Life hits hard at times, and while chocolate can make many things better, it cannot mend the brokenhearted. Thankfully, she found, Christ can and does and will.
Over the months following her devastating break up and aching back, instead of hanging her head in defeat, Kristen’s head bowed in prayer. It was here, in the midst of heartbreaking loss, she fell even deeper in love with Christ and His Word.
Opting out of a family vacation, Kristen hung back in an empty house and decided to “retreat” with her Savior. Though her memory does not recall just what occupied her time for an entire week spent alone, she vividly remembers reading Acts 3 and writing a little devotional on it. Nudged in prayer to send it out to her friends, Kristen reluctantly – and she stresses reluctantly!- typed out an email and sent it to everyone in her address book.
The response to her paragraph of writing on Acts 3 was so humbling; she found herself facedown in awe before the Lord. Not only did her friends ask her to continue sending out writing but they expressed one constant: They were hungry to know Christ.
Kristen has tried to consistently release a weekly devotional since that day over four years ago. She has also completed writing an in-depth bible study called “The Invitation- A Study On How to R.S.V.P.” The title clearly sums up the mission within the pages, as it is Kristen’s deep desire to see others living the free life promised to them in Christ.
She could ask for nothing more than for readers of the study to respond with an R.S.V.P. of “Yes!” to the invitation of Christ. The “Invitation” takes an in-depth look at the exodus journey of biblical Israel and brings their heaven-taught lessons into modern light.
More recently, Kristen has begun to write study materials for church leaders to use in both corporate and personal study. She is also in the process of authoring her second in-depth study.
Kristen desperately hopes her writing points readers to dig deeper into the Word and get to know Christ more. Using humor, day to day situations and, of course, Scripture, it is her desire to see fellow believers actively participating in the biblical study of God’s Word.
Knowing what hopeless feels like, Kristen echoes Paul’s heart in Titus 1:2, as he wrote, “My aim is to raise hopes by pointing the way to life without end.”
Familiar with the ache of a broken heart, Kristen knows there is nothing more pleasing to God than when tired feet meet the pavement and follow hard after Christ even still…
Today, thankful beyond measure that she chose her Bible over the pint (okay, gallon!) of Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream, Kristen warmly speaks to her Savior, “How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” Indeed, even sweeter than the creamiest of ice cream.
Newly married to a Man,who puts her childhood dreams ofher “knight- in –shining- armor” to shame; Kristen Schiffman, recently transplanted from Long Island, New York, resides in California and spends most of her time writing curriculum for biblical study.
She considers it her life’s greatest privilege to see others getting a taste of what the full life in Christ is all about.
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