Pick Up Your Mat

We all have seasons in our lives where some are more challenging than others, but challenges are meant to increase our faith in God, mature us, strengthen us, and make us wiser. God doesn’t intend for us to stay stuck in a season. He’s the only One that’s meant to stay the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. But we’re meant to morph and grow as He moves us from season to season. However, it is possible that we can stay stuck in a season for far too long, longer than God intended us, if we choose to.

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A Conversation About Chocolate with Chocolatier Christina Miles

Christina Miles is the Owner and Creator of Bruges Chocolaterie in Columbia, South Carolina. She creates hand-painted and handcrafted small batched artisan chocolate barks, chocolate truffles, and chocolate pastries. Trained in the U.S., Europe, and Morocco, Christina has brought her culinary and restaurant management skills to the American South but in the form of chocolate. 

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Lysa TerKeurst’s Uninvited Invites You Back In

Lysa TerKeurst unpacks how rejections of our past affect us more than we realize. All of us are either trying to heal a past rejection, deal with a present rejection or fear that an unexpected rejection is just around the corner. And that’s exactly why she wrote Uninvited.

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Seele Book of the Month- August

Many know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the popular Steve Martin remakes of the Father of the Bride movies, the calculating Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. Where the Light Gets In tells the full story of her mother Linda's struggle with Primary Progressive Aphasia—from her early-onset diagnosis through the present day. 

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A Chat with Victoria Bridges

Victoria has been a documentary filmmaker for most of her career. She’s half American, having gone to Harvard University, but she lives in the UK with her husband and daughter. Now she’s heading up a chapter of Global Girl Media in London.

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Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Revolutionary

Music educator, Cassandra S. Portee unpacks German composer Ludwig Van Beethoven, a music genius and revolutionary. She explains why Beethoven was a revolutionary and gives 5 responses of things that can be taken away from his life and apply it to our lives today. 

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It’s Actually Being Done for You

There are many moments in life when we will all feel as if the world is against us- losing a job, a break up, someone hurts us, we try to pursue a dream but it doesn’t seems as if we’re making any headway, we get a challenging boss, our church lets us down, family members hurt us, etc. And we all know that life isn’t fair, but often, when it looks like something is being done to us, it’s actually being done for us.

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