Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Sherry Boykin | Maximizing Your Faith Through Story You are One Story Away from the Perspective Shift that Will Change Your Life Forever ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.sherryboykin.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://www.sherryboykin.com/blog/) - [What a Black Woman in Brooklyn Has in Common with a Jewish Woman in Antiquity](https://www.sherryboykin.com/what-a-black-woman-in-brooklyn-has-in-common-with-jewish-woman-in-antiquity/) - Black woman and Jewish widow At six-years old, I overheard someone say my father was dead. I did not yet fully understand the finality of dead, but I sort of understood that after that day, we would never see him in the green, converted firehouse where we lived in Brooklyn. He and my Uncle Johnny, the two youngest of a At six-years old, I overheard someone say my father was dead. I did not yet fully understand the finality of dead, but I sort of understood that after that day, we would never see him in the green, converted firehouse where we lived in Brooklyn. He and my Uncle Johnny, the two youngest of a - [You Will Be Healed](https://www.sherryboykin.com/you-will-be-healed/) - Today felt like the mighty rushing water from a johnny pump on the Fourth of July in 1970’s Brooklyn–a forceful rush of overwhelm that in a different situation might be welcomed, but in this situation, certainly not. On those hot dog and icee days in Flatbush, we always got exactly what we expected once the - [A Sweet Love Story - Two thumbs up!](https://www.sherryboykin.com/a-sweet-love-story-two-thumbs-up/) - Movie critic Roger Ebert falls in love with wife, Chaz, because of her flawless emails. - [Hashtag Unbelieving Christians: 7 Questions that put your faith in perspective](https://www.sherryboykin.com/hashtag-unbelieving-christians-seven-questions-that-put-your-faith-in-perspective/) - For "You of little faith" Or perhaps of no faith at all. Are you an unbelieving Christian? Do you struggle with trusting God for anything besides your eternal destiny? Do you stick to the rules and regulations you've always heard without ever checking out what the Bible says about those rules and regulations for - [The Warmth of Other Suns](https://www.sherryboykin.com/the-warmth-of-other-suns/) - I know many of you are familiar with the prolific author, Isabel Wilkerson, who, ten or eleven years ago, had a book published called The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. I’m so excited about that on many levels because the Great Migration, you recall, is a time in American - [Who in the Bible Fought Like a Black Girl From Brooklyn?](https://www.sherryboykin.com/who-in-the-bible-fought-like-a-black-girl-from-brooklyn/) - “So, Nehemiah, cupbearer to the king, fought like a Black girl from Brooklyn?” I said out loud as if someone told me the world was flat after all. I hardly believed that could be true of Nehemiah, but there it was staring at me in Scripture: “ . . . I beat some of the - [What's So Good About Friday? (Prodigal Pilates, Part 2)](https://www.sherryboykin.com/whats-so-good-about-friday-prodigal-pilates-part-2/) - Good Friday. Besides the redemptive act of the just dying for the unjust (that is, Jesus Christ dying for YOU and ME), there is something that distinguishes this Friday from all others, and secures its place among those things called excellent. It is the appeal of a man who will give no place to pity, who will go beyond himself The day our redemption was bought - [The Prodigal God Pilates](https://www.sherryboykin.com/the-prodigal-god-pilates/) - This spring some friends and I are stretching ourselves through the parable of the prodigal son (or more correctly, the parable of the two lost sons) as we simultaneously read Timothy Keller's, The Prodigal God. Want to join us? First, read through the text (Luke 15:1-3; 11-32), then go through The Prodigal God (a short, yet profound read). After that, - [Considering Culture (Prodigal Pilates, Part 3)](https://www.sherryboykin.com/considering-culture-prodigal-pilates-part-3/) - I just realized the