I’m starting to learn that living a life for Jesus is a lot about how well you walk in the valleys. Sometimes we just get stuck—stuck in between the crisis and the turning point where everything is okay. Sometimes we get stuck in the “I’m okay, but not good” point. Sometimes we are confident about…
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Have you ever really blown it? Like really blown it… Did you find it difficult to move on from that, even after you’ve confessed and repented before God and with whomever you may have offended? Does it haunt you at night and follow you throughout the day? Sometimes, it seems impossible to shake the guilt…
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“Classical forms change due to virtuosos. Because they’re not wholly rejecting a certain style or form, they’re just pushing the boundaries.” I read this quote in an article about artistic styles and norms, specifically in dance, and what creates them or changes them. The standards of technique in dance styles have changed pretty drastically over…
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Let’s be real for a minute. Pornography can totally change the way you see everything: people, places, things, circumstances, life. Porn changes the way you think. It gets your brain wired on this endless cycle of constantly seeking to be over-stimulated, and it corrupts your heart to crave and steal pleasure at the expense of…
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Life is tough, and some days it seems like every internal reserve you have is tapped out while the demands and the turmoil continue beating down on you. I’ve been there. Sometimes the weariness and the tension can even lead you to wish you could end it all or make you wonder if it is…
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This is a quiet post… A moment of stillness for those whose hearts are broken… All our hearts have cracks in them; we have each been shattered in different ways. Maybe you’re weeping right now; maybe your heart is frozen in stillness. Perhaps the wounds have long turned to scars, or maybe…
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We all have things in our lives which try to hold us back. Some of these things are obvious while others are more subtle and hard to see, frequently disguising themselves as just a normal part of life or lurking behind the scenes of other more blatant problems. It is easy, in the face of…
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One year ago last week I stood at a Holocaust grave in Stolin, Belarus. However, it has taken me until now to be able to put words to that experience.That summer of 2016 was the 75th anniversary of World War II’s impact on Belarus, when they lost about a third of their population. This was…
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I was 11 years old when my curiosity first got the best of me, and I picked up a book that contained explicit sexual material. At that point, I didn’t even know what sex was, but I knew that reading it made me feel good. So I went back again. And again. It wasn’t long…
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It has been almost a month since the 4th of July. Did you realize that? Do you even really remember what that day was like or what you did in the following days and weeks? I bet it has slipped most everyone’s mind by now, pushed away by the business of life. For us, the 4th of…
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