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Self-Control and the City Without Walls
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. Proverbs 25:28, ESV Once I read an article online about abandoned malls. The photos that illustrated these old, broken down malls made me feel sad and slightly disconcerted. I wondered if something like this could happen in my city. How does a once living, thriving, community meeting place turn into an empty building with vines growing over the windows and tiny weeds putting down roots in the cracks in the fountain tile? Did the mall begin to look dilapidated before people stopping coming, or did it happen the other way around? The above verse from Proverbs…
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How Does Sin Affect Your Health?
Introduction Health and wellness are both fascinating topics to me. My parents ate using the Sugar Busters diet for a number of years, and I eventually started eating the same way during college (with occasional occurrences of ice cream and frozen pizza). Well into their 60s, my parents still both lift weights a few times a week and walk on a regular basis. My sister eats more fruits and veggies than anymore I’ve ever met and stays fit by doing a lot of yoga and indoor climbing. And that’s just my family! Outside of my family, health and wellness are popular topics with books, websites, companies, and entire industries dedicated…
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A Few of My Favorite Quotes from Let Me Be a Woman by Elisabeth Elliot
“You can’t make proper use of a thing unless you know what it was made for, whether it is a safety pin or sailboat. To me it is a wonderful thing to be a woman under God–to know, first of all, that we were made (‘So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.’) and then that we were made for something (‘The rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.’).” Elisabeth Elliot (pg. 22) *** “Wherever you are be all there. Live to…
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How the Purity Movement Affected My Life
For a couple weeks now, Christian websites and news sources (and even some secular news outlets) have covered what is going on in the life of Joshua Harris, the author of the controversial book I Kissed Dating Goodbye. (I don’t want to comment on his recent life choices here, except to say that I believe he needs people to pray for him.) This made me start to think about how the purity movement affected my life. As a teenager, I was a committed Christian who loved the Lord and wanted more than anything to do what pleased him. I took to heart Joseph’s words in Genesis 39, “How then can…
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Our Little Chicks All Grown Up
Remember these fluffy little cuties? They are all grown up now and giving us eggs! Our Americanas (Easter Eggers) lay light mint-green eggs, and our Isa Browns and Cinnamon Queens both lay brown eggs, some of which are speckled with tiny white dots. Our Easter Eggers have trouble laying in the nest box, so we often find their eggs huddled in the corner of the coop or even nestled in the grass in the run. We get anywhere from four to seven eggs a day. We chose four chicks from the brown egg-layer “grab bag.” To our surprise, two of those chicks were actually Leghorns, which lay white eggs. We…