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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
May 31, 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
Jan 30, 20231 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
Nov 2, 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
Oct 28, 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
May 9, 20211 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
Mar 29, 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
Feb 11, 20212 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
Jan 19, 20215 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
Oct 8, 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
Sep 17, 20202 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...
Marnie Hammar
Oct 9, 20192 min read


Will You Run the Race Set Before You?
Published by Revelation Wellness. There was a pit of unsettledness in my stomach, a sort of vague uneasiness that bubbled up uninvited,...
Marnie Hammar
May 2, 20191 min read
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