Spiritual Formation
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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.

When I found my first Schitt’s Creek sticker out in the wild? MAGICAL. A sweatshirt with the name of the school I attend across the front? GIVE ME TEN.

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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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Why Your LaFe Small Group — and Every InterVarsity Small Group — Should Study Exodus

In celebration of Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month, we encourage you to consider walking through Exodus with your InterVarsity community. Whether you’re part of a LaFe group or not, Exodus carries powerful lessons for anyone grappling with their identity, their calling, or their responsibility to their community.
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How Embodied Community and Holistic Faith Can Relieve Gen Z's Mental Health Crisis

InterVarsity supports Gen Z by inviting them into vibrant, in-person communities and by giving them tools for holistic spirituality. But to do that well, it’s important to understand some of the underlying challenges contributing to Gen Z's struggles with mental health.
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Meeting God in Grief

It’s easy to forget that there is darkness in this world when it seems so far away. But what do you do when it’s at your doorstep? How do you forgive God when he lets these things happen?
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Biggest Takeaways From Dallas Willard's "Hearing God"

Discernment is a journey rooted in searching for God and responding in a direction he desires. It’s about hearing God. 
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Do We Still Believe in Miracles?

In the first part of my life of faith, I didn’t believe that miracles existed because I never saw a miracle.
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