Cultivate Her

*Post by Hilary Barnett* As a former music major, I have vivid memories of my “aural comprehension” class- every week we had an assignment to read notes and beat out the notated rhythms. My friends and I would sit in restaurants until late in the night, practicing our rhythms on the tables. I’ve always appreciated [...]

*Post by Hilary Barnett* I just finished reading a book called “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles” by Steven Pressfield. This book illuminated so much truth about the creative process, and how much resistance we face when trying to initiate anything positive in the world. Pressfield describes [...]

*Post by Sharon Hodde Miller* I know you’re probably wondering what in the world this post is about! I promise I am not about to propose a DaVinci Code-esque conspiracy theory about how Jesus was actually a woman. But before I explain the myth of the female Jesus, let me back up a bit. A [...]

*Post by Hilary Barnett* One of the most important resolutions you make this year may have nothing to do with your gym membership. In 2011, let me encourage you to intentionally cultivate a mentoring relationship with another woman. Yes, you read it correctly: mentoring. It may sound a bit dry and formal, but there is [...]

*Post by Diana Sumpter* As we are all busy with the details of Christmas, it is a great time to start thinking about where we are spending our time, energy and money.  Why not ask yourself this question “If I could design the life I love, would it look like the life I live right [...]

*Post by Hilary Barnett* In July I was hired to a new position, one that I could only describe as a dream job. I would be doing what I loved, serving people, and would also have my first opportunity to lead a team. Finally! What could be better? I was finally getting my chance to [...]

Honor your first commitment – this can be difficult.  Mom explained to me early on that there will always be something that seems bigger and better than my first commitment.  As her daughter, she probably knew this would need to be drilled into my brain.  If you make a commitment, keep it.  If you look [...]

I wish I could somehow, as I sit at a friend’s house flowing with electricity eloquently put my thoughts together… but I can’t. My first thoughts are to type complaints of how tiered and emotionally drained I am. I know that my family and my entire Cross Point Church family are feeling the same. Days of [...]

Last night I met up with five girls at a coffee shop here in Nashville.  I was introduced to three of the five.  We were all there for one reason: to support a friend with an extremely ill father.  We sat and talked for a couple of hours, listening to her explain the latest news [...]

1. To prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till. 2. To use a cultivator on. 3. To promote or improve the growth of by labor and attention. 4. To produce by culture: to cultivate a strain of bacteria. 5. To develop or improve by education or training; train; refine: to cultivate [...]