Living Out Our Faith

{12 Eternal Gifts} Let my Spirit…

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Let my spirit fill you. 1 Corinthians 3:16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? God longs to fill us with His Spirit.  It is a gift He gives us by faith in His holy Son as our Lord and Savior.  It is a gift that began before the beginning of time, came to earth in a miraculous manager birth, and manifested in our lives through the cross of Christ, bringing about the fulfillment of the Scriptures and giving us access to eternal life. The gift of God’s spirit dwelling within…

Open Your Heart

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Have you ever been accused, rather negatively I might add, of wearing your heart on your sleeve? Oh, for the life of me, I can’t even begin to count the number of times my parents, most certainly out of love, urged me to cover up my arm-band badge connected straight to my heart.  It was like there was a leaky valve, pouring my soul right out of my skin into the hands of any passerby. Looking back, I most certainly see why I was eager to leave my heart in a messy trail of relationships.  I was desperately trying to…

Conquering Conflict & Establishing Boundaries

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Maybe you’ve already figured this out: Conflict is a part of life! No matter how hard we try to avoid it, no matter how nice or kind or self-controlled we attempt to be, we will experience conflict as bump up against opinions, emotions, words, and actions of everyone we interact with (Romans 12:3-7, Romans 12:18, Hebrews 12:14). While we can avoid conflict, we can learn about what to do in the midst of it and how to resolve it.   A relationship impacted by conflict needs to be rebuilt slowly and intentionally, as we strive for peace, seek God’s truth, and walk…

Wrapped in Grace

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I brushed her hair away from the corner of her eye, staring for a moment into her deep browns and stalling time in my heart.  She is growing up.  Bursting forth before my eyes into a beautiful, radiant young woman.  Where have the last twelve years gone.  How can it be only twelve when she looks 16 teen and I feel like it has been 20.  And isn’t time funny?  In my mind’s eye she’s still a little toddler, on her knees pointing outward and upward toward the creeping buses lining the long driveway cutting through the center of campus.…

Celebrating Advent

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Christians around the world celebrate Advent each Christmas season.  Beginning with the first Sunday following Thanksgiving and marked off by the following three Sundays, Advent is a time to prepare your heart and mind for the glorious remembrance of Christ’s birth. Depending on church tradition and culture, Advent can be as simple as reading a portion of Scripture, lighting a candle, and saying a prayer.  It is a wonderful practice to share with family members, friends, college roommates, and even twenty-something colleagues after an evening dinner together throughout the Sundays in December. We encourage you to make the most of…

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