Tag: ministry
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How to Have Counter-Cultural Opinions Without Offending Anyone
This has been my struggle lately. I look at the way the world is turning, and how seemingly concrete things like gender and marriage and the right to life are being questioned like never before. Sometimes I post my thoughts about certain issues, and ‘m really not trying to be controversial, I just really feel…
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The Fatal Flaw of My Generation
Amy March said something poignant in Little Women. She said “We’re all going to grow up sometime; we might as well know what we want.” I look around me and see an appalling lack of desire in my generation. Perhaps, in an effort to be holy, we surrendered our desires at the foot of the…
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Being Faithful When Your Dreams Aren’t Coming True
In an age where everything seems to come instantly, Lord, teach us to be faithful in times of waiting.
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There Is No Striving
It is only after being placed in an environment where I am encouraged to be myself that I find just how difficult that is. In the past few months, I have embarked on a journey toward finding out who God created me to be apart from my job, my family, friends, social networks and even…
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What Does it Mean to Be a Woman?
What Does it Mean to Be a Woman? I ask myself this question often. When I am deciding what to wear, early in the morning, before I work out, before I go to work. I ask myself as I encounter people at home and at the coffee shop, as I eat and as I cook.…
Sarah D. Shearer 