The Essential Attribute for Spiritual Health
I want to challenge you to spend some time this week praying through Luke 15. As you read about the sheep, the coins, the sons, place yourself in these stories. You’ll see that Jesus tells of a costly joy—one that comes with forgiveness and repentance, seeking and finding, tears and confusion. A joy that, in this broken world, can feel easy to lose . . . yet something inside us knows it’s always worth finding again.
What Miracle Are You Missing?
In this Christmas season, let’s be those who live with active patience, lifting our eyes and steadying our hearts so we can be faithful with our hands. Through grace we can see every mundane responsibility, such as the upkeep of a stable, as meaningful to the purposes of God.
There’s a Reason Jesus Told Us to Pray This
Fresh or familiar pain is never enjoyable, but we mustn’t forget that pain is good as long as it’s necessary. It locates what is hurt so it can be healed. Don’t deny the pain but do defy it through your daily surrender.
Three Things That Lead to the Miraculous in Your Life
What is God asking you to acknowledge, to bless, to break? Have you cursed what’s in your hands rather than blessing it and offering it to God?
How Many Times Should You Pray?
Sin does its best work in the dark. It fractures, separates, distorts, dealing in deception and delusion. Sin is powerful but it doesn’t stand a chance against the light. When brought into the light, its holes are exposed, and those holes become portals, if you will, for us to receive God’s redemptive holiness, a wholeness only made possible by grace. Within the light, even sin must bow its knee, surrendering to God’s plans to redeem, restore, and transform.
Is There Something You Need to Bring Into the Light?
Sin does its best work in the dark. It fractures, separates, distorts, dealing in deception and delusion. Sin is powerful but it doesn’t stand a chance against the light. When brought into the light, its holes are exposed, and those holes become portals, if you will, for us to receive God’s redemptive holiness, a wholeness only made possible by grace. Within the light, even sin must bow its knee, surrendering to God’s plans to redeem, restore, and transform.
Your Weekly Prayer Guide: How to See the Power of Prayer
Have you ever noticed that thanksgiving has a buoyancy to it? When you’re around people who practice costly gratitude, life feels lighter, even when it’s heavy.
Weekly Prayer Guide: How the Meek Inherit the Earth
There is hope, though. According to the proverb, while anxiety might weigh us down, just a single good word can reverse its effects, offering us courage in exchange for despair.
A Good Word for When Life Weighs You Down
There is hope, though. According to the proverb, while anxiety might weigh us down, just a single good word can reverse its effects, offering us courage in exchange for despair.