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My New Year’s Resolution: Love, No Exceptions.
A few years ago I sat with one of the students from our college ministry and talked about life and what the world needs from Christians and the Church. He sat and thought for a few minutes and responded: “we, as Christians, really need to just love.” He paused for…
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Dropping Some Pounds: My 2013 New Year’s Resolution to Lose Weight
I’ve mainly kept this part of my year a secret. Every day I spent working on this resolution, was a day spent thinking I would never reach my goal and would revert back to where I began. This is why you (my Facebook) friends have not seen much about this…
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Eight Aspects of my “Family” I am Thankful for This Christmas
Laughter, good conversation, encouragement, presents, presence, and love- all good attributes of what I’m thankful for when it comes to family during the Christmas season. It is no accident, though, that I put family in quotation marks in the title of this post. For me, this Christmas, family goes beyond…
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Don’t Rush the Ticking
Tick. tock. tick. tock… In most of the rooms in our apartment (and in my office at the church) are “old school” clocks that tick and tock with each passing second. Sometimes I find myself so busy with whatever task I’m working on that I don’t even notice the faint…
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Why I Am Thankful for Baptists
During my time as a student in the Campbell University Divinity School I had the opportunity, in a church history class, to work on a project where I delved into the history of the Baptist tradition, particularly its beginnings in England and Amsterdam. Through this research, I gained a greater…
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Advent, Are You Prepared?
Tomorrow marks the second Sunday in the season of Advent- the time leading up to Christmas where we prepare for the “coming” of Christ and I wonder how well we are actually preparing. Sure, we’ve all dived head first into the Christmas season: our apartment already smells of pine needles…
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The Journey
I am convinced that life is a journey. Sometimes the path is straight and definite and sometimes you can’t see around the next corner. There are bright sunny days where you travel leisurely, basking in the warmth on your face and there are also days of thunder and rain where…
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Swirling Thoughts and Bright Lights
Time after time I struggle with what to type here. I have so many thoughts swirling in my head, so much going on in my life, that I don’t know where to start with putting it all down. I feel as if I have had so many things to share…
