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Laborers in the Vineyard

Read this chapter from the Bible below, then check out this article, randomly read both of these on the same day. haha. Christianity is crazy, and now we know how the world would react to it. Well, we already knew, this just proves it. A CEO raised his company’s minimum wage to $70,000 a year,…
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Why I’m a fan of Short Term Missions

In my time at Cornell, I have been on a missions trip with Cru to Panama City Beach, FL, three times, Guatemala City, Guatemala, one time, and East Asia, one time. Each trip, whether I was a participant or a leader, has helped to facilitate both my spiritual growth and also those of other people…
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Did Jesus send people on Short Term Missions?

I currently work for Cru, which does have a lot of short term missions trips. There’s some thought on these trips that I will probably address later on in different blogs, but I just wanted to share something I thought was interesting in my reading. One thing everyone has to ask about short term missions…
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Let’s Wash Some Feet!

If you have the chance, I would love to encourage you to read John Ch 13. In this chapter, Jesus is gathered together with his disciples the night before the Passover Feast, where he shares his last meal with them. On our NYC trip, I shared this passage with the students and shared three applications…
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It’s Not About Me, It’s All About God!

This past Spring Break, I had the opportunity to lead a group of 24 students to NYC for a Missions Trip. I have a hard time calling it a missions trip. If anything, I really see it as a learning experience and vision trip for the students and our ministry. We partnered with Hope Church…
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Take heart, I have overcome the world

I have been meditating on this scripture for a while and have found it very encouraging to both my own soul and hopefully to yours as well. In chapter 16 of the book of John, Jesus is having the last supper with his disciples in which he tells them how he will be leaving soon.…
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Sure Thing

As a Christian, all of our life is based upon faith. We trust in the fact that God is there and what He said is true. We can feel insecure at times about our salvation maybe because we are messing up in our walk with Jesus or we are just feeling spiritually depressed. But our…
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Food for the Inner Man

by George Mueller (1805-1898) While I was staying at Nailsworth, it pleased the Lord to teach me a truth, irrespective of human instrumentality, as far as I know, the benefit of which I have not lost, though now…more than forty years have since passed away. The point is this: I saw more clearly than ever,…
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Suit and Tie and Marvin Gaye

I’m a big fan of diffeent types of music, but there’s something magical that happens when someone finds a way to combine two songs beautifully. Justin Timberlake has grown tremendously as an artist and doing really well for himself. I am definitely a fan of his song “Suit and Tie” that came out last year.…
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