Day: May 2, 2013

Bible Study: Patience is a Virtue

What role does waiting have in the life of a Christian? This hour-long Bible study written by Seminary student, Benjamin Riley, can be used as part of a small group or as a personal meditation. What are you waiting for? Download a PDF of the Bible Study: Patience is a Virtue What are some things you’ve had to wait for in life? How did you feel during those times of waiting? Can waiting for something cause you to sin? Explain. Abraham and Sarah Genesis 12:1-4 Genesis 17: 1-2, 17-21 Genesis 21:1-7 What are Abraham and Sarah waiting for? How...

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On Campus: The Bad Day

We have all had that one bad day. That day where we don’t feel like getting out of bed, where we just feel like crying, or sometimes where we wonder if we are living the life we want to. Unfortunately for us college students, a bad day can turn into a bad week in a blink of an eye, we have so much more on our plates! We have school, extra circulars, and jobs to worry about. It seems that we can never catch a break! However, God tells us “In this world you will have trouble. But take...

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Book Review: Immigrants Among Us

Everybody likes simple answers to complex issues.  If our highly polemicized society reinforces one thing over and over again, it is that the answers we favor are right, and those who disagree with us are at best misinformed or stupid, but at worst are evil or fanatical or fundamentalist.  When we are feeling magnanimous we can pity those who disagree with what is obviously a truly simple and straightforward solution that we can see clearly.  When we are less magnanimous (which is more and more of the time), those who disagree with us can be tolerated only long enough...

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