Birthdays can set us up for disappointment.

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I’d like to thank all the young adults who came out to support the AIDS-Awareness coffee house on Friday. This is such a huge issue that Blessed Hope—the entire church is getting on board with—we need everyone’s help. This event was just the beginning.

I recently found myself downtown at a McDonalds, eating a yogurt parfait, and listening to another pastor talk about purity from across the table.

I’m very excited about what God has for Blessed Hope Community Church in 2007.  I have personally been praying much...

I sometimes wonder if I'm really living according to God's plan for me.  So often, we fall short of his splender.  Some days, from the second we get up, things go wrong one after the next.  In response, I find myself trying harder.  But no matter how hard I try, it doesn't seem to be enough.  No matter how hard I try, how much I pray, how much I fast... it still isn't enough.  I'm not in control, and never will be.

We’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  Did you know that eating breakfast helps you lose weight?

There are many benefits to sleep including better reaction time, better judgement, better vision, better information processing, better short-term memory, greater performance, more motivation and greater patience.

During my second year in college, my best friend and I noticed that we were starting to get manguts. We didn’t like it so much so we started lifting regularly.

Have you ever seen someone exercising in the wrong clothes? A few months ago, I went running with a more experience runner for the first time.

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Silence is deafening.

The other day I was exiting a social setting where a group of us where talking about God.  The second I walked out the door it hit me.  The silence was deafening.