{"id":9,"date":"2016-11-16T00:13:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T00:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayfaith\/?p=9"},"modified":"2016-11-16T00:14:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T00:14:50","slug":"welcome-everyday-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayfaith\/2016\/11\/welcome-everyday-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Everyday Faith!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome!<br \/>\nI am very excited to join Beliefnet to share my faith with you.<br \/>\nI hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as I share my walk of faith with you.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps like you, I became a Christian as a child. But it wasn&#8217;t until I become an adult that I truly began to think about and explore what a personal relationship with Jesus really meant, not just intellectually, but emotionally. <\/p>\n<p>In the past year, I began writing a weekly faith column for my hometown newspaper in Colorado, The Summit Daily News. More than any other event in my life, this weekly column has forced me to think more carefully about what I believe and why.<\/p>\n<p>It has strengthened my faith and made me realize how much more I have to learn.<\/p>\n<p>I have the same hopes for this column.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to share this journey with all of you. I look forward to hearing from you, and your faith journey as well.<\/p>\n<p>Please join me here every Tuesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>God bless you.<\/p>\n<p>But as it is written: &#8220;Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.&#8221;<br \/>\n1 Corinthians 2:9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! I am very excited to join Beliefnet to share my faith with you. I hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as I share my walk of faith with you. Perhaps like you, I became a Christian as a child. 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