Somewhere along the way, the American dream became less about the white picket fence and a middle class job. Instead of aspiring to a life with all of your choices made easier for you, we instead hope for the ability to make MORE choices.

The beauty of abundant higher education is that you can choose [...]

So many times God has taught me things by using me to teach them to others. Have you ever found yourself giving someone advice that you didn’t actually know before it came out of your mouth?

I found myself talking about struggling through prayer with God. How Abraham literally fought with God over the destruction [...]

As of about 5:10 this afternoon, I am officially Covidien/Valleylab‘s newest summer intern.

What does that mean? Basically I get to move to Boulder, Colorado for the summer and work for a medical research company on electrosurgical devices. Kinda crazy, huh??

I’m more than excited. Ok, I’m not going to lie, being able [...]

I’m finally finishing one of the posts I started a few weeks ago…

I fall down, over and over, and I get good at being so angry with myself for falling into the same hole that I almost begin to think that it’s MY HOLE, why shouldn’t I fall into it? At least it’s not [...]

Christians love practical.

Applicable, implementable, helpful, useful, unpacked, broken down, explained.

So what do we do when God isn’t…practical?

Be convicted by your humanity every day enough to change, apply principles to your life and find out how that makes the most sense to you. But understand that God never wanted to be practical. It’s [...]

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This paragraph [...]

I wish I could take credit for this, but I can’t — it just kind of inspired me a lot. Try to read it one sentence at a time, think about it, apply it to where you are, and don’t you dare read it like it’s a forwarded email that you skip over and say [...]

I know a lot of people who are working hard to become famous.

Or rich, or beautiful, or successful, or whatever.

The reality of it is, the reason I woke up this morning was NOT to further my personal life ambition. I exist today to worship God and make the name of Jesus famous.

Period.

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I just got back from a really awesome long weekend visiting Josh in Boulder. Random thoughts anyone? Ok, you talked me into it. In no particular order:

* Reliable and abundant public transportation, while as of yet almost entirely unable to sustain itself without government assistance, is a glorious and not-wide-enough-spread thing.

* People [...]

I’ve gotten a lot of interesting perspectives on marriage recently — some good, some really really sad. So here it goes, my list of the best advice I’ve been given on marriage.

* Love doesn’t fix everything.

My marriage is going to be the greatest love affair of my life. If it is supposed to [...]