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Why My Coffee Habit Looks Just Like Sin
It’s 2:16 AM on a Friday morning (although, most sane humans would still consider this to be Thursday night) and I find myself sitting at my desk, wide awake having already attempted sleep for the last few hours. But, not unlike many nights lately, sleep skillfully avoids me like the plague. So here I am… sitting.…
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Is It Now or Never?
As I’m sure many of you have been doing, in the first few days of this new year I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reflecting about the last year of my life. I’ve thought about what I dreamt of accomplishing and what of that I actually accomplished. Last year, most of my new year’s…
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2016 Wrap Up
2016 has sure been something. On a personal, national and even international level, this has been a year of extreme controversy, heartache, hard choices and pretty much anything else you can think of that could drive a wedge between two people. This year we have shown, as a nation, that we have the capacity to…
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Timing
In this life we live it seems that timing is everything. My focus is rarely on how things will work out five minutes from now and almost always on how things will work out five weeks, months or years from now. I feel the need to plan everything according to the personal timeline I have…
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An Open Letter to My (and all) Youth Directors
Dear Youth Directors, This may seem a little “after the fact” seeing as I have been out of youth group for about a year now. It’s hard to imagine it really has been that long, but, I have been out long enough for another entire group of kids to graduate behind me and for brand…
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Go Love Everybody
In the first half of this semester, I read the book “Love Does” by Bob Goff. Basically, the whole book is his perspective on the different events of his life (his incredible life, that is) and his perspective of how God has played into that. He relates his experiences to God’s love and reminds you constantly of the…
Samantha Reynolds 