have a growing community of women walking toward healing, as well as a community of counselors who are partnering...

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Devotion: Do You See Me?

Sometimes it can feel overwhelming trying to choose what to read out of your whole big Bible. Sometimes it’s intimidating knowing how to spend your quiet time with God when there are no prompts or...

Risk Hoping Again

Finding Hope After Disappointment