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  2 Corinthians 5:17- “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” The second thing that I wanted to touch on in the “Let Your Light Shine” series, is new beginnings. I am covering not just the typical new beginnings, but also being able and willing to take the next step in your journey with God as well! I know for a lot of you, you may be switching jobs, getting into a relationship, starting school, moving, going to college to pursue a new degree, whatever the case may be we’ve all gone through a new beginning in our lives. One of the biggest new beginnings that I have had in my life was going into high school, there’s something different about high school, scarier almost, than going into middle school. I think part of it is the stereotype that high school gives. Everyone “clicks” into their friendships, classes, careers, and the whole social aspect in high school. I was so excited for high school because I thought that it ...

  Part 1: 1 Thessalonians 5:11 “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. I was thinking about things in this world that are relatable and something I could talk about. I was reading the book of Matthew in the Bible and it was talking about being the salt and the light of this Earth. Matthew 5:16 says, “In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your father in Heaven.” - But how often do we let people blow out our light? How do we keep people from dulling our light? How do I show Jesus’s light through me? These were all things that I was thinking about while reading those verses, so I wanted to share with you some of the things that Jesus has put on my heart about it! There are so many layers to this topic, so I am making it a series! Whether your light has been blown out, you don’t know how to shine your light, or you want to know how ...

I want to challenge everyone at the beginning of this: think about your life. Are there things that you know are bringing you farther away from God? I want you to acknowledge them. The reality is, they’re bringing you farther and farther away from Him, but His time is coming closer and closer.  One thing I think that is easy to bring us away from God is our image. It is so easy to see flaws in ourselves. It’s so easy to wish that they weren’t there. We can find ourselves upset about them and the more we get upset the more we are willing to tear others down. There are things about all of us that we wish we could change, but God made us perfectly imperfect in His image. I want to ask you who you are allowing to speak into your life. Being a teenager, it’s really easy to let a lot of people speak into my life without even realizing that I’m doing it. It’s like I pass on a microphone to all of the people who don’t even know me to put their judgements and their opinions on me. We begi...

I feel like it is really easy to doubt God. When something doesn’t go the way we planned, or we get hurt, or we don’t feel like He showed up how we think He was supposed to, we start to doubt if He was even there at all.  I’ve always known that I wanted to be on some sort of stage. I didn’t really care about who was in the audience because I figured, if you don’t know them then why does it matter. The thing is, one single audience member can change your life forever, but until you figure out who that is, you don’t realize how much you need them. I remember the first night I wrote a song,  I wrote it for my best friend who moved away. I thought, “oh this is kind of cool.” So generally the next thing I did after that was to try and smash out another hit song. Well, let me just say, I hope the world never comes to something so bad that it goes on the radio lol. I remember the moment that I knew for sure that I wanted to make this my career, I was at my first concert and as my fav...

Fear-  this is something that has really been trying to attack me through the last couple of months. It’s so easy to make fear something that is relevant and normal in our lives without even really realizing we are doing it.  I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to feel like I am disappointing someone. I can get so caught up in making sure that something is perfect, that I end up overlooking the bigger picture. Satan definitely tried to get into my mind and cause me to fear what was ahead. I was thinking about school, would it be weird when we go back, or will people have changed and moved on, I started going through all of the different scenarios in my mind that it really started to control me. I started thinking about what would happen if my friends had changed or I went back and everyone was different. The thing is, I didn’t even realize that I was making these things fears because of how much I was focusing on them.  One night I was sitting in bed and I was ju...