A Prayer for When Someone You Love Walks Away from Their Faith

There are two primary reasons we fail to grow in our understanding of God: pride and deceit. And the almost immediate internal response to reading that — "no, I don't think that's true of me" — is its...

23 Jul 0s

Sometimes discouragement arrives with a long list of justifications. And sometimes it settles in for no obvious reason at all, quietly smothering the smiles that should be there, draining the joy that...

22 Jul 0s

After thousands of years of biblical wisdom available to us, humans are still stressing over whether there is any peace to be found in the daily struggle to survive and thrive. We overfill our lives w...

21 Jul 0s

Waking up in a recovery room twelve hours after a surgery that was supposed to take six to eight, with a foggy brain and a numb body and the immediate awareness that something must have gone wrong — a...

20 Jul 7min

Most of us prefer the path to be direct and short. When life requires a longer route — application after application with no offer, a caregiving season that stretches on without relief, a waiting peri...

19 Jul 6min

Little Mary was certain she would play Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the Sunday school play. Her name was Mary. She knew the whole story. And when her teacher announced she would play Elizabeth instea...

18 Jul 6min

When James wrote his letter to the twelve scattered tribes, the first Christians were being driven into poverty and hunger. They were not facing mild inconvenience — they were grappling to survive. An...

17 Jul 6min

The tension hadn't lifted. The problem hadn't changed. And yet a mother reached out, gathered her daughters' hands, and started to sing — smiling, dancing, filling the anger-stricken air with words ab...

16 Jul 7min