“Content to fill a little space”

One Sunday evening as I sat in the pew of a cozy chapel full of worshiping men and women, I found that my own mind was far away. Anxiety, frustration, and discontentment crowded my mind. I flipped absentmindedly to the hymn whose first few notes were being played on the piano, and there I found [...]

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God’s Plan- Even in “Little” Things

I love hearing stories of God’s faithfulness and seeing His fingerprints all over my life. It’s so easy for me to be so caught up in each day that I forget that all along He’s had a plan. I thought I might share with you a recent instance in which God has shown me [...]

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Rethinking Intake

Over the weekend during my re-reading of Joshua Harris’ Stop Dating the Church, I found this quote by John Piper:
“It astonishes me how many Christians watch the same banal, empty, silly, trivial, titillating, suggestive, immodest TV shows that most unbelievers watch- and then wonder why their spiritual lives are weak and their worship experience is [...]

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Saying Goodbye

Goodbyes are very common around this time of year, as caps and gowns signal the end of one educational stage. As I will be graduating soon, this is a topic that is very familiar to me and also something that I’ve been struggling with. There are many changes that take place, forcing us [...]

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Senior Slide

 
 
 
Recently, I read some humorous statements about being a second semester senior.
You know you’re a second semester senior when…
..you actually find yourself doing a math problem to figure out how low of a grade you can get on your finals and still pass a class.
…you can tell someone the recap of every tv show [...]

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Twisted Messages and Forbidden Fruit

Before reading this, you should read this post from Beauty from the Heart. Very thought-provoking!

I was visiting Beauty from the Heart recently (one of my favorite sites, if you haven’t already figured that out!) and read their post entitled, “Overbearing Daddies and Magazines That Care.” It talks about how a certain teenage magazine thinks that [...]

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Cleaning the Heart (Part I)

It was one of the scariest experiences of my life: a missions trip to Mississippi over the summer. We went to offer Hurricane Katrina relief. I most definitely am not what one might call “the construction-worker type.” So this was a leap for me. God was so faithful in giving me strength and perseverance, as [...]

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