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When the resolutions fail… what next?
The New Year has passed and you started your resolutions off strong. Then the motivation faltered and while you continued for a while one day of not doing turned into two, then three and now it’s been over a week and February is almost here. You are disappointed in yourself and wish that you’d stuck…
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Building Stronger Relationships: Resolutions for loving others as Jesus did.
How often do you talk to your friends? Have you spoken to them this week or even this year? What about your family? Do you have a good relationship with them? Do you wish you were better at keeping your relationships afloat instead of letting them drift away because of bad communication? Yeah, me too.…
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Growing in Faith: 10 Spiritual Goals for the New Year.
With the New Year approaching resolutions have been on my mind and I’ve been inspired. Faith is a big part of life and when it comes to resolutions, goals, habits. Whatever you choose to call them at the heart of mine this year is my faith. If I did nothing else but choose to grow…
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Unlocking the Power of Resolutions: How to Cultivate a Growth Mindset & Achieve Your Goals
Resolutions. A word that at any other time of the year doesn’t hold much power but coming up to the New Year it’s tossed around a lot as plans are made to be healthier in the coming year or to stop doing something because it’s bad for you. Nothing is wrong with this, it’s good…
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Sabbath: A Guide to Spiritual Rest
Lately, my thoughts have drifted to the Sabbath and how we should observe it. I know it isn’t always possible to observe it on a Sunday for various reasons, but I believe it is something we should observe as Christians. Genesis 2:2-3 confirms this because if our all-powerful God, who can do all things, takes…
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Overcoming Discouragement
Sometimes, it seems like there is nothing good in this world. We are faced with constant negativity, rejections, obstacles, and illness. It is hard, and what hope we have starts to fade. We’ve all been there, discouraged, wanting things to improve but not knowing how or when waiting for what feels like an eternity with…
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Discomfort: Why must we suffer to grow?
Discomfort is something we all live with. A fact of life and one that we would rather live without. Yet, without it, none of us would be who we are today. As painful and annoying as it can be, discomfort is not our enemy. It has shaped us and refined us in good ways and…
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The Idea of Perfection
Perfection is something we all strive for. Perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect life. Yet, it is something we fail to reach over and over again. We compare ourselves to others, setting standards we cannot hope to attain because we think they’ve reached perfection and, therefore, so can we. But it’s all a lie! Just because…
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Mindset + Faith = Freedom
In my last post I focused on the future, on the habits which will shape who we become. I stand by what I said because I truly believe it is in the process of becoming who we want to be that we become who we should be. I said then that the future seemed dark…
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Forgiveness: What You Need To Know
The concept of forgiveness is something we all struggle with, especially as Christians. We often question whether God truly forgives us, and when we inevitably sin again, we may try to hide from Him, thinking there’s no way He could forgive us again. However, forgiveness is integral to life, and we must learn to accept…
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