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4 Ways to Experience God in Transition
Life is full of transitions, both exciting and painful. But how do we go through tranistions and difficult seasons with God? How did Moses?
Family Beyond Blood
"Numerous people are committed to me like family, and I am included in their families and celebrations. God has given me the security of knowing that I belong, I am loved, and I am accepted unconditionally."
Sabbath Fits: Separating from Work
Sabbath can include doing anything that doesn't feel like an obligation or work.
Do You Have a Safety Net? How Community Helps Us Turn from Sin
A crucial gift that God has given us is Christian community. And by community, I don’t just mean Christians who hang out together but friends who lovingly speak God’s truth in grace to keep us on the right path. This is the kind of community the Bible encourages us toward.
What to Do When Life Gets Hard
In college, I got a Bachelor of Science degree in recreation and leisure studies. I avoided anything and everything that was hard.
Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches: Meet a Charismatic
As Charismatic Christianity affirms all the gifts of the Holy Spirit, believers can hear from God in multiple ways. God can speak through dreams, visions, prophetic words, or listening prayer. We see many examples of this in Scripture.
Reflections from an Enneagram Two: Learning to Receive from Others
Twos will never run out of people to help. At our best, we are loving, generous, and unselfish. We can provide a healing presence for others, reflecting God’s love.
Struggling on Christmas? Jesus Understands
How can we celebrate Christmas when we struggle with unresolved feelings of hurt and sadness for ourselves, our loved ones, and the world?
Spiritual Disciplines of Advent: Fasting
In this “hurried life,” how can we find more time with God? And how can we go deeper with God this Advent season when shopping, parties, and Christmas events get added to an already packed schedule?
The Painful Gift of Cultural Displacement
Sometimes God displaces us and sometimes we choose displacement to survive, thrive, or walk in obedience to God. However we end up being displaced, whether through persecution, a natural disaster, or by choice, such as taking a specific job, God uses displacement to shape us and draw us closer to him.