by kandersen | Mar 15, 2024 | Christian Living
Almost a year ago, I got the call. We’ve all either gotten that call or dread the day when we will. I was enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon and unloading groceries from my car when my phone rang. I expected a pleasant, meandering conversation to hear all the latest...
by kandersen | Mar 2, 2024 | Christian Living
I still remember the first time I decided to try giving something up for Lent. Since I was from an entirely different church tradition, it felt awkward and unnatural. Being a college student, I was also at the age when many of my peers would spend their spring breaks...
by kandersen | Feb 23, 2024 | Christian Living, Christian Thought Contributions
The world we live in is designed to make us act like rabid wolves. But this endless feral insatiability is wrapped in a pretty bow of shopping bags and Instagram ads. Though our drives and desires are incessantly bombarded with irresistible offers that change our...
by kandersen | Feb 9, 2024 | Christian Living
Years ago, I was looking through my old MP3 player (not even an iPod, just a generic MP3 player), and I stumbled upon a voice recording I accidentally took on February 14th. I know this voice recording was an accident because it was many hours long, and when I pressed...
by kandersen | Feb 2, 2024 | Christian Living
Every day, we fight our own inner monologues, wondering if we’ve done a good job at work, if we’ve given enough to our loved ones, or if our anxious insecurities might be true. But at the end of the day, most of us just want someone to look us in the eyes and tell us...
by kandersen | Jan 26, 2024 | Christian Living
Something dangerous happens to us when we get swept away by the busyness of life. We find ourselves running from workweek to workweek, feeling like our lives are running us rather than running our own lives. When was the last time you stopped to reflect and take a...
by kandersen | Jan 20, 2024 | Christian Living
Is the Bible actually boring? Or have we made it boring in the ways we consume it? If you’ve been going to church for decades, sometimes your Bible time starts to fall flat. This happened to me. After graduating from Bible school, I was so burnt out from...
by kandersen | Jan 10, 2024 | Christian Living
Are you sick of feeling like you’ve failed? Studies show that 80% of New Year’s Resolutions peter out by the second week of February. The worst part of setting goals is feeling like you’ve failed. Whether you’ve missed a day or have given up...
by kandersen | Oct 13, 2023 | Christian Living
Growing up in the church, my great desire was to please God and to please the people who knew Him. This seems like a simple goal, and I felt like I’d been fairly successful as a teenager. It wasn’t until I grew older and began examining my upbringing that I realized...
by kandersen | Oct 2, 2023 | Christian Living
Evangelical Christianity has idolized the nuclear family. For those unfamiliar with the term, a nuclear family (also called the elementary family, atomic family, or traditional family) is a two-parent household consisting of a father, mother, and their...
