Chapel Coffee Conversation

Welcome to Alphabitz! We are Allison and Elizabeth. We met at Texas Lutheran University where we both went to school. Well, Allison is finishing her freshman year and I am getting ready to graduate. We thought it would be a good idea to start a blog to share our experiences with life in both college and in post-college life. Our faith is an important part of our lives and we have really enjoyed conversation about our faith. It was in campus chapels that we began to connect our faith to our everyday experiences in life. In January of this year we began a journey of reading through the Bible together. We did this by reading a little of the Bible each day and then we met on Fridays, after chapel, and joined each other for faith conversation over coffee. As the year went on we realized how much this journey challenged our faith. We began to understand why as Christians we often spend time reading the New Testament because the Old Testament is not always what we want to hear.

In Alphabitz we will share our experiences along our journey of reading through the Bible as we make connections with the scripture and our own lives as two young women of faith. We hope you will enjoy our thoughts and we hope you too are challenged and encouraged by scripture and everyday life!

Hi I'm Allison! As we've read through the Bible together so far, I've really enjoyed not only the different perspective that comes with reading scripture and hearing the thoughts of Elizabeth as she reads the same verses, but also the way the message comes to life. I've have also seen the way that sharing faith can create stronger relationships. I look forward to sharing this journey with you too, and I hope that you also can grow in your faith as you are challenged and strengthened by the scripture that has sustained our faith through the centuries.

Hey! I'm Elizabeth! I have really enjoyed this experience that Allison and I have had this year. I'm really sad that I will soon have to join her for coffee via skype to have our faith conversation about our Bible reading because I will no longer be living as close to her. I found that reading through the Bible is truly a journey which is much like faith. Reading hasn't always been easy. It hasn't always been easy to make the time to do reading and be faithful with it. Like my own faith, the experience of reading through the Bible has its own ups and downs, and begs many questions of me. As I enter the next chapter of my life after I graduate from TLU, I look forward to reading more of my Bible and I hope to spend a lifetime growing in my faith.

The two of us will end each blog entry with a few alphabitz for you to consider.

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Sisters in Christ,
~Elizabeth & Allison