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Mentoring: Unexpected Friendship

"She was everything that I was not, but the Lord knew that we needed each other. I know and love God more intimately because I …

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Mosaic Inspire | Gospel Transformation

Recently, our Mosaic adults have been working on writing and sharing their testimonies. Here is a small glimpse into some of their stories.

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Showing God's Love through Neighboring

"To go to a place where most people are actually different than us—it gives us an appreciation of what that feels like for someone else. …

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Growth through Fostering

Everything is challenging about fostering. It’s scary to step into something that’s unfamiliar to you. But God is just ready to pour out to you …

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Body Image and Contentment

"Our relationship to the Lord is greatly affected by the way we carry ourselves and view our bodies. He wants to use us, he wants …

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Front Porch Housing | Missional Residency

"I've been learning the most about my relationship with God here just in intentionality. I think so much of our faith comes down to intentionality …

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Discipling Our Students

"It's what we're supposed to be doing as a church. We take our strengths as parents, and we bring those to our children, and then …

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Christ is All I Need

"What actually matters? Who am I to say when my heart will stop beating? So for me to live for marriage, or for a job, …

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Growth in Difficult Times

“In our difficult times is when we grow, reach out to God, and cry out to God. And that’s what he wants. He is our …

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The Gospel Comes to Life

"For the first time, I heard the gospel with open ears. God showed me that the God I had claimed to worship was the same …

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Trust in the Face of Grief

"For every excuse that I gave, Jesus was always there to fill the gap, to remind me that he is God in flesh and bone, …

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Using Your Talents to Serve Others

"This is not just about the task. We can't fix it all, but we can connect with this person, make them feel valued, and help …

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Seeking God in Infertility

One of the things that sticks with me in this process is that God can be trusted. Even if his plan is not what we …

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Obedience through Baptism

"It's uncomfortable. It's not super easy to get up in front of all these people you know and take a public bath. But if you …

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Natural Burial—Grieving in Community

If there is anybody to go through this with, the church through which I worship the Lord is definitely a partner in that. They volunteered …

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A Severe Mercy

"My orientation of my heart is that I serve at the pleasure of the King. What's my assignment? I don't like my assignment. But it's …

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Obedience in the Face of Shame

"I would weep watching others get baptized—tears of joy for them because they had the courage to take the next step in following Christ, but …

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Creating a Safe Space for Community

"You can't create community, but you can create an environment where community can happen. Our part in that as hosts and as leaders has been …

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Recovery—Serving Others Because of Jesus' Love

We all have similar stories—drugs, jail, alcohol. And then these people come in, all these volunteers, and they just love you. They come in and …

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Serving—Overcoming Fear of Inadequacy

"God is constantly reminding me and putting me in situations where I don't feel equipped, and I've learned that that is a great thing for …

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Asking the Holy Spirit for Help in Leadership

Cindy Watters shares how God used Biblical Femininity to change and teach her. Now as she leads studies, she shares how she has to rely …

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Serving

Stephanie Clarey shares how serving in the church in a new and disruptive season taught her about her individuality and giftings and how it can …

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Trusting God through Suffering

What does it look like to trust the Lord in this life when he might allow us to endure really painful things?

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A New Life in Jesus

God has healed so many wounds I had. Two of the most important things I’ve learned are how to love and serve my Lord. And …

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Mosaic Inspire—Belonging and Purpose

Before they discovered Mosaic Inspire, both Morgan and Joni struggled with isolation and lack of community. This program fulfilled many needs for their family: a …

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Overcoming Trauma and Depression through the Power of the Holy Spirit

"Now that I've met Jesus in a different way, I can deal with the shame and the guilt knowing that he's taken all that to …

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Grace Church Housing | Former Resident Ashley Cheek

"It was unbelievable the love and support that they were giving to a complete stranger. It was a type of love I didn’t think was …

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Seeking God in Tragic Circumstances

"Just because you have a relationship with Christ doesn't mean your life is going to be great. Coming to the Lord doesn't mean you're going …

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Front Porch Housing | Volunteer Career Counseling Taskforce

A team of career professionals band together to assist residents as they work to reenter the workforce.

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Kiersten Mills: Redeeming Sexuality Study

After interning with Grace, Kiersten led a Redeeming Sexuality study at her college in Atlanta. She describes the impact the study had on herself and …

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Laurie's Story: The Powerful Process of Releasing Control

Laurie shares her process of recognizing the power of control and how God helped her to release it.

