Faith andSpirituality
A faith worth keeping should change how you live without making you certain about everything.
It is not enough for faith to be something you say you believe. What you believe should eventually shape how you love, choose, forgive, create, lead, treat people, and understand your responsibility to something larger than yourself.But formation is not the same as certainty.
Faith should leave room for questions, mystery, growth, disagreement, and the possibility that what you understand today may deepen or change tomorrow.
It should connect you to the Divine without disconnecting you from other people. It should confront what needs to change in you while also calling you more fully into who you are becoming.
A conversation with Tina Campbell
Faith, Formation & Becoming... in the Spotlight
In this conversation with Grammy Award-winning gospel artist Tina Campbell, we talk candidly about rejection, grace, prayer, calling, healing, and the work of spiritual formation while living a highly visible life.
Tina reflects on discovering that years of rejection had shaped the way she understood her worth, even while believing in a faith that taught her she was already loved and accepted. We also talk about giftedness versus formation, stepping away when your inner life no longer feels aligned with what you publicly represent, and what it means to let faith keep changing you while other people are watching.
Should a good sermon live only once?
TRACE is a sermon-lifecycle framework that helps pastors and spiritual communicators move intentionally from first delivery to lasting ministry value.
TEST
Preach the message and pay attention to what is working, what is unclear, and what the room reveals.
REFINE
Strengthen the language, structure, theology, illustrations, and application as the message develops.
ANCHOR
Name the deeper truth the sermon carries and why it matters to your body of teaching.
CAPTURE
Preserve a mature version of the message so its strongest form is not lost to memory, old files, or endless revision.
EXTEND
Decide what the sermon can become next: a study, publication, formation resource, media series, etc.
A message may be preached in one room, but its usefulness does not have to end when the service does. TRACE helps pastors decide which sermons should be refined, preserved, repeated, extended, or allowed to become something more than a single preaching moment.
Work with Sharona
You can see what could be. Now figure out what it'll take.
Sharona works with leaders, founders, and institutions carrying ideas that matter but need help becoming workable. She helps pressure-test the vision, identify what it requires, and build the strategy, structures, and conditions needed to move it forward without shrinking the idea to fit what already exists.