The Peace You Cannot Make — But Can ReceiveThere is perhaps no word more universally desired and yet more consistently elusive than peace. Organizations are built around it. Marches are held for it. B...  Read More

Pulled From the Pit: Understanding What God Did for Us Before We Ever Deserved ItThere is a moment in Psalm 40 that stops you cold if you let it sink in. The psalmist describes being lifted out of a h...  Read More

Heaven Is Not Boring: A Vision of the Glory That AwaitsThere is a lie that has quietly settled into the imagination of many people, believers and skeptics alike. It is the image of heaven as an endles...  Read More

The Weapon You Did Not Know You HadThere is something quietly devastating about memory. Not the good kind — the warm recollections of childhood summers or the faces of people we love — but the other k...  Read More

The Joy You Were Made For: Rediscovering What the World Has StolenThere is something quietly devastating happening in the lives of many believers today. It does not announce itself with a dramatic cri...  Read More

The Stolen Joy: Reclaiming What Was Always YoursThere is something quietly devastating about a life drained of joy. Not the dramatic, obvious collapse, but the slow, almost imperceptible fading of wha...  Read More

Our Complete God: Greatness, Power, Holiness, and MercyThere is a psalm in Scripture that the Jewish people have treasured so deeply that the Talmud instructs them to recite it twice in the morning an...  Read More

The Power of Reason: Praying Through Unreasonable PeopleThere is a prayer that does not get talked about enough. It is not the prayer for healing, not the prayer for provision, and not even the prayer...  Read More

Seeking What Is Above: A Call to Die to Self and Live in ChristThere is a phrase that carries more weight than we often give it credit for: "That is a big if." In Colossians 3:1, the apostle Paul open...  Read More

Let the Word Run Free: Why Prayer and the Gospel Cannot Be SeparatedThere is a moment in the ancient history of Israel that should stop every believer cold. Workers are renovating the temple in Jerusa...  Read More

The Great Commission: Our Marching Orders in Spiritual WarfareThe Christian life is not meant to be lived passively. We're not called to sit comfortably in our pews, content with our own salvation whi...  Read More

The Warrior's Mindset: Living with Purpose in Spiritual WarfareThere's a profound reality that many Christians today have forgotten: we are at war.Not a war fought with physical weapons or on earthly ...  Read More