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Matti Craig: Engaging Body Functionality

The Body Matters study was not what Matti expected. God used it to release the weight of frustration around her chronic illness and bring her …

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Learning Humility Through Missions

"I knew that I was going to have to take a humble posture. . . . This tension built throughout the week—this underlying understanding that …

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A Life Transformed by Jesus

"I can remember specifically when I fully gave my life away to Jesus. It's amazing to seen the turnaround in 18 months. It's nothing that …

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Showing Jesus' Love Through Families Count

"We're not there be the one to fix anything, but it's to point them to Jesus, who is the Rescuer. It's not about what we …

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Grace Housing—Seeing God's Provision

"We are flooded with more than we could ask for. The ability to both disciple the volunteers and learn myself what God has for us …

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Grace Church Housing | Former Resident

Grace did an excellent job of stepping into a messy situation with me and walking me through this process. They’re adamant about not letting their …

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Grace Church Housing | Current Resident

“I didn’t know anything like Grace Housing existed. It is literally life changing. You don’t have to do it alone. They’ll love you till you …

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Grace Housing Volunteer | Dental Work

“I feel like it’s an outlet for what the Lord has called us to do—loving people. It’s so easy to do it, and it’s just …

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Grace Housing Volunteer | Apartment Setup

“It’s not just stuff thrown together. Residents provide preferences, and we try to make it unique to them. That’s what makes it really fun—trying to …

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The Gift of Godly Friendship

"When you start to dig down and scratch off the layers, we have so much in common and we're so alike. . . . When …

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Serving in the Face of Disruption

"It's so disruptive to go and serve, but that's what we're called to do. If I know that we're supposed to be serving and I'm …

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Learning in Community

"It's way easier for me to work on managing the fruit rather than digging down deep to figure out the root causes of that fruit. …

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Grace Housing—Community and Healing

"God has used people, re:gen, biblical community to help me surrender to him. I've had such a fear and lack of trust of people, that …

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Re:gen—Life Change through Brokenness

"I joined re:gen for one reason, but God of course had a different reason—a much deeper reason—for me to go. . . . The thing …

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Finding Jesus in the Midst of Tragedy

"God was showing me that if I had nothing else but him, it would still be enough. . . . I really had no other …

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Leading Authentically through Loss

"We were leading a community group at that time, and I tried to keep it together. I finally just realized—I'm leading this community group, but …

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Experiencing Christ's Love and Acceptance through the Church Body

"This church is not like most churches. I feel like love should be shown, and y'all definitely show y'all's love. Every time I go to …

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Pouring Out God's Love Through Adoption

"The Lord uses his people to love on other people, and what a privilege that is that we get to be a part of what …

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A Legacy of Generosity

"For somebody to have something that they could have gone on a nice vacation or gotten something for themselves—but they thought of us—that will forever …

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Serving Others Flows from Gratitude

"I owe God so much. My passion is to serve him—wherever he wants me, in whatever place he puts me. And I'm grateful because he …

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Receiving Generosity with Grace

"God just kept sustaining me . . . One of the primary things that's happened in my heart is that I went from feeling very …

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Finding Hope in Christ During Dark Times

"I came to this realization that maybe the reason that nothing was working out was because I was trying to rely on myself and on …

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Experiencing Life Change Through Mentoring

"He was more of a mentor to me than I ever was to him because his faith was so strong. . . . It's so …

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Physical Healing and Spiritual Growth

"I have learned first and foremost to depend on God and to put everything in his hands, and I have learned a lot about the …

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Discipleship Through the Local Church

"I think the local church is essential because I don't think God ever intended on us doing this Christian life by ourselves. . . . …

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Embracing Discipleship Through Men's Roundtable

"What I have liked best about Men's Roundtable is it has given me a framework language, and it has given me a vehicle for discipleship. …

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God is Constant Through Trials

"It was a time when we were exposed and vulnerable, and we realized that the Lord is really the only constant here. Days come and …

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Restoring Trust in Marriage

"I don't know what God's doing, I know my story is not going to be wasted, I don't know what it's going to look like, …

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A Marriage Redeemed

"I have been so humbled by just being able to understand the Lord's graciousness towards me and his pursuit of me. Even when I didn't …

