The grand idea is one of Satan's greatest temptations to failure; you become so enraptured by the vision of what you want to do that you never actually think about how it is you're going to get there. [Click title to read more.]
Category: spirituality
What It Means To Age As A Christian
Life is not meant to be perpetual. Like a car, it starts showing signs of wear the minute we take it off the lot. And if this life were all there is, then that would be awful...but it isn't, and so it's not. [Click title to read more.]
Stop Caring So Much About Results
Sometimes you give your all and the results are nothing great. Nothing special. Sometimes actively awful. That doesn't always mean you're doing it wrong. [Click title to read more.]
The Price God Pays When We Bear His Name
You've misrepresented the kingdom. I have. We all have. Whether it was simply an off day or a deliberate decision, we've done things bearing the office of Christian faith that have embarrassed the God we worship. We have taken the Name we bear and we've dragged it through the mud. [Click title to read more.]
The Hunger Blessing Week 3 Now Available
We must make a gift to God of our presence. Let's talk about how to set aside a special consistent time - not for study, not for church activities, and not for spiritual self-benefit, but for God alone. [Click title to read more.]
How To Avoid The Trap of People-Pleasing
I suspect that a lot of Christians struggle with people-pleasing in general, since we often delude ourselves that many characteristics of people-pleasing are godly ones. The truth is, though, sometimes a preoccupation with people-pleasing can actually inhibit our spiritual growth. [Click title to read more.]
False Starts And Faith
It's embarrassing to realize that I trust the cycle of the seasons a good deal more than I trust God. Maybe most of us do. [Click title to read more.]
The Hunger Blessing Week 2 Now Available
Odds are, what we perceive as "intimacy" with God...isn't. We have a way of watering down our relationship with Him, reducing our interaction with the divine into something passive or self-serving. [Click title to read more.]
Honoring The Past Without Idolizing It
If we value the past more than the present - if we perceive the best part of our lives as having come and gone - we run the risk of always trying to return to it rather than growing and living and being. [Click title to read more.]
You Are A Story You’ve Never Dreamed Of
God also knows all of our possibilities and strengths and what we have the capacity to do. More than we do, God has the vision of who exactly we are meant to be, what we might be like when we're everything He created us for. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 