Kristen Evans

Having fun with the Kombucha brews and sourdough bread! I feel so "crunchy" 😆

@cevans5512 Love the stache... Always will 😊

STOP SCROLLING can YOU🫵 spot the difference between these two photos? 99.99% OF PEOPLE CANNOT 😲!

How my husband treats me when I'm feeling feisty.. he actually quoted King Louie the other night, little jingle and all 😆 @cevans5512

Tineline cleanse 😍 #BLESSED 😆🙌

You bless your enemy yet today? In lieu of recent (and on going) conflict, hate, polarization in the world... I'm telling you, genuinely praying for your "enemies" is the key to sanity and ongoing peace. All the while the rest of the world bites and devours each other, wouldn't it just be better to sit under a tree with Jesus and pray and bless the world. I think there is a lot more power and freedom in that 🙏 Prayer is powerful. His Love and kindness is what CHANGES us. "Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good." (Romans 12:9). We must hate evil.. Come against it. But let us never forget and implement lest our hearts get cold: "But I say to you, LOVE your enemies, BLESS those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and PRAY for those who spitefully use you and persecute you" (Matthew 5:44) "First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for ALL people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires ALL people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man[a] Christ JESUS 🔥, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth." (1 Timothy 2:1-7) "not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing." (1 Peter 3:9) ALL beautiful, life giving Truth must be spoken and stood for including: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal." (1 Corinthians 13) We must also grieve for those who don't know the Truth and pray for a change of heart. Jesus, Himself, wept over Jerusalem for missing His message. If our hearts don't break and weep for people who are in stark opposition to the Gospel and pray for their salvation something is off.. our love has grown cold. We need to pray our hearts stay soft to His love yet set like flint to the Truth.

This is a problem: Everyday, I’m bombarded on X about how to make more money. Here’s why it’s scary: This isn’t just marketing, it’s propaganda. They aren’t selling financial freedom, they are selling a narrative around what we should value. This makes it feel like financial prosperity is the path to the good life. We think, “Unless I have it, I won’t ever have the life I want.” This creates a longing in us, so we give ourselves over to produce wealth. Now, money isn’t evil. But the narrative that money is what you need is. It’s idolatry. Jesus warned us that wealth is deceitful. And if you’re deceived, it means you aren’t aware that you are believing a lie. So consider this your wake up call: Money cannot save you. Money cannot make you happy. Money cannot give you the good life. But money does force you to worship it and poisons you with a never ending desire for more. It enslaves you. Our minds should not be full of “how to finally get to 7 figures.” It should be full of “how to get more of Christ.” Don’t be fooled. Only Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Everything else is a false God.

@JCRyle K, M, P, T, J, G, C, C, W, K

Would you like prayer for your unsaved (lost) family and friends? If so, list their names below. You can also just put their initials...

I believe the Bible, love Jesus, have fantastic sex with my husband and believe sex and our bodies were for meant for our spouses enjoyment not to display provocatively for the rest of the world. Women (including myself at one point) love attention from other men and now I find it an empty, dead end of desires... Not sacred, not fulfilling. My marriage has flourished since leaving that behind. God is good and there's a reason why He encourages and discourages behaviors and empty pursuits.

Now you know why sexless marriages exist in the churches 👇 They teach women that their bodies are shameful and should be hidden. They teach women they shouldn’t be good at sex. They teach men that his desires don’t matter in marriage. And it’s not scriptural. One verse, a thousand interpretations, each twisted just enough to fit someone’s agenda. This is Not The way forward.

Praying for this dear woman 🙏 I have experienced similar torment that lasted for a years. I let it make me desperate for Jesus... Praying for her heart to find a flicker of hope, that the enemy's lies would be exposed for what they are and that she would have faith as a child! I remember waking up from a tormenting dream that brought about shame, hopelessness, fear, anxiety and as clear as day I heard the Lord say, "That's not my voice.. that never was." And that was the breakthrough in realizing those thoughts and beliefs were from the pit of Hell and never from my Savior. Praying she recognizes the enemy's lies, takes authority over her thoughts and makes them OBEDIENT to Christ! He is SO good!