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Finding Authentic Faith

"It wasn't until right before I left for college that I, for the first time, recognized my sin and my need for Jesus in a …

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Anxiety Brings Dependence

"It was new for us to see what does it look like to really trust God with your job, with your finances. God started to …

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Overcoming Depression—Rescued by God

"It was the right people at the right time. . . . It was Ezer that I think God put up there to make me …

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Fasting and Prayer Brings Needed Renewal

"It definitely drew us closer to God, it drew us closer to something greater than ourselves, it helped us to step outside of ourselves and …

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The Art of Lifetime Discipleship

"Discipleship to me is walking along with another person to help them watch God make them into a godly person. . . . I have …

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Learning to Trust God with a Loved One

"I became pretty distraught, and that night I remember just crying out to God and just asking him to take care of her because I …

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Delighting in God During Difficult Times

“One day we were at school, and the next we weren’t. And just like that, it was gone. . . . I was putting all …

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Courage through Uncertain Times

"God challenges us, and a lot of times his challenges really strip us of reliance on ourselves or anything else for that matter. What stood …

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The Hope and Renewal of Easter

"What it boils down to is the relationship I have with God, not what other people think about him. Easter has much more weight and …

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The Strength of Singleness for Leadership

"One of the pastors brought up what I refer to as the energy chart, which ultimately challenges us to make sure we are expending our …

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Replacing Lies With Truth

"I realized I need truth more than I needed anything else. It began this process of devouring God's Word. Through that process, it taught me …

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A Rule Breaker Meets the Redeemer

"I rebelled in about every way that I could. My identity was in myself and what I could get out of life. My identity now …

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A Glorious Broken Vessel

"The hardest time of my life has also been the best time of my life—living in the community that has had to come around me …

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Grace en Español Five-Year Celebration | Thank You

"We came to visit Grace one time, and I always say that it was then that my spiritual life became active. Because I heard expository …

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God Preserves a Life through Addiction

"He used hard consequences and a lot of pain, but he did not let me go . . . . Looking back I can see …

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Spiritual Poverty in the Midst of Financial Wealth

"During a financial wealth of circumstances, you can still be impoverished. The emptiness and longing we were experiencing and then filling with things is really …

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Worship through Giving

"For me personally, the one thing I can say about generosity is that I have gained far more enjoyment from the things I have given …

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God's Word in Practice

"Am I going to be a doer of the word or just a hearer of the word? God has delivered me from the fears of …

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God's Tapestry Creates a Family

"Do you choose comfort and safety and security, or do you choose to enter into the brokenness and the mess? These kids are real and …

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Trusting God with our Future Family

"It is not possible for us to have children biologically, so we knew we were going to have to trust God to provide children . …

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Overcoming Alcohol Addiction

"Community opened me up . . . it turns out these people who are meeting are just like me in a lot of different ways. …

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Bending to the Authority of the Local Church

"When you are obedient to him, you're in line with his will. That is ultimately the best thing you can do is to be under …

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Walking with Others Through Pain

"For the first time in my life, I felt I could see God working in my life through people. I had put all those things …

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Finding True Treasure

"How can the Holy Spirit comfort you if you are never uncomfortable? I was always comfortable. I never experienced the power of God until I …

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Freedom and Hope through Confession in Community

"Sitting in a room and seeing people struggle and seeing us all come together and live life with each other was the first time in …

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Generosity and Provision

"I think that was the first time that I really believed God saw our situation. He knew who we were and what was going on …

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"Checking the Box" on Sundays

"If you are coming to church and just sitting, you aren’t experiencing everything that you could be . . . My eyes are more open …

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How to Start Being Generous

"I realized I was a consumer. . . We were spending thousands of dollars on IPTAY and season tickets and going to Clemson, and it’s …

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Healing After Tragedy and Loss

"I had put my faith in Christ when I was 6. God was all I had then, all I knew. When everything in my life …

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Overcoming Perfection

"When I start thinking, 'I am indestructible,' that is when the small sins that . . . don't seem like a big deal can then …

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Prayerful Dependence in the Loss of a Child

"I just kept going to God and saying, 'You love her so much more than we do and she is sick; she is really sick. …

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God Moves through the Mosaic Ministry

"A year ago, I truly didn’t believe in God and didn’t see [him] the way that I do now. . . . I feel like …

