Be Who You Are: Sharing God’s Heart
Truthfully, every person created possesses a unique part of God’s heart that He wants the world to see, so trying to be like someone else is denying the world part of God’s heart.
When Being Christian Stops Being Cool
I soon learned that people that weren’t at youth group weren’t coming because they didn’t want to be there — they weren’t there because they didn’t think youth group was “cool.”
7 Truths You Need to Know Right Now
You are desired, you are chosen, you are loved by God.
Find Your Calcutta
If you can build a house in Mexico, you surely can clean your house and help your parents. Yeah, I know. The truth can be sassy sometimes.
Steubenvilles, Social Media, and Blessings: Summer Reflections from a Life Teen Apprentice
I’d like to believe that even when my praises for God feel dried up or His blessings for me feel finished, that I’ll remember the truth about who He is. I’d like to tell myself I’ll always see God’s goodness in even the most difficult of situations. But I’m human and stumble more than I’d like, failing to recognize such things.
Offer it up: Letting God Redeem Your Pain
As Catholics, we believe that Christ invites us to unite our suffering with His Passion and that, when we do this, our suffering takes on redemptive power.
Why “Maybe” Could be Hurting Your Relationship with God
You weren’t made for “maybe.” God wants all of you – Jesus asks us to jump in with both feet.
I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me
We have become so absorbed with ourselves and our image that we forget about the other person right next to us.
When the Saints Seem too Cool for You
The saints lived incredible, heroic, nearly unbelievable moments because their love for God was just as radical in those moments as it was in the most un-incredible moments of their lives.