Monday / October 31, 2011
As I sit at the end of the day, I read the latest headlines of the news. Students are left without education, having to work instead of study; riots spread throughout the world in protest against financial services markets; people are arrested as they occupy Wall Street; the Middle East fights to what seems no end.
Something is happening in our world. Not just our home town. Not just in our country, but in the whole …
Thursday / October 27, 2011
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See AllA number of IMPACT 360 alumni and other former students came to mind when I read this snippet from C.S. Lewis today: “But I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can …
Sunday / October 23, 2011
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See AllHere at IMPACT 360, life is constantly changing. During my time here as a student, I have discovered there is no normalcy to what we do here. Every week our schedule is different but that only makes it more exciting. This past week was our first week being back from Fall Break. Everyone returned to campus well rested and with a renewed vigor for life here at IMPACT 360. Over our break we read Engaging …
Tuesday / October 18, 2011
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See AllKnow. Be. Live. These three words changed the course of my future. In high school, I aspired to be a business owner…or an English instructor…or simply to find a husband in college, get married quickly, and skip out on a career. However, there was an issue in my desire to attempt higher education: I had an apathy for acquiring knowledge. I wanted to grow and learn and be refined, but I was not so willing …
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Life is actually Lord of the Rings. Or so says Dr. Moreland. The journey we all are on is one of human flourishing. It’s an adventure, a process, one that continues as long as we live. It’s a continual, day-by-day journey in becoming intimate with God and understanding what He wants for us. It’s an adventure! One of proclamation of the Gospel, and spreading the message. Wherever we go, however we go, it’s all about …
Monday / October 3, 2011
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The IMPACT 360 family just got home from a five day trip that we like to call the adventure module. This adventure module contains a lot of different activities consisting of carrying backpacks as big as you are, sleeping in tents, going to the restroom in the woods, cooking your own food out in nature, hiking intense trails, and washing lovely dishes in creeks! At the end of this five day period we had blisters, …
Sunday / October 2, 2011
I make an effort each day to read God’s word, as well as to read someone else’s words who know more about God’s word than I. Usually, that means I’m reading Oswald Chambers. This week, he gave me an encouraging word about life in the valley. His focus is on Mark chapter 9, the event is called the Transfiguration. Jesus goes up on a mountain with Peter and John, and they see him become a …
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