Posts in category For the Heart

You do not need to be told to read your Bible anymore than you need to be told to exercise, get your sleep, eat more …

Serious Christians read theology. Insert the name of your favorite theologian here ____________. Maybe from time to time you dabble in some practical Christian living …

How do I know whether to marry this person or choose this or that career? Does God have desires about these decisions? Of course He …

Tara Westover’s Educated describes her Dad’s frenzied labour as a scrap worker extracting value from piles of rubbish. “Dad lived in fear of time. He …

God has baked patterns into our living that point beyond this life to him, to the ultimate rest we can celebrate forever, fully participating in life the way God originally designed it to be.

When reading through the first five books of the Old Testament, many of us find a significant portion of those chapters very hard to profit …

Algeria, 1901: Pen in hand, forty-seven-year-old missionary Lilias Trotter gazed out over the foothills of the Atlas mountains of northern Africa. A flash of yellow …

When I was 17 years old, I remember singing the words “I will go, Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in …

Because relationships are not optional for believers, and because conversation is critical for relationships, we can each grow within our limitations, real and perceived, to interact meaningfully with the people in our lives. And we must.

Turning 50 hit me hard. Somehow, it felt a lot different than turning 40. “Over the hill” felt pretty much the same as any other …