Young Adults
November 25, 2019
Concordia Publishing House
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Four Rs of an Ordinary Life
This post is adapted from Callings for Life: God’s Plan, Your Purpose written by Jeffrey Leininger.
Navigating the Darkness
A pitch-black street familiar to me is illuminated by streetlights and the warm glow of headlights from early-riser commuters. I live alongside one of the major highways that serves as...
Directions for Snow Days
The wintertime gets a great deal of hate because of the cold weather, the nasty storms, the lack of sunlight, and what seems an overly long length. One thing most people do enjoy is the...
Our Callings through God’s Plan for Us
As a college senior, I feel an incredible amount of pressure to have my life figured out and to be living out what I was born to do. This is most likely the case for any college student...
Advent: The Hope Factory
It was during Advent when I witnessed my first infant Baptism. The season of Advent has powerful imagery for me in the Christian faith I share with so many of my brothers and sisters...
2:04Product Overview of The Messengers | Christian Young Adult Novels
A boy living in an oppressive government. A surprise guest in the middle of the night. Darkness. The Light of Christ. Become invested in the Messengers Trilogy. Start book one: https://www.cph.org/p
Epic Fails Are Normal
When was the last time you failed at something? Did you truly fail or just stop trying? In my work, I ask students to recall failure as part of our now-common virtual interactions....
An Advent Shift to Social Media
In the last scroll through your social media—Facebook and Twitter especially—did you feel happy? Were there an abundance of posts that made you laugh, smile, and feel giddy inside? I...
The (Hidden) Blessing of Quarantine
I am what my friends have deemed an ambivert: a perfect 50/50 split between an introvert and an extrovert. This was confirmed with a personality test, as my friends became obsessed with...
Challenging More: You Don't Know Everything (and That's Okay)
The idea that each individual person has to know everything can set some on edge. How are you meant to know everything in the short lifespan that you have? In his new book, Meant for...
When You Get What You Prayed For
In college, I used to (only semi-jokingly) ask God to send me a tall, blonde, Jesus-loving, soccer-playing, European boyfriend. A few weeks ago, I married a tall, blonde pastor who...
A Sea of Broken Dreams
“I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.” Isaiah 65:19 As I look at the landscape in our...
Social Media: Walk as Children of Light
The internet has always had its dark side: email money transfer and gift card scams, identity theft, catfishing, fake job offers, stalkers, social media bullying, and more. During this...
How to Memorize Scripture (and Why It’s Important)
If you grew up going to Sunday School or confirmation classes, I can almost guarantee that you had to memorize Bible verses. It likely went something like this: You remember you have a...
How to Be a Good (Adult) Child to Your Parents
As a child and teenager, I was always reminded of the Fourth Commandment: Honor your father and your mother. Obviously, I should have been doing that anyway … but I was too busy...
What is God Calling You to Do?
Life wakes up slowly—one-eye-at-a-time, rollover, and pull the covers back up over your head slowly—on a Sunday morning in a college town. Life wakes up very slowly on a summer Sunday...
How to Build Virtual Community
As some states are beginning to open back up, many states are still either under stay-at-home orders, require reduced capacity for public gatherings, or mandate social distancing...
How Being Creative Makes Us Appreciate God
During quarantine, a lot of people I know have been taking up creative hobbies. I’ve seen tons of Instagram posts of people sharing their sourdough bread recipes, knitting projects, and...
Racial Healing Begins with Recognizing Our Neighbor
I ran across a fantastic quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’...
The Nation's Cry for Peace and Justice
This article appeared on The Light Breaks Through and has been published here with permission. As you try to process all that is going on in our country, here are some thoughts. Do not...