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The Past Does Affect the Present

No matter what the challenge is, it is the small day to day choices which over time become a habit that will often dictate if the goal is achieved. It is easy to see how a friend or co-worker can sabotage their lives by…
Devotional: Exodus 1-25

By Karl Johnson at A Radical Journey Your past does not define you. There are so many times when we look at others or ourselves, and all we see is the past, and usually not the positives. Past failures. Past pain. Past r…
That Was My Life

Music was a huge part of my life, and still is. However, I don't do the things I used to do. I'm also grateful that I chose not to continue living the way I was living. I used to DJ at night clubs, parties and weddings.…
Lessons Learned from Past Transgressions

There are events from my early teenage years that still haunt me to this day -- wounding memories that bring to mind aspects of myself that are painful to even contemplate, but I must so that those seeds that led to the…
Revisiting the Spiritual Desert

By Amy at Make Me a Mary It's a dry, thirsty land full of danger and way more valleys than mountaintops. It's a hopeless place of entrapment, and when I was there I thought I'd never get out. At times I fear I'll end up…
Grace: Lamenting my Past

By Amy at Make Me a Mary I loathe it, I will always loathe it, and seems at times I'll never find peace for all this loathing of it. I never, ever wanted my past to look the way it does. A little girl doesn't grow up ex…
Anything Anonymous: Letting Go of the Past by Sharing It with Strangers

Today I had a choice to make. A fairly insignificant one in the big scheme of things. I could go listen to a seminar given by two of my closest guy friends about literature, bread and all sorts of wonderful things that m…
The Benefits of Christian Fellowship

By Roderick Evans From the beginning, we see that God’s purpose for man never included perpetual solitude and isolation. When we consider the events of the garden of Eden, we see that God saw that it was not go…
How Honest is Too Honest?

By Sharon at SheWorships Earlier this week I had a fascinating conversation with some friends about how much honesty is helpful in a dating or marriage relationship. For instance, how much should a dating couple share ab…
I Don't Belong: Stuck Between my Sinful Past and Faithful Future

After being on a strong Christian path in college, questioning my faith, losing my faith and becoming a recovering non-believer back into Christianity, I have found this to be an incredibly difficult struggle. In all reg…