elder brother in the parable of the prodigal sonS is an even bigger jerk than I thought a week ago. Notice how the presence of the elder brother is confirmed right at the beginning of the parable (Luke 15:11, 12): "There was a man who had TWO sons . . . So he - [The Face I've Earned](https://www.sherryboykin.com/the-face-ive-earned/) - My husband and I laughed our bottoms off one night as we watched a commercial advertising the services of a local plastic surgeon.The spokeswoman in the commercial gave a lengthy discussion about procedures using collagen, botox, facial implants, etc., all without ever moving her upper lip--not because she didn't want to, but apparently because she couldn't. Is it better to have no signs of a life well-lived if it has to be across your face? - [3 Reasons Your Teens and Young Adult Kids Won't Take Your Advice: How to get them to tune you in](https://www.sherryboykin.com/3-reasons-your-teens-young-adult-kids-wont-take-your-advice-how-to-get-them-to-tune-you-in/) - "But I've always taught my kids the truth. Why won't they listen to me?" - [Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal - Sherry Boykin - Faith and Tales](https://www.sherryboykin.com/northeast-pennsylvania-business-journal-sherry-boykin-faith-and-tales/) - [PNC Bank - Women Who Achieve - Sherry Boykin](https://www.sherryboykin.com/pnc-women-achieve-boykin/) - Armed with fresh perspectives, women can fine-tune their niche, recharge their faith, achieve their goals, and succeed in their businesses. - [Thank God I'm Not 25 Anymore! 5 reasons to celebrate coming of age](https://www.sherryboykin.com/thank-god-im-not-25-anymore-5-reasons-to-celebrate-coming-of-age/) - 5 reasons to celebrate coming of age - [Was It Reasonable? The awkward story of our Savior's birth](https://www.sherryboykin.com/was-it-reasonable-the-awkward-story-of-our-saviors-birth/) - Was it reasonable to appoint a teenage girl, never yet known by any man, to wear such unbefitting evidence of unspeakable sin? To explain her protruding belly and her identity as the Virgin who would give birth to Jesus to familiar people who would still struggle to believe her—including the man to whom she Jesus wasn't born into comfort or convenience. Explore the awkward, unreasonable details of Christ's birth--and what they reveal about God's ways. - [Unshaken: Standing Firm in God's Word](https://www.sherryboykin.com/unshaken-standing-firm-in-gods-word/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHOmBV4js_E IN THIS VIDEO: This is what can happen when you think you’re standing firm in God’s Word, but realize you haven’t guarded against your low-hanging fruit–your weak spot–the easiest way your enemy can manipulate you. This recording was livestreamed and shared by the event host Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas. https://www.tabor.edu - [Woman's Day - Sherry Boykin - "Steeped black tea bags cured my sties!"](https://www.sherryboykin.com/womans-day-sherry-boykin-steeped-black-tea-bags-cured-my-sties/) - Search Search - [Indisputable Identity: A YouVersion Devotion and Reading Plan](https://www.sherryboykin.com/indisputable-identity-a-youversion-devotion-and-reading-plan/) - Sometimes a really bad breakup is a really good thing. Find out how in “Indisputable Identity” on YouVersion. Read it HERE. - [When a Wilde Man Weeps](https://www.sherryboykin.com/when-a-wilde-man-weeps/) - Who is at fault? A perspective-changing question based on the very abridged, true story of author/playwright, Oscar Wilde. - [When It Looks Like God Isn't Answering Your Prayer](https://www.sherryboykin.com/when-it-looks-like-god-isnt-answering-your-prayer/) - When the third guy I was absolutely, positively sure I was going to marry walked down the aisle with someone else, I finally felt fully justified in turning my clenched fists upward to God. Not only was I heartbroken, disappointed and actively chiseling the account into my personal journal, but I was downright dumbfounded. Why, - [A Call to Biblical Manhood: Whose job is it to keep his pants up?](https://www.sherryboykin.com/a-call-to-biblical-manhood-whose-job-is-it-to-keep-his-pants-up/) - Are