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Allie Stanley is originally from Milton, GA and graduated from Auburn University this past May. She has a passion for serving students and was a middle school small group leader, a Young Life leader, a camp counselor and the Student Coordinator at Auburn Community Church. Allie now works with college students at a church in Woodstock, Ga while she is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Christian Leadership from DTS. She has a heart for pouring into younger generations and her prayer is that the Lord uses her to inspire and equip students to be godly young men and women who are passionately pursing the Lord while loving the people around them.
In this episode, we cover so many topics! Please invite your daughter (from tweens to college age and beyond) to listen in to her wisdom and practical advice.
- What was it like growing up as the daughter of Andy and Sandra Stanley?
- How can our daughters follow Christ while they are in college?
- What did your mom do really well?
- What advice do you have for us raising girls in today’s world?
Allie brings something to light in this episode which is so needed in our culture right now. How can we be present with our girls but not make them our entire identity? We talk through this a bit (in the middle and at the end) and I was seriously challenged.
Thank you, Allie, for the way you follow Jesus with your entire heart. And how you let others see and hear it. He IS BETTER! I pray God blesses your journey at DTS and know so many girls continue to be blessed through your work. – Courtney
Psalm 139
1 You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,
and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Goosebumps!! What an inspiring young lady! As a man of two little ones, I loved getting insight into the parenting of two people I admire so much! They obviously did a wonderful job!
Mom** not man 😜
This message is pure gold! Thank you Allie for your thoughts! I am encouraged this morning. ❤️ I was the mom who asked Courtney about college at Auburn and I have had peace ever since I read your response. It helped me know that my girls can live college differently than I did – grounded in the Lord – no better where they’re at by getting involved in places with the right people! Thank you!!!!