Posts from April 2020
Identity in Christ (Trevor Polston)
Finding your identity in Christ can be complicated or not, if you’re lucky. For me it was an emotional roller coaster with awkward turns and dips! Coming to Christ felt like I was really in the twilight zone. God totally flipped my world upside down. For the first time in my life, I was surrounded by white people, and I had no idea why they were being so nice to me! In this short blog post, I am going to…
Relinquishing Control (Sydney Hawthorne)
Growing up, I have always had a hard time dealing with the changes that happened throughout my life, and I have always chalked it up to me being the oldest sibling and my parents’ divorce. I had to “grow up” at a very young age, and although I did it, it did not sit well with my issues of change. It took a long time for me to adjust to my parent’s not being together, marrying other people, and having…
Five Unique Opportunities the COVID-19 Pandemic Gives Us
We are living in some strange times. On-campus classes have been canceled for the remainder of the semester. Gathering sizes are limited. Restaurants are closed. Churches aren’t meeting. There’s nation-wide economic uncertainty. People are sick and dying. Most of us are self-quarantined in our homes, with little person-to-person contact. COVID-19 has turned our lives upside down. Without a doubt, there is a lot of suffering, fear, and anxiety in our culture right now. And for that we lament, morn, comfort,…