women responsible for the sexual purity of men? - [Changing Your Perspective with Sherry Boykin](https://www.sherryboykin.com/changing-your-perspective-with-sherry-boykin/) - What do you fully believe as soon as you hear it without ever needing any proof or any validation from anyone else? Sonya Hines, host of Navigating Christian Womanhood interviewed me on that very topic and we thought you’d like to hear it. Watch the video and listen here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3044907832398289 - [Life as a Missionary with Sherry Boykin](https://www.sherryboykin.com/life-as-a-missionary-with-sherry-boykin/) - Has anyone ever caused you to wonder about the depth of your faith? I’m so thankful for this interview with Sonia Hines, host of Mars Hill Network’s, Navigating Christian Womanhood. Watch and listen to this conversation carefully as Sonia helps me relate a story from the Peruvian Amazon jungle that reveals a major turning point - [Change Your Perspective, Change Your Life](https://www.sherryboykin.com/change-your-perspective-change-your-life/) - Check out the video below to see how changing your frame of reference or your mindset will ignite your life and set you (and others) on fire. https://youtu.be/0qeDnz0oxJM - [How to Get Your Kids to Remember What God Has Done](https://www.sherryboykin.com/how-to-get-your-kids-to-remember-what-god-has-done/) - Here’s an easy way you and your kids can remember what God has done–on purpose! Build an altar! (I did this with our daughter and now you can, too!) To celebrate starting high school and to give thanks for the amazing things God did all through elementary and middle school in moving mountains, answering prayers, and - [How Epilogues Keep You in the Game When You Feel Like Giving Up](https://www.sherryboykin.com/how-epilogues-keep-you-in-the-game-when-you-feel-like-giving-up/) - When I was seven years old, I heard the word epilogue for the very first time. I remember it so clearly because we were all at my great-grandparents’ house where we were most Sunday evenings, and I was watching a show called FBI. In this show they dramatized the unfolding of a story from an - [But I Thought I'd Be Married By Now](https://www.sherryboykin.com/but-i-thought-id-be-married-by-now/) - New Missionary-on plane to Peru-still single . . . I couldn’t help bursting into tears. I was genuinely ready, excited and intrigued about what lay ahead, but I still struggled with why the God who once made the sun stand still wouldn’t see fit to send me the man of my dreams to serve with - [Thoughts on Diversity in the Body of Christ](https://www.sherryboykin.com/thoughts-on-diversity-in-the-body-of-christ/) - Part of my husband’s story involves his exposure to diversity in general and then to diversity in the Body of Christ: - [What Baby Wesley Didn't Know](https://www.sherryboykin.com/what-baby-wesley-didnt-know/) - Neither newborn baby Wesley nor his parents had any idea of the profundity of their unannounced arrival at our front door at precisely 5:00 pm last Saturday. The loosely-wrapped bundle of sweetness rested so perfectly in my arms that I knew instantly he was the same exact weight as my own newborn several years earlier. - [How to Fuel the Budding Writer or Illustrator in Your Child](https://www.sherryboykin.com/saltykids-books-presents-the-barebacks-of-wishville/) - Write a simple story for your child and have him or her illustrate it . . . Or have your child make up a story that you illustrate. Neither of you will ever forget the experience! Decide which illustrations go with what part of your text and make note of it on the back of the - [What Finding Nemo, The Lion King, and Your Life Have in Common](https://www.sherryboykin.com/what-finding-nemo-the-lion-king-and-your-life-have-in-common/) - They are all wonderful illustrations of . . . - [The Taboo Test: Engage your audience with what you do NOT say](https://www.sherryboykin.com/the-taboo-test-engage-your-audience-with-what-you-do-not-say/) - The geniuses at Hasbro had the right idea when they came up with a party game that