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InterVarsity Alumnus Jessie Thomas Listens to Jesus on Set, at the Table, and Everywhere Else

Jessie grew up in New York City in a South Asian Christian family. Her parents were church planters who could trace their Christian heritage back to the apostle Thomas. While faith was a huge part of Jessie’s early life, it didn’t become real and personal to her until she got involved in InterVarsity as a college student in Amherst. As Jesus became the center of her life, she decided to surrender everything to him, including her career.
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Do I Need a Significant Other to Experience Intimacy?

Our culture today confuses the intimate with the romantic, sometimes resulting in confusion between friends and often the sexualization of intimacy. But at its core, intimacy just means to know and be known.
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How to Navigate the Sophomore Slump

“Sophomore slumps” can hit us all. Some of us decide to follow Jesus for the first time and are excited to go all in with him. Then, a year later, we find ourselves struggling to maintain that same fire we once had.
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Tilled in Prayer, Bearing Great Fruit: Greek InterVarsity at Purdue

On the Purdue campus, every Panhellenic sorority has a Bible study and so do over half of the fraternities. Fueled by spiritual hunger and steady discipleship, Greek InterVarsity at Purdue is training and sending students to their houses to love and witness to their friends, until “every Greek is one friend away from Jesus.”
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God Used It for Good: Austin's Story

One crazy experience became a launching point for Austin to discover genuine faith.
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Love God, Love His People: Kaitlyn's Urbana Story

I stepped into my first large group session at Urbana 25, longing for my bed, after a 27-hour road trip from Wisconsin to Arizona. But that first night Jennie Allen told us to open our eyes. To ask ourselves what was holding us back from receiving what Jesus had for us. To listen. I realized that there were more important things than getting enough sleep that night. By the end of the week, I understood why the Lord had brought me to Urbana.
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Coming in a Good Way at Tribal Colleges

Coming in a good way means asking permission when arriving at a new space and being invited there by Creator God and the local community. It involves taking initiative to build relationships and connections with people you meet and thanking Creator God for witnessing his works. Eventually, it should lead to partnership.
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Christ and Nothing Else: Sam’s Story

In November of her freshman year, Sam had a conversation with an InterVarsity student leader that she would vividly remember a whole year later. 

The leader told Sam that if he lost everything –– his family, his belongings, everything and everyone –– he would still be okay, because he has Jesus.

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Cultivating Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love this Advent

It’s been a really hard year. Two of my grandparents have been in and out of the hospital all year, and my dog passed away at the age of six in July due to cancer. I’ve had to walk with students and friends through some really complicated circumstances. And to put the sarcastic cherry on top, I’ve had to wrestle with all the death and destruction I see in the world.

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Cloud-Like Dreams: Does God Care About Your Dreams?

From the get-go of human history, one of our shared universal experiences has been cloud-watching.

Clouds are one of the few things we have in common across time, geography, culture. We’ve always had an “up” to look towards, and in that up-space, the “sky,” we’ve always seen them: wisps and blankets that wander the expanse above us. 

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