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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...

Hello friends and family :) I'd like to take a moment to share with y'all about a trip coming up that I'll be taking with a ministry organization that has been a major part of my life for the last 10 years. If you've heard about my upcoming trip to Scotland and found yourself wondering "what is she going to do  there?" or "why is another  trip so important?" or "who on earth is DRAMA Ministry?" or "what  kind of a ministry is DRAMA?" or "why can't I get Jessica to stop talking about DRAMA?" - then this post is for you! Or if you've not heard about this Scotland trip yet, then all the more so, please read on... I'm going to write this in chunks so that you can skip to the section you want to know the most about, since I struggle with an inability to be concise. :) - How I've been involved with DRAMA over the years and who DRAMA is  -  (at the bottom of this post I have included a link to 2 ...

Possible album inspiration? ...that is, if one were to attempt to record an album... :D

Sadly it's been over a year since my last blog update, so consider this my Christmas Letter Edition where I do a brief catch-up of the last year just to keep everyone up to speed on life. *April 2012 - My nephew Eliam Justus was born! *May 2012 - I graduated from NTBI! Other highlights included Wayumi retreat with my senior class, a day trip to Philly, a DRAMA banquet and homeschool graduation *June 2012 - Wedding season:) and back to work with Friendship Community *July 2012 - Extra hours with FC and many a Friday spent back at the Dragon (Garden of Eden Produce at Green Dragon Farmer's Market) *August 2012 - Totally refreshed and ignited by dropping in at DRAMA's teen week camp in Mifflinburg, PA, great time at DRAMA's family campout, and then began classes at RACC - working on my prerequisites for my BSN! *September 2012 - DRAMA's Training Camp and getting into the flow of classes *October 2012 - Was able to hop down to Virginia to visit my bestie Daniell...

Hold the fold! I was just leisurely enjoying school when all of the sudden - wham! things sped up to roughly the speed of light and haven't stopped yet! (that's why I skipped writing a February update) Every week is packed with school, work , and things @ church, and in the last month and a half I've had something going on every weekend except for one. I think the next 2 months are going to look just about the same, but I am seriously loving it.  Since my last update, which was written before school started, I guess about 2 months worth of activity has gone on and I could share it all, but I think I'll keep it down to the bare essentials so as to avoid a 5 page update. Your welcome. :) -------------------Classes: In my first block I had Oral Communications, Philippians, and Colossains/Philemon. I didn't die in Oral Communications, Philippians may be the best class I've had at school yet (close race with Romans and Hebrews), and Colossians and Philemo...

I've fallen behind and skipped my November and December updates! (at which some of you probably thought you were off the hook) :) And now it's January. Let me get everybody up to speed. --------Where I'm at: I am beginning to pack my bags to head back up to Michigan for my final semester at New Tribes Bible Institute. I have been telling everyone here that my time there has been the best 2 years of my life. And truly, I have been forever altered. I treasure now more than ever the Gospel which is the power to salvation - not just initially but every day as I walk in the power of the new risen life of Christ by the Spirit. Man, how many times in my life have I tried to improve myself - the "old man" - rather than walk in the new? and then only been able to produce the "fruit of Jessica" instead of the fruit of the Spirit. My mind is blown by the realization that this awesome God in the Bible I've devoted 2 years of my life to studying is the s...