had players shouting, laughing, interrupting each other, thinking with their arms and fists, and jumping to their feet. They published the game, Taboo, the most engaging game I've ever played and one I'd highly recommend as a warm-up exercise for any writer or speaker - [Why You MUST Tell Your Story](https://www.sherryboykin.com/why-you-must-tell-your-story/) - How a Lion and a Hunter Should Compel You to Tell Your Story - [When You Just Want to Have a Baby](https://www.sherryboykin.com/when-you-just-want-to-have-a-baby/) - Sometimes, you just want to have a baby. Period. I remember well the years I spent begging God for the gift of being a mom. But can I let you in on a little secret? When I was on the mend from what we thought was M.S., doctors said I would never be able to - [God Can Use Anything to Put You On Someone Else's Heart](https://www.sherryboykin.com/god-can-use-anything-to-put-you-on-someone-elses-heart/) - It might just be your name . . . When I arrived on campus for my first semester of Bible college, a wild car accident had left me with a brace on my neck, a cast on my face, a triple-totaled car, and two empty pockets. I had to work a while before I got - [How God Prepared Me to Eat Whatever On the Mission Field](https://www.sherryboykin.com/how-god-prepared-me-to-eat-whatever-on-the-mission-field/) - One year in college I couldn’t afford to travel home for Thanksgiving, so a lady from church invited me to her family’s Thanksgiving in nearby Kentucky. When we arrived, my friend introduced me to everyone and I instantly assumed the role of sistah-girlfriend, rolled up my sleeves, and got busy doing whatever I could to - [How I Learned the Necessity of Self-Care](https://www.sherryboykin.com/how-i-learned-the-necessity-of-self-care/) - I sped down 38th Street on my way to meet one of three or four girls I mentored. My college student staple–a pizza pretzel in a white paper bag, sat on the floor of my still frozen, five-speed Renault. A half-sharpened, Maybelline eyeliner pencil rolled back and forth in the dip of my denim skirt - [Dear God, Please Forgive Me](https://www.sherryboykin.com/dear-god-please-forgive-me/) - NO WAY was I going to be a foreign missionary as a single woman!!! I didn’t want to end up a strange, cat-hoarding old lady with a bun on top of my head, so I just took matters into my own hands… I knew the Lord wanted me to apply for vocational/long-term service because I had - [Sometimes You Just Mess Up](https://www.sherryboykin.com/sometimes-you-just-mess-up/) - I was so proud of myself that I straightened my posture until I was a full six inches taller than normal. I was on my first Amazon River trip to a village named Nueva York–how appropriate for this brand new missionary from Brooklyn who would have shared the gospel with a canoe paddle if there - [Honoring Dr. King By Honoring His Mother](https://www.sherryboykin.com/honoring-dr-king-by-honoring-his-mother/) - [The Day I Learned to Fish, For Real](https://www.sherryboykin.com/day-i-learned-to-fish-for-real/) - Several of us from the Peruvian Amazon village of Grau took a trip one day in a long, tall, peke-peke canoe to visit a friend about an hour away. About halfway there, one man suggested we fish so that we would already have food to cook once we arrived. Assuming by “fish” he meant climbing - [Some People Turn Out to Be Way Different Than You Think](https://www.sherryboykin.com/some-people-turn-out-to-be-way-different-than-you-think/) - My family were a little worried when they first met B. He had just been at a carwash because he had hit a deer…an ALREADY DEAD deer on his way to their house. And he had hit the deer because he was crying. And he was crying because he had just heard a sad story - [How God Heals the Pain of Miscarriage](https://www.sherryboykin.com/how-god-heals-the-pain-of-miscarriage/) - March 17, 2007. I’ll never forget it. Kaki was a year and a half old and the pregnancy test was positive. We rejoiced like ten-year-olds at the circus! Later that day I felt the “gush.” And then there was more. And it was all over. I cried like a baby and every year