A Love That Can’t be Earned
I knew God loved me, but I didn’t feel it after I messed up. The conviction I felt convinced me that God did not love me as much as He did before, and that I could never earn that same love back.
The Heart of God Behind Bars
I thought of the women, and as I did, words started to rise to my mind: Prisoner. Inmate. Convict. Suddenly, my problem became so clear. I was letting their status define them.
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.
