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Your Turn: Do You Want to ‘Change the World’?

Do you want to “change the world”? I sure do. That’s part of the reason I’m interning with Compassion International this summer. Life is misty short; it’s not a cliché but divine truth (James 4:14). Scripture alerts us of our desperately short residenc …

Forget Pacific, Christians are on CST

At my church in Australia we have a saying: “Account for CST.” No, it’s not the name for the Aussie system of mandatory taxes (that’s GST if you’re interested). This ambiguous acronym is all about time — Christian Standard Time. Have you ever shown up …

I Did It!

  Saturday, Aug. 9, I ran my first 5K in like, um, six years. Here I am with my friend Karen at the end of it. Still alive. Whew. I’m mostly writing this just to finish the story. You know, the one where I haven’t exercised for about 5 years, and …

Your Turn: Stop the Comparison Game

Humans seem wired for the comparison game, and the tendency to evaluate our lives against the lives of those around us only seems to intensify the older we get. As I’ve lived through my 20s and now am closer to 30 than to 20, the tendency to compare my …

How to Be Faithful to Your Future Spouse

  A godly man will be faithful to his wife even though he doesn’t have one yet. I ran across this anonymous quote the other day, and it got me thinking about what it means to be faithful to your future spouse. Is it limited to emotional and physic …

Your Turn: A Few Words to the Traveler

It’s that time again: end of summer. New jobs, back to school, just got married. It means people are moving. A lot of change going on. I love moving, starting new things and meeting new people. I moved for the first time when I was 2 years old; then I …

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