Please pray for this family. Message: Apologies for the unsolicited long dm, but I see you post prayer requests from time to time and figured it was worth asking. My father left us for a lifestyle of homosexuality nearly 20 years ago, leaving my mother to raise us (ages 15, 8, 5, and 1, now 33 [me], 28, 24, and 20) on her own, which she did faithfully. We endured trial after trial but she held firm in the faith, taught us how to honor the Lord, and homeschooled all four of us to graduation. She’s incredible. But the enemy never stopped trying to break up our family since my father left. In 2020, my sister fell for the LGBT propaganda and left the family, which broke my Mom’s heart. In late summer last year, my Mom fell into a terrible depression. She started having panic attacks, and couldn’t sleep. She had no peace. I did what I always do and tried to comfort her and encourage her that God was in charge, quoting scripture and praying over her constantly. In this past year things have only gotten worse. She has no peace, ever. She exists in a constant state of fear, and has panic attacks daily. Just getting to bed is a 2-3 hour affair most nights, and never ends peacefully. She is utterly tormented by her own thoughts and believes that God has abandoned her. She has no faith that He will do anything for her, because she’s made too many mistakes and failed too many times. Unfortunately, my brothers have essentially backed away, not knowing what to do they simply do nothing at all. I’m essentially all she has, other than her mother. I continue to try and encourage her; but I’m utterly exhausted. My words, once met with belief, are now met with skepticism at best and outright rejection at worst. I’m sleeping 3-4 hours a night on average, as she doesn’t get calm enough to sleep until 4-5am most nights. During the day I run an IT company, and the stress of that just compounds with everything going on at home. That said, I love her dearly and I won’t give up on her. I know God hasn’t abandoned her, but she’s completely defeated. She feels totally alone and forgotten. I’ve tried to get her to see a counselor but she won’t work with me to pick one. She’s tried antidepressants with no effect. She stopped going to church years ago and won’t go now. She barely eats enough to live & prays for death every day. I’m just utterly lost. I know God is in charge and I know this is not how He would have her to live, but I don’t know what to do. I can’t fix it, and my words of encouragement no longer carry the weight they once did. Every day she says to me through tears and panic “Help me, please!” over and over again. Every time eroding what’s left of my heart as I simply can’t fix anything. Please pray that Jesus will fix everything. I KNOW He cares and that He can do it… but after a year of living in utter misery and abject hell, I don’t know what to do but keep clinging to Him for redemption. Sorry for the huge depressing message. If you could just say a prayer for the restoration of my family, that would be so appreciated. I just don’t know what to do but beg God to fix everything.

You know your husband's training for a marathon when you find this on your dresser as the remains of his bedtime snack the next morning 😆🏃‍♂️@cevans5512

When walking by Victoria's Secret store at the mall yesterday, Charles (my 7 yr old son) noticed the posters of minimally dressed models plastered on the windows and held his hand up to block his eyes and emphatically said "Ewww! That's so creepy!". I chuckled at the innocent and honest assessment of my young son and realized his feelings might change at some point 🙃 It got me thinking about how to walk beside my kid(s) in a world full of things that I wish I could shield them from but, realistically, can't. Sex is everywhere. How does our response to sex and worldly seduction (not the same thing in the right context) affect our families. To be honest, I've KNOWN the gift of sex in the context of marriage, but still felt threatened by the outside forces of the world's obsession and projection of sex that leaks out everywhere (from ads, to content on phones, to fashion stores, to movies, to musicians and entertainers). It's not hard to look around and see our culture has a fascination with it, so much so, people pin their identity on it. Feeling "threatened" by it or even fearful (in desiring purity, or to protect your marriage or kids, or perhaps it's been a deep struggle) can lead to, as my son did, put your hand up in disgust and even trying to convince yourself it's "creepy and disgusting".. we can start to demonize things without even realizing it. Interestingly, when I've tried approaching it from that angle, it's only led me to be spiteful, jealous, fearful and feeling overwhelmed that, maybe, those things aren't getting better in our culture, but even more prevalent. But what IF, the Lord could give you a new set of eyes to see people as people, sex as a beautiful gift in the confines in marriage, the body as a beautiful creation (to appreciate as beautiful but not to worship), to see HIM as the Creator of beauty and give worship and glory to Him. I think if we placed our confidence in HIS absolute amazing beauty and power and grace, we could be honest with ourselves that certain things are beautiful (and He made them as good) but they aren't the Ultimate. To remember that every knee, on heaven and earth, will bow before Him in His glory someday. My spiritual eyes are awakening to the absolute beauty of who HE is and allowing everything else in this life to shrink in it's proper proportion. Suddenly, this "big monster" is a small fly that feels distracting at times but pales in comparison of who He is. Recalibrate on His goodness. Suddenly, seduction and worldly displays of sex aren't powerful and a "big, scary" undefeatable battle.. it's just a sad twisted display of what God had originally intended for good and His glory.. which we can and should redeem in our own marriage. People are people.. bodies are bodies (changing, aging and dying)... Sex isn't a big, scary monster we're trying to protect our marriages and kids from, our brains just need rewired by the goodness of God. Chuck and I talk about this all the time because we've been on both sides of it before experiencing His freedom. Maybe seeing things as they really are (beautiful, but not the ultimate) will allow us to breathe in Who really is the Ultimate and to see the world with a totally new lens. It's freedom. It allows you to pray in confidence, intercede with love and hope and allows you to have compassion on a broken world attempting to use and abuse everything good He created to fill a void only He was meant to fill. Church, let's stop living in fear and fix our eyes on Jesus, the King of Kings who came to free captives and give sight to the blind. He is so good!

