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Taking Jesus home
Your conversion is a personal affair — no one can discount it. Yet you want your loved ones to experience what you’ve experienced. Telling your family about your faith is full of risk and adventure.
 
The benefits of forgiving
Our ability to love others who have sinned against us flows out of our real experience of Jesus forgiving our own sins. If we find it impossible to love one who has hurt or wronged us, it is probably because we refuse to forgive that person.
 
From here to eternity
Your closest and most supportive campus friendships don't need to stop with graduation.
 
Singled Out?
A series of journal entries about God, dating, singleness and the future.
 
Sidebar — Family Wounds
Family relationships offer both joy and pain. Brokenness and dysfunction can seriously affect our relationship with God.
 
Sidebar — Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the key to healing.
 
The Road Called Forgiveness
Forgiving a parent is never easy, but it can be done, and it starts with us.
 
What Can’t You Forgive?
Forgiveness as a theme for a chapter outreach event.
 
Forgiving My Father
A son is called to see his dying father, but hurt and anger from the past are getting in the way.
 
The Medical Missionary
Fiction: Erick wasn’t going to give up his plans for someone he barely knew—even if he was a Christian brother.
 
Turning the tongue to good
Praising one another is like praising God, because we're talking about his sons and daughters.
 
A Cup of Clarity
A poem about relationships.
 
Some handy tips for dating relationships
Help for couples who are dating, whether just starting out or about to be engaged.
 
Rise Up, O Men of God!
Christian men wrestle with very basic relational questions. Some of these questions live in our souls at the most existential level.
 
Pastor Ken's Can't-Miss Recipe for Making Gossip Jerky
Nobody wants to be the subject of gossip! Here are 3 ingredients to remove the juiciness from gossip and instead create dry, tough gossip jerky.
 
Accidental Friendships
The question is not, "Which relationships will I pursue?" but rather, "How will I conduct myself in my relationships?"
 
The Lost Art of Lingering
Don't apply the "cheap and easy" mentality of consumerism to relationships with God and each other.
 
Embracing Criticism
What do you do when someone surprises you with harsh words of correction?
 
Making Peace
Being the peacemaker isn't always easy, but it's worth the risk.
 
The Leadership Equation
The world is filled with ideas about what a real leader is, but most of them are dead wrong. Here is a different view.
 
Anatomy of a Discipler
How can you care for others in the kingdom and help them become better disciples of Jesus Christ?
 
The Art of Friendship
Having friends and being friends are two very different things.
 
What is a True Friend?
Sidebar to "The Art of Friendship"
 
 
Building Bridges
How one student is crossing cultural barriers at Appalachian State U.
 
"Hey, you've got it on backwards!"
First day in a gospel choir.
 
Creating Community [Case#1] - Looking for Cliques
Cliques: Are they a problem in your chapter?
 
Creating Community [Case#2] - Building an Intimate Community
Even the close-knit communities that seem to have it all together may be carrying around a lot of hurt underneath it all. How can the past hurts be put aside and be replaced with intimacy?
 
Creating Community [Case#3] - Growing Pains
What do you do when your chapter grows and grows--and the older students don't like the disturbance in their pre-existing community?
 
 
Being A Good Small-Group Member
Are you a good small-group member?
 
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