So you broke up. The person you loved took a good look at you and all you had to offer, looked you in the eye, and said, “I’ll try my luck elsewhere.” It has become glaringly clear that this was not the match made in heaven that you once thought it was. For whatever reason…
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Is this real life??
Who remembers the very first AOL? I do. I remember the “buddy list” where you had all your friends and could chat with them online via instant message. It was the coolest thing! These days, social media is HUGE part of our lives. Most people log on every single day to check out what their…
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“In a Relationship.”
“Christianity is not a religion; it’s a relationship.” That’s one of our favorite lines, and it is so true. Christianity is not just a list of “dos and don’ts” and “be good enough here and there” and you make it into heaven if you don’t mess up. That’s not our Jesus. True Christians are those…
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Let Hope Arise: an open letter to the families of the children of Sandy Hook Elementary
To the families of the children of Sandy Hook, As I sit on Monday morning and listen to the many sounds of my own school building where I teach, I think about what it must have been like on Friday morning just a few miles away at Sandy Hook Elementary. Just a normal day in a small…
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The Heart of the Modesty Issue
I have written about modesty before. I have written about why we need to modest in “Men are Pigs?” I have written about why Jesus expects us to be modest in “Jesus Doesn’t Care What I Wear.” But….where does modesty start? What is it all about? What does modesty really mean? It is not just…
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His unspeakable gift
Anyone can make a list of all the things that they are thankful for. We have been doing it every November ever since we could trace our little hands and draw a turkey with it. Thanksgiving is a great day to set aside some time to list all of the things we are thankful for….
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The Best-kept Beauty Secret
The world says the secrets to beauty are in diet pills, tanning booths, breast augmentations, wrinkle creams, and liposuction. We, of course, know this is untrue, but a lot of times as women {even christian women}, although we know this in our heads, we allow ourselves to be deceived by the lies of the world…
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What is “Christian love” though?
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. -Martin Luther “Love” has become sort of a “pet-virtue” of American Christian society. “Christians are supposed to love” has become a term used to bully Christians who actually stand up for Christ into shutting their mouths in the…
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Purity and the Jesus Standard.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Hebrews 13:4 God’s standard is purity-whole purity. We, as his children are told to remain sexually pure until marriage, and for good reasons. These are some frightening statistics about sexual activity in today’s society: • Sexually active people are…
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Is there not a cause?
1 Samuel 17. In the midst of an army of men, stood one little boy. One boy who saw clearly who the enemy was and what was at stake. The armies of Israel stood in fear with no man who would fight for them and for their God. Scared for their lives and with little…
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