Happy New Year, everyone! I am so happy to be back on WordPress after a holiday break. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year.

This past year was definitely crazy! I graduated high school, got engaged, started college, and God is taking me down a path of life-changing things. Growing up and being busy has never been so real! I have learned so many things, and I’m still learning things as I grow. I’m so excited for what God will do!

I encourage you to look back on the year and learn from it. How did you change? Did you change at all? Why don’t we change that? Thank God for what is behind you, but don’t look back too long- keep moving forward, eyes on God, and 2015 will be a great year!

What did you learn in 2014? What are your goals for 2015? Comment…

Daily Prompt:   Be the Change

“Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.”
~ J. Gresham Machen

In honor of J. Gresham Machen, Presbyterian scholar and defender of the Christian faith, who died on this day in 1937.

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Today in History January 1^st

Vintage Dilbert
December 31, 2001

What’s exciting about life is that every morning offers a brand new day with unlimited possibilities.  Yesterday’s mistakes and regrets belong to yesterday.  Today is a clean slate, a chance to start over, to do or become anything you want, a chance to go for it!  So, jump into life with both feet!  Go forward, head held high, expecting the best…you may be surprised at how often that’s exactly what you’ll get.

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So many times I find myself in the middle of a battle before I even realize I’m in one and boy, does that put me at a disadvantage! I need to go into training.  Let’s just say a soldier wouldn’t go off to war without first preparing him or herself for battle, right?  I’m no expert of war by any means but doesn’t it make sense that the commanders of the army would try to defeat the enemy on a smaller scale first before declaring war.

My eleven year old son, Tom absolutely loves anything to do with WW II.  I once asked him why does he like it so much and his answer was,

“He had to learn as many war strategies as possible.”

I said, why?

His answer was, “So I can fight the enemy, of course!”

Soldiers aren’t just put on the frontline to fight for their country they…

Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts.  Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace.  Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.  Again I say, don’t get involved in foolish, ignorant arguments that only start fights (2 Timothy 2:22-23)

I remember the old western, “Gunsmoke” where the sheriff was known tell potential “bad men” to get out of Dodge to avoid conflict with the law.  So, too, are the circumstances in our lives when the devil seems to be more powerful than we are.  One of the most important pieces of information that the Bible teaches is that this great dragon–the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world–was thrown down to the earth with all his angel (Revelation 12:9).   Even Jesus was tempted by the devil’s power over the earth.  Again, the devil took him to a very high…