At my church I am taking a spiritual gifts class from Impact University. Throughout the course, we have learned the definitions and characteristics of each of the seven gifts. Below I will share a basic definition of each and explain a few of their characteristics. Prophecy The gift of prophecy is probably one […]
What Faith can Do
This post is based the song by Kutless called What Faith can Do. This song describes the amazing things faith can do and what to do when you fall. The main verse of the song is,” I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains, hope that doesn’t ever end even when the sky is falling…” . This describes […]
The Gift of Prophesy
I am taking a spiritual gifts class at my church and have discovered my primary gift is prophesy. I would say that the gift of prophesy is one of the rarest and most disliked of the seven gifts, which are leadership/administration, mercy, exhortation, giving, service, teaching, and prophesy. This gift is mainly disliked because of […]
The Definition of Success
For a home school language project, I asked on Facebook for people’s definition of success in one sentence, and received a variety of answers. I am going to compare a few of them with two definitions of success from the Bible, which say; “He (God) has told you men what is good and what it is the […]
Do Hard Things
I have read Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris, twin brothers (like Don and I) who started an amazing website called The Rebelution. This book has changed my life, and I have read it and it’s sequel, called Start Here three times each. Do Hard Things is what inspired me to start this blog and […]
Live With Abandon
Today I decided to listen to some Newsboys songs because I hadn’t in a while, and one that I listened to was Live With Abandon. The song expresses wanting to live with all that you have, not wasting a single breath. This should be a goal for all of us. Living with all you are for Jesus […]
Coming Back to Christmas
This Christmas season, I have been reminded of the true reason we celebrate Christmas. God has brought my family back to what Christmas is all about through a series of events. Two of my aunts are sick and in the hospital. Because my aunt is sick, my mom drove to Atlanta to help her husband and […]
Homeschooling
I’m homeschooling for my first year after being in public school all my life, and I enjoy having the freedom to complete my classes whenever I want, and being able to choose for the first time what I want to do with my life. For example, right now I am writing this blog with my […]
God’s Authority
I was reading in one of my devotionals, and I came across Matthew 9:9b, which says; “He said to him,’ Follow me!,’ so he got up and followed him.” It struck me that Matthew was just sitting in his office working, and heard some guy he had never seen before say,” Follow me,” and he […]
Born to be Wild
Yesterday, my dad, brother, and I went on an eight mile canoeing trip down the Flat Rock River. Our first discovery is that it is very difficult to row a canoe in shallow water. We went on a day with a low water level and faced many shallow rapids and shelves of flat rock […]