The New Free ThinkersEarthly relationships have a strong foundation in trust. In a relationship, trust is the emotion that allows us to believe the word of a person. Trust is the voice in our heads that tells us that it’s okay to open up our hearts to a person, that they won’t deliberately hurt us. However, there is [...]
Did you do the same thing as me when you were little and making promises to your friends? You stuck your pinkie finger out there and said two of the heaviest words you could think of. “Pinky Promise?” Whether or not you realized the weight of those words, something inside you clicked with them. You [...]
Sitting in a plane gives you a tremendous amount of time to think. Time is an endless option before you. You see, I found that being in the air for 5 or 6 hours lets your mind roam free. You can look out the window, down the aisle, at the sleeping passengers beside you, at [...]
Tick-tock. The hands on the clock seemed paralyzed. No sleep on a Wednesday night equals falling asleep in a three hour Thursday chemistry lab. Density is the ratio of—wow it’s only been five minutes? Really? I let my mind wander during the lecture on dimensional analysis. The first week of my freshman year of college [...]
“Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.” — Psalm 62:8 There is a place where you are always welcome. In that place you are completely safe. There you continually feel loved, no matter who walks into or out of your life. Even [...]
It’s twelve forty-five in the morning. I lay in a sleeping bag on my living room floor, awake. Though I have every reason to be comatose, I can’t close my eyes. It’s prayer time. I roll over onto my stomach, and start to seek the Lord, trying not to wake my friend on the couch, [...]
On a recent Saturday night, I was in a prayer meeting with young men from my local youth group. After praying for a while, we took a few moments to discuss what we were all feeling. We unanimously agreed that we were felt God wanted us to commit ourselves, our dreams, and our desires to [...]
This guest article comes to us from Dennis Bousquet, Jr., as part of our “Month of Guest Articles” for September 2009. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” — John 14:27 [...]
Imagine yourself sitting down in a fancy restaurant. You look over the menu and a “chocolate fudge cake” catches your eye. You wait and wait, and the waitress finally walks over after her forty-five minute break from you. She acts as though no one has noticed her absence and calmly says “ok, what do you [...]
Picking the road to use for my commute is usually the first thing I think about after buckling the seat belt. There’s the straight road through a small but busy town, the winding back road that has almost no traffic, and a multitude of side roads to vary the routine. The catch is that I’ve [...]