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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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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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How I Came to Like the Way God Made Me

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It was in intermediate school when I discovered that I was “weird”.  According to this group of “cool” girls in my class, I was strange. Odd. Intense. Weird. And rather than this remaining merely their opinion, I considered their words authoritative on who I was.
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5 Ways to Keep Ourselves Rooted in God’s Word

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There are many things that make it challenging for us to read God’s Word. Often we think it’s because we don’t have time, but perhaps the more accurate reason is we often feel too tired.
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Does God Care About What I Want?

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I was trying to stomach a failure—yet another rejection in my writing career—and as I sat with my husband, I shared how God’s key message to me seemed to be this idea of making “no graven image” (Exodus 20:4). Meaning, I had to be careful to not remake God as “the God of my desires”.
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I Was a “Good Christian Girl”, But I Felt Like a Fake

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Growing up as a second-generation Christian, I was the epitome of a Good Christian Girl (GCG). I mastered the GCG ritual at a tender age of eight, practising it religiously until it became routine. Read the Bible, pray every day, attend church every Sunday, ace the weekly memory verse—check, check, check.
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It’s Time to Take the Guilt Out of Your Bible Reading

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You start off the new year with a plan to follow–to finish the whole Bible in one year. But by the time the third week of January rolls around, you’re three days behind, equivalent to 12 to 15 chapters to catch up on. The doubt about actually doing this creeps in. The guilt of not doing what you said you’d do piles up. 
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Trusting God When Things Are Falling Apart

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There was a challenging season of my life when I felt like everything was not going well. I was led on by someone whom I thought was a potential life partner, and the cultural pressures to get married made me anxious. On top of that, my PhD proposals had been rejected multiple times.
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Learning to Pray Like a Child

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When I was young, I only thought of God as a genie who granted wishes. After learning that prayer is seeking God’s kingdom and righteousness, however, I started to feel like I couldn’t really tell God what was on my heart.