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- Betrayed
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- I often thought to myself, "What now? What do I do now? She made my life so enjoyable. Now what am I supposed to do?"
- Peacemaker
- Every relationship goes through conflict. Instead of lashing out or bailing out, I'm now finding the secret to resolving conflict. . .
- Life Change
- How God is bringing change to the emptiness and futility of my life
- Sunset Chasing
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- How God showed me His love during a stressful summer.
- When God Writes Your Love Story
- So many nights I would just cry myself to sleep, wondering what was wrong with me and why I didn't have that special someone in my life.
- Finding God through Friends
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- I began to get involved with two distinct crowds. I had my rugby team, whose motto is: "Our drinking club has a rugby problem", and then there was the church.
- Away to School
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- I went off to college soaring like a bird without direction.
- From Agnostic to Christian
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- I learned something new to me: Christianity was about "having a relationship with God". I had never heard anything like that before. Before I thought Christianity was about being on your best behavior.
- Approval
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- Even though I brag about being independent, I am seriously dependent on approval
- Approved
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- How I struggled to find acceptance in the wrong places
- Empty Inside
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- I started to realize that my friends were fake - they were my friends because I was popular.
- Finding Real Friends
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- Apparently I put on a good enough show for people to like me and think I was fun, but I was always so guarded that people assumed I didn't want to get to know them
- Breaking Up
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- More than empty tradition, God wanted me to be really connected with him on a personal level.
- Masks
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- I actually saw someone who wasn't wearing any mask and didn't expect anyone to wear one for him.
- Physical Grace
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- I found forgiveness, freedom and fulfillment after a long relationship focused on sex.
- Worlds Apart
- Because I can have security in God, I can be okay when other people let me down, because I know He never will
- Real Life from the Sugar Creek Gang
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- My life was made up of serveral major achievements with no meaning once I got there. What was the point to life?
- Anorexia
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- The happy energetic person we knew and loved was now replaced by someone that would hardly talk to you.
- Greater than Pleasure
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- It was then that I knew that there was more out there for me, that there was something greater than my instantaneous pleasure. . .
- Love Unlimited for Me Unworthy
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- I remember praying every night before falling asleep, "God, help me to not care about what others think about me and to care more about what you think about me."
- Missing My Dad
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- My father died the summer after I graduated from High School. I struggled with knowing the acceptance, encouragement and provision that I had from him was now gone.
- Empty Inside
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- From Outsider to Mega-Insider: How God found me and met me in my deep lonliness.
- Who's in the Center?
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- What God taught me through my struggles with the party scene and "normal college dating relationships."
- Filling the Void
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- Something inside of me sensed that there was only one thing that could fulfill me - one thing to fit the hole in my life, but I tried to fill it with anything.
- Wanting Love
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- I was desperately searching for a soulmate; someone who I could invest all my energy into or perhaps, spend the rest of my life with.
- Too Physical
- I did not want the physical part of my relationship to ruin the rest of my life.
- Talking with Harvey
- I was only there for no more than a few minutes when a man named Harvey walked around the corner carrying a Bible. He asked “Is everything all right?” Tears swelled up in my eyes as I simply answered, "No."
- Battling Lust
- How God broke in and changed my repeated patterns of lust, pornography and pursuing women as objects.
- Keeping It Secret
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- The problem was this - I was dating a lovely young lady whose parents didn't approve of interracial relationships. We kept our relationship a secret. . .
- Search for Significance
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- Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be at the top of all that I did. I wanted to end life with the most money and the most toys.
- Fence Walking
- Growing up, I felt torn between trying to please my friends and trying to do what I knew God wanted me to do.
- Tapestry
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- tried everything from alcohol and staying up all hours of the night pursuing relationships...and nothing/nobody was meeting my deepest need
- My Illusion Leads to Girl Confusion
- How God has changed my view of women and dating relationships
- Out of My Comfort Zone
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- Going away to college was a big adjustment in learning where to find security.
- Coming Home
- Sometimes God allows us to fall flat on our faces to see that we need Him to pick us up!
- The Chair
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- Everything I did seemed to end in tragedy. Nothing I did was good enough for my family or for my friends at school.
- Finding Purpose
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- "Being a Good Person" didn't bring me fulfillment. And where could I find true salvation?
- I Broke My Neck
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- I felt like a failure and betrayed by everyone, including God.
- I Will Never Let You Go
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- : "You are a sinner, Laura Elizabeth. Those sins are yours, they flow out of your sinful nature and flesh, and you can only blame them on yourself. Your salvation was a work that was completely Mine--I humbled myself to come into the world and live as a man, I lived a perfect life and succeeded in all the places you failed, and I was hung on a cross and received all the wrath of God that your sin deserves. I saved you. And I will never let you go."
- What's Love Got to Do With It?
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- This day in age, the topic of dating and relationships is hot, but what's love really got to do with it---what are we really searching for when we long for the perfect man/woman to marry? Many times we forget that God is the source of our love, for ourselves and for others, therefore we must recognize His great love for us, first, in order to understand our love for others which shall be a reflection of Him.
- Southern Born Identity
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- My Quest for Identity
