
FIRST LIGHT, THEN GRACE (June 13, 2025)
Wherever grace is welcomed and received, joy follows, just as daylight follows dawn. And so we can read backwards from so many grayed-out, joyless souls to learn how few have heard and loved and lived...
12 Kesä 20251min

GOTTA TELL SOMEBODY (June 06, 20250
In every soul who has ever been healed, conviction rises that they must tell the story of how God’s goodness rebuilt a broken body or a wounded spirit. Bones got mended; diseases conquered; mobility ...
5 Kesä 20252min

SWEET WORD OF GRACE (May 30, 2025)
My pride is stung. My spirit’s wounded. The untrue, unjust thing that someone said, that someone wrote, went viral with unheard-of speed, fanned on by evil angels. And rising with the bitter righteous...
29 Touko 20251min

HAPPILY SURRENDERED (May 23, 2025)
If you revisit all the beaches where you built sandcastles in the sun, chances are, you’ll never even find a one. The constant pull of wash and wave reduces all the outposts where we once asserted so...
22 Touko 20252min

HYMN WE SING ( May 16, 2025)
It’s the most famous line ever written about grace by an author not recorded in God’s Word: “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.” Every week, around the globe, it’s sung ...
15 Touko 20252min

FOREVER JOY (May 09, 2025)
Savoring the creamy richness of delectable milk chocolate. Settling into the plush leather of a luxury car. Dangling your feet in the stunningly blue water of a South Pacific lagoon. What do these ver...
8 Touko 20252min

TO GRACIOUSLY RECEIVE (May 02, 2025)
What is it in our restless hearts that cannot graciously receive a gift? A friend invites us to a grand, delightful meal, and even before dessert is served, we’re busy evening the score. We fail to ta...
1 Touko 20252min

WELCOMING DISRUPTION (April 25, 2025)
What makes the light of Easter last long past the hymns and lilies? The ground beneath our feet has moved. The grim, unshaken certainties of loss and grief and toil and death have finally succumbed—an...
24 Huhti 20252min


















