God’s Desires: How to know God’s will in difficult decisions.
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 …
God, the Lord of Time
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 …
The Rest You Cannot Earn
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.
15 Devotional Gleanings from Reading the Old Testament Law
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 …
Beautiful Formation…but Perilous
Ice storms are unusual in my sliver of the United States. So the arrival of a “historic ice storm” this past month caused quite a …
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus: Old Lyrics with Timeless Truths
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 …
On the Public (and Passionate) Reading of Scripture
“Our Scripture reading today is from Galatians 1:6–10,” the deacon behind the pulpit mumbled. Even as the pages rustled, the minds of the congregation wandered. …
New Season, New Surrender
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 …
Developing A Parish Ministry Mindset
When Baxter arrived, there were streets where only one family would worship the Lord on Sunday. When he left, there were streets where not one …
You Can Learn to be a Conversationalist
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.