Decision Making Tips and Tricks: Part 2
What exactly is discernment? How can it be helpful for decision-making? If you haven’t yet read the first blog in this series, make sure to read that one first! It introduces some important concepts for discerning and gives a helpful step-by-step overview for one of the two methods of discerning. This blog discusses the second method.
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Decision Making Tips and Tricks: Part 1
“I just don’t know how to choose!”
The above exclamation is one that I have both said and heard many times. Making decisions is hard! Making decisions about big life events, like what job to take or whether you should tithe your career through GoCorps, is even harder. We all want to make good choices and as Christians, we all want to follow God. But how do you know where to go and what to do?
Thankfully, we don’t have to make these decisions alone.
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5 Ways to Strategically Use Your Winter Break
As winter break approaches, many students find themselves eager to relax and unwind from the challenges of the academic semester. While it's essential to recharge, consider leveraging this time strategically to make a meaningful impact in the lives of others. Here are five ways to use your winter break with purpose:
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Advice from the Field: My Letter to Future Goers.
As I am writing this I am trying to think, is this time what I expected it to be? What were my expectations going into the two years (either spoken or unspoken)?
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The God of the Nations and the Next Step
What does it mean to know God in all his sovereignty and kingship over the world, but also relate to him individually as the Father who intimately knows us, and our needs, and patiently leads us? I can’t answer that question with a neat theological bow, but I can offer my story of how God took me from my home country to the nations and knew me deeply along the way.
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What Does the Old Testament Say About Missions?
You’ve probably heard people talk about one or two verses in the Bible about why you should go overseas. But seriously...one tiny verse? Who wants to hang their entire future on one verse?
Did you know there is actually a lot more the Bible has to say about why God cares that people go to share His love with other parts of the world?
4 Ways to Make the Most of Your Study Abroad
I still deem my study abroad experience as one of the top highlights of my life. There is something so unique about dedicating a few months to a culture and people while you’re in a season of learning. My experience studying abroad in South Africa is a huge reason why I am doing what I am doing right now as a mission coach, why I am the person that I am today, and why I am sitting here writing this blog. But I don’t think the story would have been written that way if it weren’t for the wisdom and knowledge I was handed before I headed on a plane in the Spring of 2015.
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4 Things to Do in College That Can Prepare You for Missions
Our society gets college so wrong. On its best days, it’s treated as a career stepping stone to launch young adults into the workplace. At its worse, it's treated as a type of cultural purgatory between adolescence and adulthood that we use to fend off the real world by stuffing it with as many parties and bad decisions as possible.
But what if God had a design for your time at college to be so much more than either of those things? What if He wanted to use these years to form you and prepare you to join Him in His global work in bringing redemption and salvation to the nations?
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How to Prayer Walk
God hears us. It’s one of the most beautiful truths we rest under as Christians. And not only does he hear us, but God hears us in all times and places. Psalm 139 says He knows us when we sit down and when we rise up; He discerns our thoughts from afar and knows our words before they even leave our mouths.
Our God knows us deeply, invites us to pray, and assures us that he hears us no matter where we are or what we are doing. Those fundamental truths underlie the beauty of what it means to prayer walk.
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The Elephant in the Room: Is Fundraising Biblical?
What are your feelings about fundraising? If you’re like most people, you probably have some feelings of trepidation towards fundraising. Fundraising for ministry can be a countercultural idea, so it naturally brings up some fears and anxieties.
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