What is your legacy?

This summer is different because I'm not around anyone my age. It's difficult, but it also has it's rewards. Christ is showing me areas of my heart that need to be cleaned so I can fully serve him. Sometimes it's discouraging because there will always be areas of my heart that need cleaning, it's an ongoing process...Last night, I felt discouraged, and displaced....

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Bread is life. They are synonymous. Perhaps in a previous post I explained this, but in many middle eastern cultures the words bread and life are one in the same. There isn't a difference. How much more significant this makes it when Christ says, "I am the bread of life.... this bread IS my flesh."? (John 6) Today as I ate at an...

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Clean I call you cleanI came to clean you and it’s doneHere’s a call to all who’veFelt disqualified to runPleasures flowing here and thereFrom my right handWhat’s mine is yoursCome behold all of who I amYou and I will runYou and I will run foreverAll is doneYou and I will runCome with what you do not haveAnd buy what’s undeservedFeast and drink, the...

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There are many places where Paul says "I die everyday," and every time I read this, I am reminded that that is our call. Paul says he counts everything as loss compared to knowing Christ. He claims that even though he comes trembling and in weakness and fear that he wants to know Christ and him crucified and that's it. Through reading the...

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To tell you in my own words what is going on in Koln, Hamburg, Germany and in me, the interns, etc... in my own words would almost dumb it down, so I will let the following tell you what is going on..Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can...

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Finally, be strong in the Lord and the strength of his might. Ephesians 6: 10The past two weeks have been spent working in Koln, not only helping the team here but also working along side the interns, while also meeting many who live here and building relationships and friendships.For the first time, in a very long time, I have truly begun to realize...

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Father is teaching me so much ranging from where my insecurities and securities lie to what he is and has been calling me to. It's exciting to see how things and people have changed from the past year (including two starbucks... which have taken the place of 1) my favorite eis shop and 2) my favorite restaurant).He has shown me areas in my...

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today is laundry day!Tomorrow, I will leave for Cologne, Germany to help the M there for 10 days. This is the last summer the M is there and the interns will get there on the 13th. We are going to help with logistical things such as money and getting everything in order such as train tickets and stuff. It'll be nice to go...

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She sits in the corner, next to a big tree. A tree that seems to be alive and well to the onlooker, but it never grows, it never changes. The smell of smoke surrounds her, and gazing up, she sights a young man carefully looking through some art work while balancing a cigarette between both lips. He studies the work with a friend,...

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To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey. First John 2:6 states "whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did." Jesus was in the world, engaged, alive, involved, making a difference. To follow him, we must do the same. His prayer for us in John 17 is "Not...

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Today has been such a refreshing day. I started off the morning feeling "off," with this overbearing feeling of not understanding myself, not understanding Father, and feeling as if i was living a life in which my faith was slowly dying. I spent the morning praying, journaling and trying to figure out what has changed in my heart since last summer. I know...

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