after that, I - [Sometimes You Just Mess Up](https://www.sherryboykin.com/sometimes-you-just-mess-up-2/) - I was so proud of myself that I straightened my posture until I was a full six inches taller than normal. I was on my first Amazon River trip to a village named Nueva York–how appropriate for this brand new missionary from Brooklyn who would have shared the gospel with a canoe paddle if - [Learning to Live in Your Epilogue](https://www.sherryboykin.com/learning-to-live-in-your-epilogue/) - When God moves, He moves. And I’m so very grateful for that–a little stuck, perhaps, but grateful just the same. Every woman in Scripture I’ve ever spoken about eventually comes to a point where her faith requires her to do what she would never normally do. Each time, the woman does the impossible thing because - [At What Point Does Your Gratefulness Start to Look Unseemly?](https://www.sherryboykin.com/at-what-point-does-your-gratefulness-start-to-look-unseemly/) - I stood still and stared at this sculpted masterpiece in New York City’s Battery Park this week. Something about it made me want to cry and something about it made me want to shout. And after about two minutes, I knew exactly why. Its creator, Luis Sanguino, used various depictions of reckless abandon to express - [Burning the Pilato: What a Peruvian tradition can show you about your toughest obstacles](https://www.sherryboykin.com/burning-the-pilato-what-a-peruvian-tradition-can-show-you-about-your-toughest-obstacles/) - An annual tradition in the Peruvian Amazon is the burning of "pilatos"-- homemade, life-size dolls that resemble the makers of the pilatos, or that resemble public figures. The pilatos have signs around their necks that indicate what the person represented needs to change about his or her life. It might say, for instance, "Me queman por ser ladrón" - [Burning the Pilato: What a Peruvian tradition teaches about facing your obstacles, part 2](https://www.sherryboykin.com/burning-the-pilato-what-a-peruvian-tradition-teaches-about-facing-your-obstacles-part-2/) - A Peruvian tradition makes the concept of putting off and putting on much easier - [A Not So Silent Scream: What I wish Jephthah's daughter had said](https://www.sherryboykin.com/a-not-so-silent-scream-what-i-wish-jephthahs-daughter-had-said/) - Does the compliance of Jephthah's daughter make you crazy? - [What Grace Looks Like (Prodigal Pilates, Part 4)](https://www.sherryboykin.com/what-grace-looks-like-prodigal-pilates-part-4/) - It looks like the bishop scene in the movie version of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables (Columbia/TriStar Pictures, 1998). The bishop in that scene demonstrates what Christ, "the true elder brother" did for you and me. (The Prodigal God, chapter 5). Just google "Grace-Les Miserables" and check it out for yourself. Then get the movie to see - [Community (Prodigal Pilates, Part 5)](https://www.sherryboykin.com/community-prodigal-pilates-part-5/) - My friends and I have finished reading and discussing The Prodigal God, and it has taken a little while to digest it all...Here's what I see: Community. That's what it all comes down to. Though the born-again experience is an individual one, the living out of this life in Christ was designed by God to - [When It's Not Your Fault but You Pay the Price: But-Kickers seminar, week 1](https://www.sherryboykin.com/when-its-not-your-fault-but-you-pay-the-price-but-kickers-seminar-week-1/) - What you can learn from the story of Jephthah's daughter about what is Not your fault. - [When It's Not Your Fault but You Pay the Price: But-Kickers seminar week 2](https://www.sherryboykin.com/when-its-not-your-fault-but-you-pay-the-price-but-kickers-seminar-week-2/) - Takeaways from the story of Jephthah and Jephthah's daughter - [How to Make Sense Out of Your Hard Times or Your Difficult Past: But-Kickers seminar, week 3](https://www.sherryboykin.com/how-to-make-sense-out-of-your-hard-times-or-your-difficult-past-but-kickers-seminar-week-3/) - What light the story of Samson's wife sheds on your hard times - [How to Make Sense of Your Hard Times or Your Difficult