Spiritual Formation

June 06, 2013
By Jacci Turner
Twelve Tips for Growing in Faith This Summer

If your life is like mine was, summer means leaving the support of your InterVarsity fellowship and church and living in the spiritual desert of your home environment. Without even a strong church tie at home, I spent my first two summers caught in a harmful cycle of sin, guilt, and little spiritual growth.

April 25, 2013
By Helen Troutman
What You Can Do with What You’ve Learned

I am not a leader. Or at least that’s what I keep telling myself. The problem is, no one but me seems to believe it. Ever since my staff worker encouraged me to fill out that leadership application at the end of my freshman year, I have been surrounded by people who are constantly calling me to lead stuff.

April 23, 2013
By Keith Sun
Giving Up My Girlfriend

As we go deeper in following Jesus, we all at some point enter into a heart-wrenching wrestling match with God in which we repeatedly ask whether he’s truly out for our best interest.

April 12, 2013
By Erica
How God Helps Us Love Ourselves

Just last semester, I was leading a Bible study with some friends who don’t follow Jesus, and one of them texted me out of the blue asking, “Erica, can God help me love myself more?”

April 10, 2013
By Ona Strikas
Glorifying God in Every Vocation

InterVarsity is very good at getting college students out of their conventional Sunday-school comfort zone. It is very good at calling us to “pick up our cross daily and follow him,” and to radically love the forgotten and downtrodden that Christ cared so much for. 

March 31, 2013
By Steve Wimmer
How the Resurrection Reorders Reality

Ah, Easter. Chocolate bunnies and a risen Lord . . . maybe not in that order. The resurrection of Jesus is the historical truth claim upon which the entire gospel hangs.

March 28, 2013
By Jen Herrmann
Thirsty?

For Lent this year, I decided to drink nothing but water. The plan was to give the money that I saved to help purchase clean water for those who have none...

March 27, 2013
By Drew Larson
The Madness of March

You’re feeling the March madness. No, not the madness of the upsets or the buzzer-beating shots.

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