Lives for God's Glory
Shock waves reverberated throughout the United States on Wednesday as videos of Charlie’s Kirk’s assassination flooded the internet. Countless social media posts, podcasts, and messages are desperately seeking to place the blame on someone, or something. After watching Erika Kirk address the nation in the aftermath of her husband’s murder, my body shook with sobs. …
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Almost everywhere we turn, messages like “I am a child of the king,” “I am loved,” “I am chosen,” and “I am worthy” are plastered on t-shirts and water bottles. They are prevalent in many song lyrics, books, talk shows, and everyday conversations. These phrases of identity in Christ and worthiness in God’s eyes are …
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The Lord used my parents to shape me in many ways—but one stands out. I look back and remember my brothers and I gathering around my mom on the couch as she read Little House on the Prairie to us. I remember counting plastic bears at the kitchen table when we were first learning to count. I …
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“Follow your heart” seems to be the anthem of my generation. Gen Z has been given a lens through which to view the world, one that places self at the center. When there is no foundation of authority, there is an absence of absolute truth. Our culture tells us that we are free to change …
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Every week, we proclaim glorious truths of Jesus Christ and His substitutionary sacrifice on our behalf through song. We lift our voices among fellow brothers and sisters, sharing a unity of our love for this Christ, who has utterly transformed us and raised us from death to life. Our once hopeless lives have been redeemed. …
“I am so glad you will be able to have the ‘college experience’,” a couple of people have told me recently, when hearing of my plans to move out of state to attend college. After spending almost two years taking online college classes and living with my parents after high school, many are thrilled that …
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Drag Queen Story Hours have increasingly grown in popularity among many public libraries. One such story hour was held at Maryland’s Kensington Park Library in July of 2022. The library stated that “Drag Queen Hour captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity in childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.” There …
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Two-thirds of young adults between the ages of 18 and 22 leave the church for at least a year, many never returning. Church dropout percentages climb as members of Gen Z reach their 20s and enter the world of college and career, with only one-third attending church regularly. The statistics are staggering and quite clear. My generation, Gen …
It feels like déjà vu yet again. Sitting down at my computer, headphones in, I hear the familiar messages. Reading through my textbooks, I am constantly bombarded by them. Messages that contradict the Word of God. Messages that feel good to the hearer and those who believe in them. Messages that lead many to death. …
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I sit down at my computer once again. My fingers touch the keys. My thoughts wander. I have to write yet another paper but feel pulled toward so many other things at this moment. Why am I even in school? What about all the other things I wish to do? Does it really matter how …
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Lives Transformed 