October 2011
36 posts
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TAG TEAM: forgiving my ex and getting closure
Anonymous asked: So, its been 5 months since my boyfriend and I broke up. I’ve tried everything to reconcile with him, as friends, and yeah, we’re friends. I’ve been more than willing to forgive him for the pain he’s caused me, and I’m open for anything he has to say. The thing is, it seems that he’s not willing to talk about the past, and that leaves me with...
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Reaching the hard-hearted
lightthelove asked: I’ve been watching prison documentaries and started getting a lot of thoughts and questions in my head. They’re so hardened and hard-hearted. How do you affect people like that? I know everybody has a soft spot, but how do you convince them to turn to God instead? You should share more of your prison ministry stories with us. I’d love that. =)
Unka Glen...
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Improving your most important relationship
mishmash asked: Hi Unka Glen! Other than praying, singing hymns to God, worshiping, reading the Bible, etc. What are some other ways to have a good relationship with God?
Unka Glen answered: Well you’ve got a good list there. Instead of adding more ways, let’s see how we can improve each of these ways of building a good relationship with God. So let’s start with prayer.
As...
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In control of the sexiness
revivingthesoul asked: I’ve recently started dating an amazing, Christian guy, who has been my best friend for two years. We’re doing the long distance thing as he’s interning with a church for a year and I’m at uni. We both know that we’re in this for the long haul. We’re both aware that we struggle with sexual temptation and we’ve laid out a lot of...
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Where is God… I can't feel Him anymore.
bryandrums asked: Hey Unka Glen! I have been going through a season for a while now where I don’t feel God. I ask Him to help me get through a certain sin, or to help guide me through other things, but I just don’t feel Him talking to me, or helping me out at all. I have even asked to be comforted and I haven’t go it. I just don’t know what to do, am I not saved? Am I...
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“Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. Neo in The Matrix. Harry Potter in all those books....”
– Unka Glen (unkaglen.tumblr.com)
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Lost love...new prospects...bad timing
jasminelovesjesus asked: While I’m moving on from my ex (who has been a jerk to me latley), I’ve been really close friends with this one guy. At first I thought it was deep friendship. But I like talking to him, I like being around him, and I look forward to the phone calls at night. The thing is, I told myself and him I wanted to focus more on God. He is a Christian, which I like,...
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Break-ups, Balance, and Bringing out the best in...
Anonymous asked: A few months ago my boyfriend broke up with me. I’ve grown so much stronger in the Lord, and I can see God’s purpose in the split. I had lost my vision for Christ and started acting needy; he was having doubts about his walk and the nature of Christian marriage (basically we both needed to grow). God has been so good to me though the pain. We’ve had no contact...
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“You are a link in an unbroken chain going all the way back Christ Himself and...”
– Unka Glen (unkaglen.tumblr.com)
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Body image, and that cruel mirror!
Anonymous asked: Heya Unka Glen! I really need some help! I’m 17 and there is not a day that goes by that I’m not thinking about my weight and wanting to loose weight; basically I dont know how to be happy with what I face in the mirror. I really want to see myself as Jesus sees me, but I really have a hard time believing it. I am ensnared with fear of never finding a husband and I...
Prayer request Saturday
From time to time I get requests from other people to have YOU pray for stuff. And while I am pretty determined to keep this blog focused on ministering to you, I can’t deny that you, the coolest and awesomest (shut up spellcheck) followers in the whole dang world do represent a mighty army of prayer warriors who regularly have the enemy on the run.
So, for the time being, I’ll...
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Finding a fight you can believe in
Anonymous asked: Unka Glen! I’d like to thank you for all the great advice you give! :D Now, its question time; I am asking this on behalf of a girl in my church who doesn’t have tumblr. She does all the things a Christian is supposed to do, but she isn’t getting anywhere with it. She doesn’t feel Jesus’s presence in her life at all, and she’s starting to...
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Lost love or rekindled romance?
Anonymous asked: Hi Unka Glen! When I was in high school, I had my first love. When we broke up I was torn into pieces. We didn’t continue our relationship since he moved and we weren’t sure how to deal with distance since we were really young back then. I’ve had other relationships that didn’t work. Maybe it was because I was never over my first. I reconnected with him...
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If it works behind bars, it'll work anywhere...
leavesofdreams asked: For someone who’s thinking of helping out in a prison ministry, what is your advice? What kind of mental preparation do you recommend, if any? What can or would you share from your experience in prison ministry?
Unka Glen answered: After more than 20 years I suppose I could fill a book, but let’s talk about the most basic and important stuff. And let’s...
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“You shouldn’t settle for “good enough” in your relationships,...”
– Unka Glen (unkaglen.tumblr.com)
“The most powerful word in the universe is “anyway”. As in, you mess up, but God...”
– Jed Brewer (via jedbrewer)
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When dating and romance turns you into the third...
Anonymous asked: Hi Unka Glen! I have a very important question and who better to ask? I have two very close friends whom I love so so much. We’ve been friends for two years and I really cannot express how much they’ve helped me to grow in Christ and taught me how to be open, vulnerable and how to love. Oh, I should mention that one of them is a guy and the other is a girl. They like...
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The secret control to your beauty
jessicaaa-annne asked: Hi Unka! First off, I want to say thanks so much for your blog, its a been a real blessing to me! Now my question, I serve with the college group at my church and one of the things I have noticed with our girls is the difficulty in not allowing society to dictate what is beautiful and what is not. A lot of girls have gone through things that, in their mind, has diminished...
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“Quit trying to straighten out your life before you give it to God. Give God your...”
