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Pantheism: Understanding An Impersonal Doctrine

For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. (Hebrews 3:4) Truly, I do not believe these words can be ambiguously translated to mean the “universe” is the …

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Movie Review: “Split” Readers, this is new. You're familiar with me writing solely spiritual-related material. Though I will most heavily continue to focus my articles on faith, purpose, and our journey of life, I will start sporadically including movie reviews in the mix.

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Transformed From Within: How We Are Meant To Live Life is precious. Every breath is significant—as any one of those breaths could be our last. That is an exhilarating truth; both an invitation to truly live, and a heeding not to do anything less.

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God Is In Control

God Is In Control

All of my hope, all of my faith, all of my trust, and all of my purpose is in Christ, and Christ alone. Where is yours?

When I look at the world today, I have pity—but not fear. I am constantly reminded of the reasons why I know we are called to be the light in the darkness. Here is what I remember—this is what keeps me inspired. May the following words inspire you and nudge you towards the hope…

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Faith, Fairy Tales, & Our Ultimate Reality Just as the broken heart takes time to heal, the lost soul takes time to acknowledge the light; understanding that the light even existed in order to believe it was ever in darkness.

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Niceness and Vices: What Lies Underneath When genuine Christ-followers (those who live authentically different lives after declaring Christ as Lord) meet me, they recognize my faith and smile at my joy.

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Growing Familiar With God Life of disbelief made me feel like I was drowning; life was the pool and I had nothing to float on. 

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The Uphill Battle Of Pride and Humility

The Uphill Battle Of Pride and Humility

Humility digs deeper than the rudiments of opening doors for the elderly, or the simplism of admitting our wrongs. Humbleness derives of the spirit’s willingness to be broken in order to grow—surrender in the form of release; not surrender to the loss of authenticity, but to the release of the egocentric mind and its narcissism. 

We discover humility upon, for instance, the consideration of…

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Finding Miracles At Our Breaking Point We all need someone to look up to; a role model, an inspiration, someone to emulate and challenge us to be better versions of ourselves.

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Reminiscence: The Power Of Testimony As we entered 2017, I rediscovered a song by one of my favorite rock artists, Red, called "Take Me Over", from their album Of Beauty and Rage.

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Lust: The Darkest Lie About Love One of my most embarrassing soft spots during my adolescence was my desire for a romantic relationship.

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Determinism Vs. Free Will: The Schism Of Perspective We all know how it feels to be told we don't have a choice. What's worse is to experience what seems like the loss of choice in a situation we literally can't see any other way around, challenging our perspective of the truth of free will and the legitimacy of choice.

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The Light That Shines In the Darkness: Part 2

The Light That Shines In the Darkness: Part 2

One of the responsibilities of being an effective writer is learning to reach your audience, and a part of that responsibility is recognizing who your audience is in order to reach them efficiently and purposefully. Myaudience, as you may have come to know, must be open-minded, vulnerable, and willing to think outside the box. You don’t have to be a believer of Jesus, nor do you have to be an…

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In the Vein Of Morality: The Core Of Altruism During an In N Out visit about two weeks ago, I heard the very brief culmination of an ambivalent spiritual conversation between my Christian friend, sitting across from me, and a young man—possibly 18-22 years of age—as he attempted to finish his drink while standing up to leave in order to shorten their dialogue, finishing his thoughts by saying, "You don't need religion to be moral." 

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Christ-like Resolve In the Face Of Idolization

Christ-like Resolve In the Face Of Idolization

Starting this blog about 11 months ago, I felt called to write about my past to encourage readers like you about your future. If anyone were to ask me about my past now in order to understand how I reached where I am today, I would gladly explain; however, at this point in my journey as a writer, I am more passionate about helping you to understand how to receiveJesus’s love, and what that looks…

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Departing From Stoicism: Allowing Ourselves To Feel What would be the purpose of healing if we didn't first experience pain? Like the shift in perspective between seeing the glass as half-full or half-empty, faithfulness is a drastic shift in perspective from faithlessness.

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Allowing Ourselves To Feel: The End Of Stoicism What would be the value of healing if we didn't first experience pain? Like the perspective shift between seeing the glass as half-full or half-empty, faithfulness is a drastic perspective shift from faithlessness.