When your grief is almost more than you can handle
I could have burned myself out trying hard to earn His love.
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The Enemy’s Biggest Mistake: Discounting Women
Make no mistake that if we’re still in the midst of rescue, He is still in the process of setting things right.
When You’re Needing Some Hope in the Middle of Your Story
There are parts of our stories we desperately wish were different.
Feeling kinda inadequate and insignificant? What if…
Somewhere along the way, perhaps you have systematically talked yourself out of anything great God may wish to do through you.
The Christian Church, Suicide & Mental Health: When It’s Down to the Wire & Things Are on Fire
So, turns out, depression is like a room engulfed in flames and you can’t breathe for the sooty smoke smothering you limp. Ask me how I know. And suicide is…
How to refocus – right in the midst of everything
Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are.
How Letting Go Gives You More Joy
Too many of us are bored with our Christian lives because we don’t see the daily opportunities for adventure granted us by our sovereign God.
The Secret to Feeling Lucky about Your Age
Maybe blowing out candles is actually about fanning the flames of genuine thanks.
What Happens When We Listen to Actually Hear
When we listen with a sincere desire to know someone’s perspective, when we seek to understand the heart behind their ideas, beliefs, fears, and aspirations, we are participating in a remarkable act of compassion.
When you’re desperate to see the positive in your loss
Maybe the point of loss is to show us that all is actually not lost.
Books, Communion, Conversations, Faith, Guest posts, Hope, humility, Listening, Refiner's Fire, Restoring Wonder
How Change Can Happen When We Share the Messy Parts of our Stories
Jesus spoke life-altering words, but He backed them up with redemptive action—not only on the cross but through the way He loved people.
How to Lead a Generation that is Really Good at Looking Good
For years I relied on the power of “niceness.”
When You Don’t Belong – and why that’s Okay
As important as it is for us to know where we do belong, it’s important for us to know where we do not.
When you realize you’re living a life beyond control
Who is in control? God is. He has my good in mind, and He is 100 percent ready to display His glory in and through my weakness.
Tired of all the indifference? Try this:
The truest love we can show our neighbors around the globe is to bring them an opportunity to know the God who made them and loves them.