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Serving Jesus in a New Country

"The opportunity of coming from the back of the stage, where I played drums, to the front, leading the worship service, opened my eyes and …

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The Fear of God

"My little whiny answer of 'I don’t know if . . . I am going to do that because I am afraid.' What if it …

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Redemption in Biblical Community

"I had some shame built around my past. Things that had happened to me or things that I had done that I was really secretive. …

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Trusting God in Uncertain Health

"It was sort of in that space and in that period of waiting that God really brought me to the point of surrender. . . …

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Living a Dual Lifestyle

“You feel like you portray this one thing, and then, when you actually try and go out and live, you know, this other person shows …

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Understanding the Weight of Sin Leads to Salvation

“We didn’t want to change our lives and we didn’t, you know, want to give up this sin that we were in love with and …

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Sex Outside of Marriage

“In our minds it was just easier to live together . . . In the Bible it’s not black and white on every single situation …

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Obedience over Fear in Baptism

“I had lots of reservations. I didn’t have any reservations that related to my relationship with Christ; it was more appearance and putting the right …

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Consequences and Redemption after Adultery

“A lot of lives were thrown completely out of balance because of what I did, and that can’t be fixed now, and it’s something that …

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A New Perspective on Life and Heaven

“November 2012 our daughter, Darby O’Brien, suffered a brain hemorrhage while in class at Auburn University . . . We really believed God could heal …

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Turning from Religion to Jesus

“When I sinned I wouldn’t tell anybody; I would hide it, and I would try pretend like I was perfect. . . . Finally . …

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Biblically Oriented

“Something that God just really put on my heart is just examining my life and kind of looking at the things that are in it. …

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Finding Strength in God's Love

“God had to wreck my world multiple times before I finally would open my heart and allow Him to dwell there. . . . I …

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Seeing the Gospel through Grief and Loss

“For a long time I thought it just seemed natural that Tim should walk in, you know, and he doesn’t. . . . You’re just …

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No Fear in Death

“I was close to death. . . . I couldn’t fix my own leukemia, but He did. Since I’m powerless, the only solution I have …

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Forgiveness Leads to Repentance

"God talks about being a father to the fatherless, and he was a husband when mine was absent. . . . I wish I could …

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Recognizing Idolatry

“I got really quickly wrapped up in working for myself, building my own kingdom, wanting to be noticed by others. . . . It makes …

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Healthy Body Image through Changing Seasons

“My body grew as the baby grew, and I didn’t handle that very well. . . . My body is going to continue to change …

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Seeing God's Grace in the Loss of a Child

“Canaan taught me just truly to love my boy for who he is and not for the things that he was going to be able …

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Overcoming Anger through Community in the Local Church

“Anger was a part of my DNA. It’s not an excuse that—it’s just, I didn’t know anything else. . . . I’ve had some good …

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Submitting to and Thriving Under the Authority of Christ

“I think the best way to answer what my life looked like before being under the authority of the Scriptures is “heavy.” . . . …

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Trusting God through Life-Altering Illness

“The doctor came in, and the very first thing she said is, ‘So, we’re thinking leukemia.’ . . . I was in the hospital for …

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Self-Soothing as a Lifestyle

“A lot of times I feel like it’s better for me to be happy and in a good mood than for me to be healthy, …

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Fostering as a Single Woman

“I foster out of obedience—that God gave me these thoughts and gave me these desires and arranged my whole life to make it possible for …

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Life After Divorce

“My marriage was great. . . . There was a knock on the door one day, and at that point . . . everything . …

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Not Graduating College

“I did go to college . . . ’til the middle of my junior year. . . . Some have said, ‘Why didn’t you go …

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Dealing with Postpartum Depression

“I had so many people telling me, ‘Isn’t this just the best season of your life?’ And when I couldn’t say, ‘Yes,’ it devastated me. …

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The False Hope of the American Dream

“We were pursuing the wrong things. We were pursuing everything but God, and when we finally hit the bottom, we realized how far off we …

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Overcoming Inadequacy

“When I hear the phrase, ‘I am not,’ I think, ‘I am not able, but God is able.’ I see the value in pursuing him …

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Infertility—Releasing Control to God

"Satan really wants us to pull in and not reach out to people and to live in our heads and not share with people, and …