The Most Painful Thing You’ll Ever Have to Do
Honestly, I’m probably in no position to be writing about “the most painful thing you’ll ever have to do.” I’m twenty-five years old. A quarter of the way through life if you take the optimistic approach. Many people have gone through things much, much more painful than me. That’s why…
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Why I Love Today
Today is the day before Easter and in my opinion, it’s one of the most significant days of the year. To be clear today is Saturday. The forgotten day of Easter weekend. Today was the day of darkest despair for followers of Jesus. On Friday, when Jesus died, I’d imagine…
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What have you been hearing from the Christians?
If you haven’t listened to Kanye West’s new album, Jesus Is King, yet, you really should. If you have followed Jesus all or most of your life it might elicit the following responses: – Is Kanye ACTUALLY a Christian now? -Why is God using him? He’s a sinner! His life…
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The Truth About Hell
The other day I had a revelation that had never occurred to me before. All my life I thought Satan wanted people to go to Hell for two main reasons: Misery loves company. Satan knows God reigns over all and Hell was created for him, therefore he wants as many…
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Six Words that Will Change Your Perspective
Most of us have been to Hobby Lobby, TJ Maxx, or Target. I certainly frequent these stores much to my budget’s dismay. One of my favorite sections is the wall art and decor department, also known as the “I Can Convince Myself I Need This Department.” One of the things…
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How’s married life treating you?
Ahh the question everyone gets the first time they see every person they know who’s gotten married. It’s similar to when you return from Spring Break in college and everyone has to ask “how was your spring break?” To quickly summarize how married life has been I’d say it’s been…
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The Secret of Contentment
Consider this blog Part 2 of “The Secret of Being Confident.” It’s been awhile since I’ve written that blog, but Pirates of the Caribbean 4 came out four whole years after Pirates 3, so I think it’s still okay. Let’s talk a little bit about what discontentment feels like. Most people identify discontentment as unhappiness…
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The Secret of Being Confident
Many of us do not love ourselves. Why not? For me I had this voice in my head saying I wasn’t good enough. I’ve found it’s so easy when admiring others to get in the thought pattern of, “man, I could never be as pretty as *blank*” or “I just can’t sing as well as…
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Every Sunrise, Every Sunset
Do you ever just feel like you’ve done all you can? You’ve prayed to God, you’ve sought after Him, you’ve believed and not doubted and yet the answer doesn’t come. You get to this point in life when you know God cares, you know He sees you but you’ve come to the conclusion that He’s…
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What To Do When You Don’t Know
I recently got back from the trip of a lifetime to Germany and London! Packing for it was hard because while there we would be doing a bunch of random and different activities ranging from business meetings to hiking. Let me start out by saying packing is not my strong point. I pretty much go…
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The Desires of Your Heart
I recently read the book The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson. In it there was a great story about a lady who worked for the Dream Center in Birmingham, AL. She said that one day, after praying, she felt the Lord impress on her to take a pair of wooly socks with her to work. …
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Some Things Never Change, Then Again…
Tomorrow is the first day of my last semester of undergrad. I was thinking today about how many things in my life have changed since I was a freshman. Change is guaranteed in life, so I’ve learned time and time again (the hard way) it’s better to embrace change and come out ahead than resist…
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Grasping ‘It’
You either have ‘it’ or you don’t. You don’t get ‘it’ until you’ve gotten ‘it.’ ‘It’ is something that’s hard to explain unless you’ve grasped it, so bear with me as I attempt to explain ‘it’ and why it’s so important in your life. ‘It’ is something to be grasped. You may have heard…
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My Love/Hate Relationship with Social Media
Honestly, I love social media. You can be anything you want on social media: some people are funny, some are inspirational, some are…not funny…. I love sharing tweets and seeing people’s reactions. I love laughing at friends I follow that are funny, I feel like I stay in touch with people I haven’t talked to…
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Without Borders
“Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders.” When I first heard the song Oceans by Hillsong United I thought it was beautiful, repetitive enough to get in your head, and passionate. It is everything a song should be. Then it came time to sing it at church. I’ll never forget the first time…
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Romans 8:38, 39
When I think about God’s love for us it’s a bit hard to understand. Having never had children of my own, I believe in God’s love for us but I can’t even begin to grasp it. I was reminded of the stomach-churning shooting in Aurora, Colorado at the theater over a year ago. There was…
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Psalm 25:5
One of my favorite songs is My Hope Is In You by Aaron Shust. They used to play it after church and I guess I got stuck in my head enough for me to buy it and listen to it a hundred more times. The lyrics basically say just that: my hope is in You…
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