“Life, for most of us, feels like a movie we’ve arrived to forty minutes late. Sure, good things happen, sometimes beautiful things. But tragic things happen...

I kept thinking I could just repent and try again. But every day I kept falling. And every night I kept asking God for forgiveness and telling him I’d try ha...

The inspired poet, David, did… “One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to ga...

One of the worst feelings in the world is to feel that you are invisible. The feeling that others don’t see, know or care about what you’re going through ca...

How do we care – but not carry the weight of the world on our shoulders? How do we feel the pressure of our concern for others – without that pressure crush...

In part one of this blog post, we identified one of the spiritual pandemics of the modern age as “self-loathing” – that nagging feeling that I don’t measure ...

Why does it bother me sometimes when she looks so happy in her Instagram photos? Why does my heart sink when I get up and look in the mirror in the morning?...

I’ve learned to ask myself that question regularly. Sometimes the answer comes to me quickly – like the voice of Jesus speaking directly into my heart. Oth...

That’s what happens as you get older―you begin to eliminate options. The more mistakes you make, the more options you begin to eliminate, until your focus b...

Do you remember what it was like to be spiritually lost? Do you remember when life seemed like an unsolvable puzzle or maybe even a cruel joke? Do you reme...

This post by Tiffany Chacon, whose popular blog, “Mommy of Mayhem, Christian Motherhood in a Chaotic World", gives moms 10 practical ways to find calm in the...

But God has slowed our lives down recently and we’re forced to face some of those issues – uncomfortable as they may be for us. Our church-wide daily Bible ...

He reigns! “…he (God the Father) raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms… (Ephesians 1:20b)” (see also Hebrews 8...

Eventually, this pandemic will be over. And we’ll all be back to our normal, busy lives: commuting back and forth to school or work, maybe driving the kids ...

If you have nothing good to say, it’s better to say nothing at all. God’s Word puts it this way: “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, bu...

I get it… No sports on T.V. No hopping in your car and driving to work. No stopping by your favorite restaurant for a bite. We’re starting to feel a little...

What if you could make someone’s day better simply with a few words? Would you say them? What if you could ease someone else’s suffering, comfort them, and ...

I looked at the road with its potholes and pitfalls and wondered how I’d get by. But he reached for my arm and pointed up high, and simply said— “Look to the...

KINDLING WOOD FOR THE FIRES OF PRAYER WHEN IT'S TOUGH TO GET STARTED When unmotivated (inspiring prayers) Psalm 1, 19, 27, 103, 107 When feeling faithless (g...

...and reading the endless negative news about impending doom, and you feel a low-grade panic from the time you get out of bed in the morning. (And if you ha...