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Someone should do something about this

May 20, 2025 By Tamera Alexander 2 Comments

Have you ever read a passage of Scripture or heard a sermon—and it just stays with you? This past Sunday's lesson at Church of the City Franklin, where Joe and I attend, was that kind of lesson for me. One of the phrases Darren repeated in this lesson was, "Someone should do something about this." Meaning when you see a particular situation and you keep having this recurring thought, "Someone … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry Tagged With: God Steps, Tamera Alexander

My last D was in QBA!

March 18, 2025 By Tamera Alexander

The last D I made was in college in QBA—Quantitative Business Analysis, and even then I think my Harding University professor (Dr. Priest) had mercy on me after so many hours of private tutoring. Math and I have never been fast friends. Which makes it so funny that our son Kurt majored in Mathematics (with minors in Chemistry and Christian Ethics) and loves trig and calculus. Shoot me now. He … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Books, Social Media, Technology, Writing Tagged With: Author Media, God Steps, Tamera Alexander, Thomas Umstattd, Websites, writing

Ready for fall, anyone?

August 6, 2024 By Tamera Alexander

I'm so ready for fall, I can taste it. First, another book is due September 2nd and I'm racing to finish. It's been a difficult one to write. Mostly because it's been inside me for a long time and those are always hardest to get onto the page. But also because we've recently moved. Still in Nashville, just a different house. It's been a long and frustrating process—is moving ever fun, though, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Faith, Writing Tagged With: Bible Study Fellowship, God Steps, Kristi McLelland, Luke in the Land, Tamera Alexander

In Memory of Mandisa

May 7, 2024 By Tamera Alexander

This is a post I originally published on August 30, 2011, long before I had the joy of meeting Mandisa in a Bible study we both attended in a friend's home here in Nashville a handful of years ago. As everyone says, she was—and still is—the real deal. I'm heartbroken over her passing, but her openness and transparency encouraged me then, and still does today. I originally entitled this August … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Faith, Family, Friendship Tagged With: A Lasting Impression, God Steps, Mandisa, Music, Tamera Alexander

A story behind a story . . . in his perfect timing

November 21, 2023 By Tamera Alexander

When I was a teenager, after youth group on Sunday nights a bunch of us used to drive to downtown Atlanta and, equipped with flashlights, we’d sneak into an old, abandoned, boarded-up antebellum home. We’d wander around, peering into rooms, creeping up staircases (hoping they held) all while brushing aside cobwebs and breathing in plumes of dust. It felt like walking through time—and I loved … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry Tagged With: A Million Little Choices, God Steps, Tamera Alexander

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