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I don't know about y'all, but I ditched the whole WWJD fad a long time ago because I thought it was only meant to make the person stating it feel pious and the person being asked it feel guilty. I'm really not about condemning people as means of making myself look awesome. --->However, today it dawned on me that there is still something really great about asking, What Would Jesus Do? Have you ever struggled with how to know whether you're walking in the Spirit or fumbling in the flesh? That is, am I acting the way I should as one who has been saved and changed by Christ or am I acting in a way that gives no evidence of His presence in my life? Think about it. What does the Spirit do? The Spirit manifests the life of Christ in us (2 Cor. 4:10-12), and produces Christ-likeness in us like the classic "fruit of the Spirit" (Gal. 5:22-23). If I'm wondering, "is this me or is this God's Spirit?", I simply think "is this something Christ w...

  I'm going to try to start up semi-regular updates again while I'm away at school. Little recap - 12 days I go I was just leaving Scotland where I spent 2 weeks encouraging our Christian friends there and working towards establishing a discipleship & mime-evangelism team with DRAMA Ministry. I could write a whole post on that experience alone. In fact, I will! But not right now. For now, suffice it to say that my mind was blown at how awesome the trip was and I am super excited for what lies ahead there. We left Scotland Wednesday morning, August 14, and, due to mechanical complications with our plane, we didn't arrive home until Thursday 11pm, August 15. I left home to drive 30 hours to Nebraska on Friday, August 16. It was an insane turn around, to put it mildly. I'm generally pretty good at adjusting to different time zones, but 7 time zones in a 3 day period was more than I'd ever done before. Classes started the following Monday. I'm glad to say th...