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Tag: faith and growth
What I Learned From Being Quiet
In the process of fasting from certain types of speech, I'm actually discovering more about how to speak: to be direct and kind, to think about why I'm saying what I'm saying, to make my words matter more when they come out. [Click title to read more.]
Inherited Christianity
One of the subtle scourges of belief is what I call "inherited" Christianity: when people claim Christianity not because they've ever really developed a relationship with Christ or taken steps forward to walk with Him, but because they've always sort of been at church and thus assume that's just what it means to be a Christian, or because since their family is so committed and Christian they assume they naturally are, too. [Click title to read more.]
Christian Vulnerability
I am often intimidated by Christians who never seem to portray any sort of vulnerability or meaningful emotion in any situation ever. [Click title to read more.]
Let People Try
We must not become dream-killers. [Click title to read more.]
The Honest Believer Is A Precious Gift
The Christian life is good. It is full of blessings and joy, and it is the privilege of walking alongside God and speaking to Him as a friend. It is also full, at times, of unanswered questions, hurts that seem as though they might not heal, bewildering events, and circumstances that we have no idea how to plan for. Bless the believers who acknowledge this. [Click title to read more.]
A View On “Biblical Literacy”
The key to Biblical literacy is that all of us - even those who pass Biblical literacy quizzes with 100% scores - need to work on always knowing the Bible better, regardless of the amount of knowledge we currently possess. [Click title to read more.]
New Year’s Resolutions and the Myth of Change
Mark my word: things will change for you this year. The person you will be at the cusp of 2018 will not be, God willing, the same person who walked into 2017. [Click title to read more.]
Blessed Be The Familiar, The Ordinary, and the Unremarkable
What you do might seem ordinary to you, and yet be remarkable to others. God wants to use the familiar in your life. [Click title to read more.]
Empathy Is Not A Dirty Word
When we engage in empathy we get closer to a real understanding of someone; we get a peek into who they are and what their soul is like. And it is from that beginning that we can build a relationship with someone, and also - perhaps most importantly - understand how it is that we can serve them and show them the love of Christ. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 