In recent weeks at IBC, we’ve been discussing the importance of wrestling with our own personal past—our life story—to better understand our present and God’s intentions for our future. This is a vitally important part of our ongoing spiritual growth and development. God has made us who we are through the formative experiences and relationships of our lives: though our heritage, our heroes, our high points, and our hard times.
Read MoreThere is something unifying about death — it is the one enemy we all share. It’s final and irreversible. It’s universal: everybody dies.
Easter Sunday is like that happy dance you bust into when you find the egg filled with chocolate, jelly beans, AND that $5 bill—except, well, it’s a much bigger reason for celebration.
I’m not a spiritual giant; I’m only saying what anyone would say. If anyone had been through what I have been through and had been changed like I have, they would absolutely say, ‘I would do it again.’
I had become a pretty good liar. More on that in a minute. See, I had just come back to Christianity from a three-year hiatus after my dad died when I was 13.
I like life hacks — those lists of clever ways to get around life’s little annoyances. You see them in your news feed or in the nifty two-minute packages at the end of your favorite newscast.
For people in their Young Adults in DFW, it’s normal to be a Christian. In fact, for many, it’s normal for faith and spirituality to be an incredibly important part of their lives. Thing is, it’s not normal to talk about it.