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18 09, 2016

A Conversation with Nick and Nathan
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A Conversation with Nick and Nathan

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A Conversation with Nick and Nathan

St. Luke's Author Author2017-03-28T14:56:18-05:00September 18th, 2016|All blogs, We Tell Our Stories|0 Comments

by: Tyler Neely While I had grown up saying I was a Christian, I never actually knew Jesus or recognized that he was someone who I could have a relationship with until my senior year of high school. The first time that I learned who Jesus was, and heard that he was more than some archaic religious icon that my grandparents made me learn about, was when two of my best friends, Nick and Nathan, sat me down one night and shared their experience and faith with me. Young Life had just recently started at my school and [...]

15 05, 2016

Suffering for Christ’s Sake: Inside-Out Habits with Dr. Tom Pace for May 15, 2016

Robert Elliott2017-03-28T14:57:25-05:00May 15th, 2016|All blogs, Inside-Out with Dr. Tom Pace|0 Comments

We pray. We study the Bible. We make friends. We tell our stories. We give ourselves away in generosity and service. WE PRAY: A PERSONAL PRAYER Come, Holy Spirit! God–Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – I long for you to come and fill me, fill your whole church, with your power. I read how on the day of Pentecost, your Holy Spirit fell upon those ordinary people, and they were transformed. They spoke in other tongues, that people of every race and tribe might know your love. They worked miracles that could not be accomplished by their own [...]

1 05, 2016

Heart Transformations: Inside-Out Habits with Dr. Tom Pace for May 1, 2016

Robert Elliott2017-03-28T14:57:30-05:00May 1st, 2016|All blogs, Inside-Out with Dr. Tom Pace|0 Comments

We pray. We study the Bible. We make friends. We tell our stories. We give ourselves away in generosity and service. WE PRAY: A PERSONAL PRAYER Dear God, You know that I want to be successful, not so much in terms of money or prestige or power, but I want to make a difference in the world. I want to reach my potential, to be used by you to do something that matters. And yet, you call me not so much to be successful, but to be faithful. You call me not so much to do what is effective, [...]

17 04, 2016

All the Good, All the Bad
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All the Good, All the Bad

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All the Good, All the Bad

Robert Elliott2017-03-28T14:57:37-05:00April 17th, 2016|All blogs, We Tell Our Stories|0 Comments

by Andrew Howard, Class of 2018 I was waiting for my prayers to be answered. I was praying for a sign from God to help me really know that, without a doubt, he was real. And that day came during Fall Retreat when God shot me with all the truth of all the ways that he had been in my life. Maybe he made me to talk to people who really need his grace and forgiveness. I run track—barefoot, and when asked why, I say that God created us naked and that is our best form. Everyone has God [...]

10 04, 2016

He Restores My Soul

Robert Elliott2017-03-28T14:57:40-05:00April 10th, 2016|All blogs, We Tell Our Stories|0 Comments

by Reverend Bill Denham Every hospital visit is unique. Different rooms, patients, medical issues, outcomes. One of the things that some special lay men and women do is volunteer to visit hospitalized persons in the Medical Center. These volunteers enter the hospital room knowing that they represent not only St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, but also the healing hands and voice of Jesus the Christ. Before entering a hospital room the volunteer washes his/her hands and, more often than not, offers up a silent prayer, asking God to be with them in this visit. These men and women [...]

13 03, 2016

Amazing Grace: Inside-Out Habits with Dr. Tom Pace for March 13, 2016

Robert Elliott2017-03-28T14:57:52-05:00March 13th, 2016|All blogs, Inside-Out with Dr. Tom Pace|0 Comments

We pray. We study the Bible. We make friends. We tell our stories. We give ourselves away in generosity and service. WE PRAY: A PERSONAL PRAYER God, I’m coming clean. Like the tax collector in the temple, I beat my breast and say “Lord, have mercy on me a sinner.” Oddly, one of my sins is that I am like the Pharisee in the temple, who says “thank God I am not like these other people…sinners.” Ok, I don’t actually use those words, but you know my attitude. Self-righteous. Better than the guy next to me. God, I can’t brush it under [...]

15 11, 2015

Deep Breaths: Inside-Out Habits with Dr. Tom Pace for November 15, 2015

Robert Elliott2017-03-28T14:58:19-05:00November 15th, 2015|All blogs, Inside-Out with Dr. Tom Pace|0 Comments

We pray. We study the Bible. We make friends. We tell our stories. We give ourselves away in generosity and service. A PERSONAL PRAYER God of all times, There are days I hear that voice in my head that I am absolutely sure is not you. It is a voice that comes from a dark place in my heart, a place where there is pain. It is a voice that judges someone else, a voice of self-righteousness, a voice that nurses ill-will and my own self as a victim. I unwillingly rehearse the words in my mind over and over… “He has [...]