Courageous conviction.
Fearless faith.
Ignited Pennings: Words on fire for the Lord.
It’s funny how God can take what we intended for something so small and limited and turn it into something meaningful. Something greater. Something that serves a higher purpose.
That is Ignited Pennings’ story.
Ignited Pennings was founded by a 13 year old dreamer on a plain email list with ten subscribers made up of close friends and family. I was a young teen with no former platforming experience, and a fiction writer just beginning to try my hand at non-fiction.
All I wanted was to build a tiny platform that would help jumpstart my writing career. My ideas were limited to merely sharing writing updates and maybe some art I made for my books.
How could I have possibly dreamed it would grow to serve an actual purpose beyond platforming?
It started with just a simple salvation message at the end of my emails. Then it grew; paragraphs turned to commentary, and then to articles. The articles grew larger until everything else was purged from the list to make room for them, and two years later, Ignited Pennings has it’s own blog and website too.
The messages God puts in my heart are what I write now – I want to do more than chase a dream or build a platform. Though my audience has grown significantly and my voice honed a bit more, neither is my motivation, and I pray it never will be.
My writing is far from perfect, and so am I. But it doesn’t need to be. I don’t need to be because He’s already perfect for me. I hope and pray that the things I write will be a blessing and light to you, but also challenge, convict, and encourage you as a warrior of the King. At the heart of Ignited Pennings is just a girl with a borrowed computer and the same calling every other Christian has: to go into the world and proclaim the gospel. I’m no one special. I am only striving to be the one who answers the Lord in Isaiah 6:8, saying, “Here I am, Lord. Send me.”
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