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If you have recently chosen to give your life to Jesus and begin following him, welcome to God’s family! 

Examen has drawn me more deeply into knowing God and myself. Through it, God has increased my gratitude and contentment while decreasing my anxiety and tendency to struggle with hope. It has also deepened my relationships with others.

A common enemy rears its ugly head in many people’s lives come spring.

For many of us, great ��ñ���� staff workers are sometimes the closest thing we have to what we might consider modern-day saints. So as a very new follower of Jesus at 20 years of age, I had to work up a lot of courage to tell my staff worker about a secret sin that had been suffocating me ever since I realized how wrong it was.

The sacrament of Communion seems a bit odd from our modern eyes. 

I recently hit a major wall in my relationship with God. 

Can we be sad and still worship God? What about angry? Confused? 

Throughout the past 25 years, God has placed me in four distinct churches that have differed in denomination, race, socioeconomic makeup, and language. In these different communities, God has grown my understanding of him and his mission and equipped me to better serve him among diverse people.

Nobody likes to sit in a waiting room. 

“The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up,” explains Peeta in the third book of the popular Hunger Games series. 

He has been tainted by the enemy, his mind twisted and turned.

Exactly like an eating disorder, I thought as I read the book.

Eating disorders are so dark, twisted, and confusing that those who have one believe that what they think in their head is actually reality.