Author: Grace Ann Oglesby

Love Will Win

In the world today, truth is being denied and suppressed. To mainstream culture, there is no such thing as absolute truth. Those who claim such truth are deemed judgmental and unkind. Because of this, many believers are suffering for their faith all over the world. The current cultural climate is

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Hope: A Catalyst for Renewal

It is easy to listen to the world’s words, for we are constantly surrounded by them. Even subconsciously, without knowing, we all find ourselves internalizing the culture’s views and labeling them as truth. I have found myself adopting the world’s definition of beauty and determining my behavior based on it.

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Hope: A Tender Weapon

I have noticed myself succumbing to patterns of apathy recently. Feeling like I have been walking through life to the hums of this world, letting anxiety affect my personhood and my purpose. I miss witnessing the truth wage war and win against the lies and gloom. I miss feeling the

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A Sacred Lineage

There are moments in my life when I feel lonely, anxious, and sad. Some seasons, I feel these emotions more than others. I think the whole world has felt these emotions in a heightened way due to the crises our world has gone through, and is still going through. There

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The Lion and the Lamb

  In the psychological world, I learned that one’s beliefs and cognitions influence behavior. I have found this theory and sentiment to be very true in my own life. For example, when I believe that I am a burden and that people do not care what I have to say,

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His Character Makes Me Confident

As a kid, I remember going to a father-daughter camp with my dad. One of the activities was to climb up a double pamper pole together. If you have never been on one of these, it is a tall wooden pole with metal hooks all the way up to place

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Hope in the Cross of Christ

Sometimes I can’t help but wonder why God doesn’t answer all prayers the same way. I wonder why I see one prayer answered the same day I prayed it and yet another prayer left unanswered for a long time. I have realized that God’s timetable is not mine. He has

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Broken and Healing

At times, I feel as if there is no hope for a better tomorrow. There is so much that is broken, and there are so many who are hurting. Usually, in these moments, I end up with more questions than answers. In these moments, I feel what it means to

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Repent and Be Reconciled

I struggle with perfectionism in my flesh, and this often seeps into my relationships. For the longest time, I thought that I had to be “perfect” to be loved. Along with this belief, I thought that my friendships could be “perfect,” too. I can remember many times when I was

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There is a Better Way

Deuteronomy 30 touched me deeply when I read it. It is a powerful passage in which Moses gave the Israelites final encouragement before he died. They had been wandering for forty years in the wilderness at this point, and I cannot imagine how tired and confused they must have been.

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