Today I came across a college comparison calculator. It allows you to enter 3 colleges that you are interested in and then score each college according to your opinion in areas like: setting (rural, urban, suburban),proximity to home, faculty accessibility, computer facilities, size, residence hall conditions,social life, athletic facilities/programs, reputation of school and so on. [...]
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Go For the “Fun” or Go For the Money? That question was, in some way, what the late Scrully Blotnick, Ph.D., decided to find out. He studied the career choices and consequent financial success of about 1500 people. Group A of the study (83% of the people) picked a career where they assumed they could [...]
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If I said you could do something today that would have eternal impact, would you do it? I have been thinking a lot lately about what teens can do that could have eternal significance. Sometimes I think that teens feel like their time to impact eternity won’t come until they are older and can get [...]
Moving forward in life toward our eternal destination requires focus on what is important. When moving ahead, we need to see the big perspective. Grab God’s map, the Bible, and understand the main destination is eternity with Him. All else on the journey is contingent on those two things. Once our future destination is established [...]
Your destination five, ten, or even twenty years from now is often determined by the decisions you make today. Certainly decisions about college have long term effects, but I am also talking about what may seem like smaller decisions. Some of these might be decisions about who your friends are, whether or not you should [...]
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I remember well the struggle I went through trying to surrender to and determine God’s will for my life concerning college. I distinctly remember the night the Lord won the victory. I basically knew what God wanted, but it was not what I wanted. It was about 2AM and I was sitting in the dark [...]
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God made each of us for specific purposes. He has a plan and purpose for each person that is indicated partially through the way He designed us.
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