Looking for the Lightning Bolt

We're encouraged to look for lightning bolts, but we're never looking where we should. [Click title to read more.]

When All You Hear Is Silence

There is a point in the life of every believer where everything is going wrong, on fire, or is absolutely confusing and shattering and - worst of all - you cannot sense God in any of it. [Click title to read more.]

What Exists In Abundance We Must Not Consider Common

It's tempting to take God's love and mercy for granted because it comes to us with such abundance. [Click title to read more.]

I’m Fine With What I Don’t Know

I can't logically prove every foundation of my faith true; if I could, I'd be able to invent it myself, and I'd have no need for God. God's love, God's providence, God's promises: I trust those things not because my intellect has determined for me that they are certain, but because I believe that what God has said is true. [Click title to read more.]

The Hawk In My Yard: Or, Why Some People Struggle To Believe

It's at times like these that I understand why some people struggle to believe the Bible, and to believe God. I don't think it's just because of innate skepticism or because they can't bring themselves to believe in what they perceive to be myths; I think they're afraid it's too good to be true. [Click title to read more.]

He Cares For You

I wrote this post last week, in the middle of my vacation, due to an unexpected turn of events that occurred. I didn't post it at the time for various reasons, but I saved it to post when I returned in hopes that it would encourage someone who needed it. [Click title to read more.]

What You Can’t Imagine

There are endless, endless beauties, even in this sad and fallen world. [Click title to read more.]

Is A Little Enough?

I struggle with only knowing a little. Especially lately. Convinced that God is working out a grand plan for my life, I am nonetheless enormously frustrated that I can only see one tiny corner of it. The rest of the picture is obscured from view. And frankly, I grow resentful from time to time. [Click title to read more.]

Don’t Resign Yourself To A Miracle-Less Life

God will still do marvels and great and miraculous works where He is asked and - more importantly - where He is given space to do it. [Click title to read more.]

We All Want To Be Peters, But Maybe We’re Nathanaels

You don't have to be a Peter. You don't have to have a splashy story full of betrayal and impulsivity and ups and downs to matter to Jesus. [Click title to read more.]