Spiritual Formation
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Do You Need a Mentor or a Spiritual Director?

Mentors, like Tyler and Paul, shaped some of the most important moments in my walk with Jesus.

In high school, Tyler challenged me to memorize Scripture, cast vision for evangelism that led to baptizing two friends, and created space for accountability — like the night he drove me home and listened as I confessed a secret sin that had been eating at my soul.

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Don’t Be a Good Leader. Be a Present One.

Being a good leader is overrated.

If you just stepped into leadership this year, you probably don’t believe that yet. You want to serve faithfully. You want to honor God, so you aim for “good.”

But what if the biggest threat to your leadership isn’t failure? What if it’s striving for good?

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What Do Students Really Think About AI?

Artificial Intelligence is inescapable. AI songs flood our social media apps, AI videos spread misinformation, and soon enough, AI-written books will dominate the self-publishing world. On campus, college administrators have quickly created policies around usage, and students have to contend with how the technology will impact their lives.
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Three Lies About Your Education

I sat down today to address this question: “What does your schoolwork have to do with your witness as a follower of Jesus?” From the very beginning of my task, though, I’ve encountered a problem: you’ve been lied to about your education. Not once. Not twice. Three times!
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From Bullet Points to Bride – How Song of Solomon Changed My Prayer Life

Prayer wasn’t very interesting or personal to me until I learned how to interact and have a dialogue (not a monologue) with Jesus.
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Praying like a Disciple: Embracing Jesus’ Brand

How do you feel about merch? Personally, I’m into it. It’s a really special feeling to find a shirt, sticker, or hat that perfectly communicates something about who you are, what you love, and which tribe you belong to.
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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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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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The Conference Mountaintop Isn’t the High. It’s the Detox.

We go to retreats and conferences hoping to “get filled.” And then we come home to a full calendar. To headlines filled with conflict and catastrophe. To the guilt of not living up to what we committed to. Some of us experience a lingering ache of “I still don’t know what I’m doing with my life.” So we say things like, “I just wish I could’ve stayed on the mountain.” But what if we’ve misunderstood the point? What if the mountaintop was never the high? What if it was the detox?
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