Category: Blogs
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What Do You Think About?
What are your thought patterns? What do you spend the most time thinking about throughout your days and weeks? Last week I touched on the topic of idolatry. Idolatry is obsessing over or being consumed by someone or something other than God or – in other words – worshiping someone…
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Always Looking Forward to the Next Thing
How are you doing this fall? Not going to lie, for me, it has been a rollercoaster season. I have been feeling very up and down emotionally and struggling to be content with where God has me. I even had a few weeks of anxiety creeping back into my life.…
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Depression & Discipline: How To Get Out Of A Slump
Even if you have never struggled with depression, you have probably experienced not wanting to do something that you know is good for you. This is a very common human struggle. The Apostle Paul describes it in Romans 7:15 as, “I do not understand what I do. For what I…
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What Does It Mean to Have Confidence in God?
By: Alli Matthews What does it mean to have confidence in the Lord? Previously, we explored what it looks like when we try to have confidence in ourselves. Here is a link to that blog post if you missed it: https://branchonthevine.com/2024/06/04/the-people-pleasing-paralysis-problem-self-confidence-vs-confidence-in-god/ To summarize that one, building our confidence in ourselves…
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The People-Pleasing Paralysis Problem: Self-Confidence vs. Confidence in God
By: Alli Matthews I recently listened to a speaker who said self-confidence is one of the most important qualities needed to gain success. This advice takes me back to sophomore year of high school. I had a great group of friends, but if I was in a class without them,…
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Three Things We Learned In Three Years of Marriage
By: Alli Matthews Today is mine and Evan’s three year wedding anniversary, so I thought I would do something a little different for this week’s blog. Evan and I will each share three things we have learned in our three short years of marriage. So, yes, I know, the title…
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What Does It Mean to be Non-Judgmental?
By: Alli Matthews Hello and welcome back to the blog! It has been a wonderful and challenging first six weeks of being a physician assistant in psychiatry. I decided to take a longer break from writing to focus on learning, resting, and spending quality time with people. But recently, I…
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BIG NEWS: Life & Blog Update
By: Alli Matthews Like I said last Tuesday, life has been crazy lately. Let me reassure you, it’s been a good kind of crazy. I’ve been spending more time with friends, baking, reading, and getting all the things done to become a Michigan resident. (Yes, I am now legally a…
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How to Share Your Testimony Part 2
By: Alli Matthews You’re sitting at one of your favorite restaurants with someone in your life who you care about deeply. You know this person doesn’t have a relationship with God, and you’ve been wanting to tell them about how Jesus changed your life. Now seems like a good time,…
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My 2 Minute Testimony from College
By: Alli Matthews Life has been crazy lately, so I ran out of time to post a poem on Friday. Instead, I’m sharing an example of a 2 minute testimony – actually it’s my testimony that I wrote my sophomore year of college! I hope it not only helps you…
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