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What It Looks Like to Grieve and Have Hope

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Grief has remained consistent in my life over the last few years. In 2021, my husband and I miscarried our first baby, Haven; in 2022, we miscarried our second baby, Evie. In the time since, I’ve been figuring out how to look at grief as a Christian.
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How God Restored a Strained Friendship

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R and I are the same age, and we were often classmates in primary and secondary school. When I first started going to church, we were in the same Bible Study group. We were even baptised on the same day. She was, it seemed, the perfect “church girl”. A talented singer with a vivacious personality. By contrast, I struggled to fit in despite my best attempts.
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How God Rewrote My Love Formula

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I started my search for love at 21. I used to dream about the ideal guy—Christian, older, tall, handsome, a true gentleman. I wanted to create a “formula” for love, beginning with a checklist. Although I’d always been told to trust God for a partner, having a checklist felt like I was at least doing something on my part. 
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3 Common Lies About the Wilderness Season

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We often unknowingly enter the wilderness season. Everything's all fine and good, until things stop working out the way you had hoped for. It’s a confusing and disorienting place to be. 
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I Don’t Feel Close to God. Is It Me?

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One time, my friend asked what had become our custom practice at the end of our calls: “What’s one intimate prayer request I can pray for?” It was probably telling that I didn’t know what to say.
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I’m A Christian, But… I’m Bored of the Gospel

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Remember the first time you really heard the gospel and were so moved? The emotions, the tearful confession, the heartfelt prayer… These days, you hear “Jesus died on the cross” and your brain goes, Yeah, yeah, I know.  😬 What’s happened to us?
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Is Being Chosen and Loved by God Really Enough?

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One reminder that’s often brought up as comfort for single people is that God loves us, and that we have a relationship with Him. But knowing that did not always make me feel chosen or special, because I thought, “Well God loves everyone because He is God!”
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

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When you’re experiencing some kind of resistance or setback in your life, this question takes on that tension—to quit or to endure. But you may also be in a place of relative comfort, and still, you could be asking, should I stay, or should I move on to something different?
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Being a Christian Is Like Being a Foreigner

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I immigrated to Australia when I was a child. Perhaps it was because I was still very young, I quickly adapted to the way things were there. Recently, I returned to Hong Kong where I was born. That feeling of being a foreigner hit me hard.