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On Guys, Dating, and Being Made in His Image with Hannah Patterson

October 10, 2019 By Juleeta Leave a Comment

Today’s post was written by Hannah Patterson. Here she is, rocking her smile and those gorgeous cowboy boots!

Howdy! That’s what we say here in College Station, Texas. My name is Hannah Patterson and I am an Allied Health major from Dallas, Texas, but more importantly I am THE loudest and THE proudest member of the fighting Texas Aggie class of 2023!

As a college student, and just being a girl in general, I am constantly surrounded by people and things saying I’m not enough and I’m not perfect. I am pressured to change the way I look at almost every moment, and so are most girls in today’s society.

Everywhere on any kind of media we see public figures and images of women who have been photo-shopped and edited and are told we should strive for this image. These are lies that are pushed at me every day and are ways the devil tries to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10). But Jesus has come so that we may have life and freedom from these lies. He says, “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Jesus Christ for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10). [Read more…] about On Guys, Dating, and Being Made in His Image with Hannah Patterson

Know Your Enemy

October 9, 2019 By Juleeta Leave a Comment

James Pond @unsplash nailed this photo. Crushing the Lego Enemy!

Have you ever looked at a magazine cover, and suddenly you felt not thin enough? Not curvy enough? Like your hair wasn’t thick enough or the right color?

Does that magazine model look “just so perfect” that it makes you second guess your beauty?

Well, that’s exactly what the magazine cover is supposed to do. The words and images work together to convince you: Buy this magazine, you will FINALLY know the secrets to becoming beautiful.

Satan attempts to scheme in these moments. He whispers to you, You need this magazine. Or this hair product. And these shoes.
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Methodeias is the Greek word Paul uses for “schemes” in Ephesians 6:10- Methodeias refers to a large scale, systematic plan. A project. A game-plan.

His schemes are organized, and they feed on our insecurities.

But if you know that Satan is scheming when that insecurity starts to rise up in you, you can identify what is happening. You have a good chance at STANDING against the schemes of the devil if [Read more…] about Know Your Enemy

Girls, Are You Ready for Change?

June 15, 2019 By Juleeta Leave a Comment

It’s out on DVD. If you haven’t read the book, yes it is worth your time this summer. Both the book and the movie will change how you see and love. I promise.

The Hate You Give – Have you seen it?

The first time I saw the movie, I laughed and cried and laughed more. I remember the evening well.

Bright lights flickered and faded to grey and then darkness.

I scooched back into my snuggly, red plush seat, and the projector revealed a figure on the screen. I looked right, barely able to make out the face of my girlfriend sitting only inches away. The pitch black of the theater invited me to focus on one image — the man about to speak to me, large and looming, straight ahead.

That evening, the darkness of the theater held a special kind of superpower. It created an intimacy between myself and the man who had just introduced himself as George Tillman, Jr — the incredibly gifted and bold director of The Hate You Give.

His deep voice spoke. With conviction, Tillman looked into the camera, his eyes seemingly focused on the millions of us sitting in the theater. He introduced this story of Starr, an African-American teenager whose name was gifted her by her father, that she might be a bright light for truth.

The book was written by Angie Thomas. But the story is also being written out in our lives today. How will teenagers, especially young women, respond in conversations about racism? Will young women be receptive to hearing and seeing the social ramifications created by hundreds of years of white-impelled shame on people of color?

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