“Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.” – E. M. Bounds Not only is prayer a command to Christians (see Ephesians 6:18), but it is also a gift...
Questioning our faith feels unsettling and often exhausting. Doubt creeps in at first but can quickly become an overwhelming burden as we wrestle with questions like: Is God even good? Does He care about me? Is God really there? A crisis of any kind is marked by...
Every summer at the local pool, small kids jump gleefully towards the water yelling, “Daddy, catch me!” These children aren’t worrying about the potential consequences or wondering if their parent is really all that trustworthy. They just want to experience the...
“A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.” — Lysa Terkeurst In the first chapter of the Bible, God created humanity to “rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the...
Because the date of Easter moves each year, the holiday sometimes sneaks up on me. Instead of arriving to church ready to worship my risen Savior, I come with bags under my eyes because I’ve been up late putting together Easter baskets, cleaning for company, and...