Past, BUT-Kickers seminar, week 4](https://www.sherryboykin.com/how-to-make-sense-of-your-hard-times-or-your-difficult-past-but-kickers-seminar-week-4/) - How has your story helped someone else? - [Relationships in The Wild: BUT-Kickers seminar, week 5](https://www.sherryboykin.com/relationships-in-the-wild-but-kickers-seminar-week-5/) - What can happen when we all do what we think is right - [Relationships in The Wild: BUT-Kickers seminar, week 6](https://www.sherryboykin.com/relationships-in-the-wild-but-kickers-seminar-week-6/) - On Savages and Kinsmen - [Why Would God Say Something Like THAT?](https://www.sherryboykin.com/why-would-god-say-something-like-that/) - Why we sometimes seem nicer than God - [The Sneetches on the Beaches and the Snobs in the Pews](https://www.sherryboykin.com/the-sneetches-on-the-beaches-and-the-snobs-in-the-pews/) - Is it me, or are these two groups one in the same? Here's a quote: "But, because they had stars, all the Star-Belly SneetchesWould brag, "We're the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches." With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they'd snort "We'll have nothing to do with the Plain-Belly sort!" - [Backs in Search of Bones](https://www.sherryboykin.com/swapportunity/) - This past week at Teen Leadership Conference, high schoolers were asked to write about significant events . . . in their lives in a way that would be a blessing to someone else. What they came up with was mostly a cry to be parented by someone with a backbone or a hair on their chest. Put THAT in - [I Don't Know What "Made Love" Means](https://www.sherryboykin.com/i-dont-know-what-made-love-means/) - Yep--that's what the image says: "I don't know what 'made love' means." Let me explain. These last couple of months the developing of But-Kickers has been a big deal in our home. I've been on the lookout for "big but faith," seeking to annihilate it wherever it lurks. And I've been the super-vigilant Wonder Mom who makes sure her own child - [Does Anyone Hear You?](https://www.sherryboykin.com/does-anyone-hear-you/) - Could my greatest fear be your greatest fear, too? - [A Lesson from My Seven-Year-Old: The Family Recipe?](https://www.sherryboykin.com/a-lesson-from-my-seven-year-old-the-family-ecipe/) - My seven-year-0ld daughter and I watched our favorite cooking show last week in preparation for the Fourth of July. The show featured a chef who had built a catering business and a restaurant inspired by his grandfather's recipe of a toe-curling barbecue sauce that sounded like you couldn't even taste it properly without taking off your shoes. Kaki and I wanted that recipe. We anticipated something that would compel us to - [For All You "Les Mis" Groupies](https://www.sherryboykin.com/for-all-you-les-mis-groupies/) - What Victor Hugo, Herbert Kretzmer, and You Could Have in Common - [Redeeming the Sound of My Faith: A song for those who think they don't belong](https://www.sherryboykin.com/redeeming-the-sound-of-my-faith-a-song-for-those-who-think-they-dont-belong/) - A song of redemption and praise for those who are far from home - [Love Song: Imagine The Lover of Your Soul singing THIS to you](https://www.sherryboykin.com/love-song-imagine-the-lover-of-your-soul-singing-this-to-you/) - Discouraged? Feeling like no one gets your pain? Need a way to overcome your disappointment? Why not write a song about The Lover of Your Soul, and what He might sing to you? I started by reading from Psalms, remembering how He makes my feet move, and just went from there. So, here's mine: DANCING - [How to Keep Your Faith From Making Your "But" Look Big: 3 Keys to overcoming mediocrity](https://www.sherryboykin.com/how-to-keep-your-faith-from-making-your-but-look-big-3-keys-to-overcoming-mediocrity/) - 3 Keys to overcoming mediocrity - [5 Godly Things God Doesn't Want You to Do](https://www.sherryboykin.com/5-godly-things-god-doesnt-want-you-to-do/) - What you don't want to be found guilty of - [10 Confessions from 2013: Why not get some things off your chest?](https://www.sherryboykin.com/10-confessions-from-2013-why-not-get-some-things-off-your-chest/) - In