Real Stories: Anonymous

For most of my life I viewed God to be distant, moody, mostly angry and really just interested in throwing everybody in hell except for an elite few people who could earn enough favor while on earth to make it to heaven. In context to life my religion and concepts of God had absolutely failed [...]

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Real Stories: Jess

From the time I was 17 until I turned 20 I was held in bondage to Eating Disorders. I struggled with anorexia, bulimia, and exercise bulimia; if I wasn’t ingesting up to ** laxatives at a time, I was spending hours in a gym. I may have had the “world image” of “beauty” but I [...]

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Real Stories: Graham

“As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.:” (2 Cor. 7:9-10, ESV) As only Paul [...]

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Real Stories: Valerie

My story began when I was ten when my grandma sent me to a weight watchers meeting because I was “overweight”– like most ten year old girls I still had baby weight I guess but not in her eyes. Embarrased and never measuring up to her “standards” I started to binge to block the pain [...]

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Thoughts on C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity

I love C.S. Lewis, as you may have noticed. I’ve spent a lot of time reading & rereading The Chronicles of Narnia, but I’m just now diving into who he was as a man and some of his other writings. I am finishing up Mere Christianity. (book review coming soon) Highly recommend checking it out! [...]

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Real Stories & Casas Por Cristo

In six days, I will be venturing south with 30+ other folks from the ministry of North to that most dangerous city across the border. It’s best I’m not too specific, but you probably get it. Anyway, we will be spending just under a week building houses for 3 homeless families. This is my third [...]

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Twilight: Part 2

Last week, I blogged about Edward’s 5 Romantic Promises to Bella. If you haven’t caught up on that blog, click HERE to read it. Today, I want to build off of that blog a little bit with some ideas that have been floating through my head this week. Let’s pretend. Let’s say you are a [...]

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I miss Africa..

A story from the warm heart of Africa… After much effort and van trouble, we found ourselves turning off the dirt road we had been bouncing along for the previous hour and into a forest of rubber trees. There was no road to follow, and as we wove between the trees the August sun began [...]

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Why Women LOVE Twilight

There is this little thing called Twilight…(insert wild screaming from women everywhere). A blog about the Twilight Series has the potential to be quite controversial. Twi-hards and Twi-haters are everywhere right now with the recent release of the third Twilight movie, Eclipse. (Not, to be confused with the tasty brand of gum or the natural [...]

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Happy 6 Months!

A White Stone Blog has been writing now for 6 months! I am currently working on Sunday’s blog…it’s going to be a doozy on “Why Women Love Twilight.” In the mean time, to celebrate our 6 months of chatting, I am posting the most read posts on A White Stone Blog. If you haven’t read [...]

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