– Unka Glen (unkaglen.tumblr.com)
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You could be next!
Relevant Magazine, as I mentioned before, is reading through Tumblr posts to find material to post to their website, and this week they came across a post by Jed Brewer from my ministry staff.
Check out the article here on the Relevant website, and leave a nice comment. You never know, it might keep them looking around Tumblr and maybe they’ll come across one of your awesome posts!
And...
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Naked chests and disappointing Christians
becausehelovedmefirst asked: Hi Unka Glen. I want to ask advice about a certain friend. He’s a “Christian”, yet he keeps posting shirtless pictures of himself—and not the ones on the beach— with a group of friends. He poses in front of the mirror showing off his body. I considered him as my guy best friend and I was really disappointed because I thought he was...
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Dating, pursuing, and being slutty
Anonymous asked: I was just wondering what your thoughts/Biblical knowledge are on this kind of a situation: What if a girl meets a guy that she likes (a man of God, not just some random hot guy that she’d be unequally yoked with), but she does not pursue him because she’s waiting for God to send a man to pursue her, but still prays that it’s that guy anyway? Is that bad or...
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Dear Satan,
Every now and then I find myself really freaking out about a certain sin. Like, THIS sin, this one is a game-changer. This sin says I’m not a real Christian, this sin says that God just can’t be okay with me. This sin just disqualifies me completely. But then I wonder, where do I get this idea? Where does it say that THIS particular sin is a deal-breaker? Then I thought of you. I...
A quick shout out!
To my new followers from Wheaton College. You guys were awesome, and I had a great time at the speaking gig, and even more fun hanging out after. You rawk.
Also to FunkyCoolMasina (high in the running for coolest Tumblr name ever), for her recent post.
I saw that, and I was all like “whaaa?”, and then I was all like “you so craaazy”, and then I was all like...
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A NEW WORSHIP SONG FROM OUR SERVICE FOR FOLKS...
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Love and like and stuff you can't control
tingaroo asked: How can we better love someone who is different from us in almost every aspect? We have different values, morals, work habits, personality, just about everything. I have a hard time liking him, asking me to love him seems almost humanly impossible. There’s also the part where I don’t really want to even though I know I should because Jesus loves an imperfect person...
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Telling the truth instead of playing the martyr
onlyyougotmeflyingwitheagles asked: Hi… so um, I kind of have a question… today something happened at church I’m not happy about… I wrote a song, and now they’re trying to put it to music. Which is great! Except for the fact that one of the people, that I don’t even know, changed a line, a very important part of the chorus. I just kind of want advice on how to...
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A prayer for all those struggling with guilt
Dear Lord, I confessed my sins, and then I asked for forgiveness… But I still feel guilty. All the time. I mean, it’s not like I’m supposed to be happy, or even at peace, after what I did, right? On the other hand, I’m starting to realize that by carrying all this emotional guilt, I’m basically calling you a liar when you said you’d forgive me completely and...
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spiritual connection versus physical connection
Anonymous asked: Would it be wrong to pursue a girl that I am less physically attracted to than I am spiritually attracted to? We’re on the same page, pursuing many of the same aspects of God’s heart.. It’s a good match and it has been confirmed to me by a few friends. I am nervous though that I will feel as if someone “better looking” will come along.. know what I mean?
Unka Glen answered: I...
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“God understands everything. Someone did you wrong, now you want to do something...”
– Unka Glen (unkaglen.tumblr.com)
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Hopping from guy to guy versus being alone
holdthepancakes asked: Where to begin? I feel like in order for me to stop liking one guy, I have to like a different guy. Weird right? I keep praying for things to be different because I feel like I’ll never know if my feelings are real or not, but nothing’s really changed. I don’t know what to do. Am I wrong to have these feelings? Is it normal to always be fond of someone? I...
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Avoiding that Christian doormat scenario
astringofelephants asked: Hello! I have two questions for you. First, how do I know if I’m loving others like Jesus would and not just being a doormat? (My college roommate never cleans any of our communal stuff even though I ask her to and she says she will. So I clean it. I want to love her, but sometimes I just feel used.) Secondly, I realize that NO ONE is perfect and we live in a...
The coolest people on the planet to the rescue!
truth-wilson asked: Hey Unka Glen, I’ve been reading your blog for a few months now, and I want to say thank you so much for what you’re doing on and off the internet. I know that many of us think that your blog is a real blessing, but what you’re doing in real life is amazing. You give your heart and soul into the people you serve because of Jesus, and I- and I’m...
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When you don't want church to take over...
serenescreams asked: So in our school we have a bible club, but this group of people from a certain church have sort of taken over and made it their church club. Anyone (including me) feel like outcasts if we want to go to bible club. They’ve gone as far as renaming bible club to one of the kinds of services at their church. It’s funny cause it’s supposed to be an equal access...
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Getting to know the real Jesus
ashieldaroundme asked: Unka Glennn! The bible talks about Jesus’s birth, a few childhood memories, and his journey as a teacher and the Messiah. But what happened in between, and why are there such large gaps in Jesus’s history?
Unka Glen answered: The gospel writers (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) included very little biographical detail on Jesus, period. They mostly only gave us...
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A Prayer for Those About to Take a Test
Dear Lord, AAAAAAAHH! HELP! Oh please, oh please, oh please. I know I said that if you helped me get though that last test, that I’d never ask you for anything ever again. But here I am. In fact, I’m starting to re-think this whole bargaining system. I can’t seem to hold up my end. I keep needing you to bail me out. Let’s face it, I totally depend on you. I’m...