the spirit of coming clean and starting off the new year RIGHT, here goes! - [3 Ways to Pray for the Children of Phillip Seymour Hoffman](https://www.sherryboykin.com/3-ways-to-pray-for-the-children-of-phillip-seymour-hoffman/) - Don't let these 4 things be the only recollection these children have of their father. - [Bread and Butter: The new premarital sex](https://www.sherryboykin.com/bread-and-butter-the-new-premarital-sex/) - A cry out to organic and gluten-free church ladies - [10 Things Church Ladies Do Better Than Everyone Else](https://www.sherryboykin.com/10-things-church-ladies-do-better-than-everyone-else/) - What a heart full of love looks like when taken to the extreme! - [Is God a Two-Timer?](https://www.sherryboykin.com/is-god-a-two-timer/) - If God is my husband, can he be yours, too? - [What You Should Know About The God of Resurrection](https://www.sherryboykin.com/what-you-should-know-about-the-god-of-resurrection/) - What The Resurrection Could Mean for You - [Huh?](https://www.sherryboykin.com/huh/) - Why would God say something like that? - [When You Don't Get a Do-Over](https://www.sherryboykin.com/when-you-dont-get-a-do-over/) - What happens when what you need is more than a pinch-hitter - [Jumping Off That High Horse: A necessary exercise for combating heart trouble](https://www.sherryboykin.com/jumping-off-that-high-horse-a-necessary-exercise-for-combating-heart-trouble/) - How different are you from a non-Christian? - [Profile Me, Please! Why you should be glad to be labeled](https://www.sherryboykin.com/profile-me-please-why-you-should-be-glad-to-be-labeled/) - How profiling can bring attention to God - [Not Your Mama's Meatloaf! How puff pastry and caviar can get your praise on](https://www.sherryboykin.com/not-your-mamas-meatloaf-how-puff-pastry-and-caviar-can-get-your-praise-on/) - This past week our family hosted three little boys from Ecuador who were invited to the United States to attend a soccer camp, and to play in the Hershey Cup soccer tournament. My love for South American culture was rekindled as we talked to late hours into the night, and served up as much rice - [If I Were Satan: How I would trip up Christians at their own game](https://www.sherryboykin.com/if-i-were-satan-how-i-would-trip-up-christians-at-their-own-game/) - How Christians let stupid distractions take over everyday life - [The Real Miracle Worker](https://www.sherryboykin.com/the-real-miracle-worker/) - Does God perform miracles today? - [Down Broadway: Without the neon lights, stardom and fortune](https://www.sherryboykin.com/down-broadway-without-the-neon-lights-stardom-and-fortune/) - How God uses what others might call useless - [Will You Dance?](https://www.sherryboykin.com/will-you-dance/) - Dancing the Dance Of the Reconciled - [How to Get Over That One Big Thing](https://www.sherryboykin.com/get-one-big-thing/) - Ten years ago this month I stood on the kitchen chairs, sang, and did "The Chicken Dance" after seeing double lines darken on my Dollar Tree-brand pregnancy test. Two years earlier I had experienced the same heart-stopping glee when I found I was expecting Kaki, then sixteen months old. She joined the celebration as my husband - [Does Speaking the Truth in Love Have to Sound Mousy?](https://www.sherryboykin.com/818611/) - Speaking the truth in love is not what you think it is. - [How to Choose Words Wisely: Last Speech of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://www.sherryboykin.com/how-to-choose-words-wisely-last-speech-of-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/) - Last speech of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - [The Biggest Gift is Not Under the Tree](https://www.sherryboykin.com/the-biggest-gift-is-not-under-the-tree/) - An old man is shocked when an angel tells him he and his post-menopausal wife will soon have a baby. A young girl is puzzled when she learns that in her virginity she will soon conceive and bear a son. A young man's fears are relieved when he finds his fiancée is not pregnant by another man. 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