@Lady_Broski @abarefootmomma I used steroid creams for years since childhood. I felt I wasn't dealing with the root issues and just masking the symptoms and discovered I had a sensitivity to certain fabrics. Using tallow balm instead of lotion also helped tremendously! I haven't had it on my limbs for 2 yrs

does anyone here have eczema? help pls.

@cevans5512 @abarefootmomma Tallow balm also helped tremendously!

@abarefootmomma my wife did for years and she tried everything and used that creme ever since high school.. for her it ended up being certain clothing fabric.. once she ditched those fabrics it all went away 🙌.. hope you are able to get it figured out 👊

To be honest, my husband is the one who depicts better self control in this area than I do. He is 14 years free of porn and truly says he doesn't "need" sex, but it's an incredible gift. I think the goal (which is biblical) is that neither spouse should deprive the other unless it's mutual. Anyways, just throwing out a personal example that men CAN make that choice - I believe they have the Spirit of God too, just sayin'.

@naomieppsbest @LilaGraceRose @lilaroseshow Men are not the ones abstaining... Men do not choose to abstain. This is a choice made by women - for the Man. I find your wishful thinking amusing. Nothing personal, though.

Men don’t need sex. Our culture is so hypersexualized that the idea of a celibate priest leaves people in disbelief—as if it’s impossible. That’s heartbreaking. Have we really forgotten that self-control and virtue are within reach? Look at Jesus Christ. The most perfect man to ever walk the earth was celibate and sinless before He was crucified for our sins. Shouldn’t He be the supreme model for manhood? Self-mastery. Discipline. Total self-gift—all out of love. Priests choose celibacy so their hearts can belong entirely to God. As St. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 7:32-35: “I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided... I say this for your own benefit... to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.” Abstinence isn’t just for priests—intermittent abstinence can also be a beautiful practice within marriage if a couple has a serious reason to delay bringing a baby into the world. When practicing Natural Family Planning (NFP), spouses can grow in self-mastery, deepen their love, and remain faithful to God’s design for marriage. Christ is the model. Love is the reason. Holiness is the goal. Watch E238 of The Lila Rose Show: youtu.be/hkhX9sP9Rxk

"Any belief system that makes it hard for you to love your neighbor is not from God. Let it go, beloved."

Doing anything to impress anyone is guaranteed to be bondage and let you down because we're volatile human beings with finicky interests and attractions. I don't push my religion on anyone, but the only way I have found genuine joy and peace in life (and seeing others with eyes of compassion, grace and love) is by recognizing the only One who's opinion matters is God's. He sees past every "impressive" physical persona and striving and sees directly at our heart. It allows you to quit judging and feeling negative towards others and gives you hope for people. It's awesome.

Women Dress Post 
and act… for other women, 
performing for their approval, not men’s. The older, plainer, and heavier they get,
the louder the “support” from other women becomes. But don’t pretend it’s about empowerment. 
It’s about protection: 
from judgment, accountability, and especially male standards. The sisterhood is ruthless. 
Women sabotage each other more than men ever could just in more subtle ways. Acceptance from the sisterhood = survival. That’s why plenty of women call fat women “beautiful,” 
even when she’s clearly obese. They won’t say she needs to hit the gym
because breaking ranks isn’t worth the social, financial, or emotional cost. Men, listen up: 
Most men only protect women they still want to sleep with. Once a woman’s no longer sexually valuable, 
she becomes invisible. That’s when the sisterhood picks her up 
not out of love, but out of utility. Women cling harder to the group than to any man, but female support isn’t unconditional It’s only for women who pose no threat. So a woman who is: Young.
Attractive.
and Pro-male. Will get outcasted from the sisterhood If a woman defends men and calls out women’s bad behavior the same women praising her now would drag her mercilessly. So don’t expect women to rise up and speak the truth. The truth is a lonely path 
few take it, 
fewer survive it. Because the sisterhood wasn’t built on truth. 
It was built by the rejected 
all trying to survive a rigged system of fake validation, fear, and silence.