open the Heavens
He is well pleased in you – do you believe that? You bring a smile to His face. No matter what temptation you may have fell prey to in the past, you are His beloved child.
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thoughts on a plane.
Do you ever feel like you have to paste on a new face, become someone less than you are in order to impress or fit in?
Read Morehurrying to arrive (what chicago taught me)
I have spent the past week in Chicago at a conference for Christians in student development. I have loved learning and thinking about my role, and listening to people teach about it who are really good at what they do. It has made me, more than think about what I do, ponder who I want […]
Read MoreRushmore, rush less.
When I finally find a time to slow down, to let my soul catch up with my schedule, I always come back to this question: What will your story be?
Read Moremy teenage heart
And the reality is that when I don’t spend time with Him I don’t have anything good in me, and I don’t have anything good to say.
Read Morechurch, for one.
“It wasn’t until I heard that…speech about self-doubt that it struck me: the real issue wasn’t that I felt like a fraud, but that I could feel something deeply and profoundly and be completely wrong.” – Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In I’ve tried really hard not to write about singleness. I don’t want to be one […]
Read Morespice up your life
Last weekend I went to a 90’s pop princesses sing-along, where they handed out glow sticks and miniature British flags and sticks with the faces of the men from Bridget Jones’s Diary on them. We danced and sang along to En Vogue, Ace of Base, Destiny’s Child, and of course, the Spice Girls. There were […]
Read MoreTrue Hope
By Lisa Beasley I was asked to speak to you about hope. Hope in Christ. Hope in Christ, my friends, is a dangerous thing. Hope in Christ is what gives you the strength you need to get through the day or month or year that has been unbelievably, heart wrenchingly hard. With that being said, […]
Read MoreWaiting in Hope
By Carin Tillman We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things […]
Read MoreBe Thou My Vision
Written by Lynn Eklund It’s so easy to get our hopes up in our culture- especially this time of year. When I was a little girl, I hoped Santa would bring me a Barbie Dream House every year. He never did. I think back to the year I really hoped my boyfriend (now husband) would […]
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