What is your soul longing for today? Are you going through life panting—trying to find streams that will quench your thirst but ending up unsatisfied and at a dead-end road? So many times, we are tempted to try to fix our souls by doing external things like eating, shopping, scrolling on social media, talking with…
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue . . . ” warns Proverbs 18:21. Have you ever been on the receiving end of life-giving words? Then, at other times, has something cruel or unkind been spoken to you, where the words lodged in your brain, bringing you sorrow each time you recalled…
Jesus says anyone can follow him. Anyone who is young, old, male, female, no matter what sins we have committed—anyone and everyone is invited to follow Jesus. Choosing to follow him means that he is at the lead. We come after him. We can’t choose our own path or go our own way. We walk…
In Galatians 1:10, the Apostle Paul poses an important question, that’s still relevant for us today: “Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.” Hold up!…
In Isaiah 6, we get a glimpse of the throne room of God! King Uzziah had died and Isaiah entered the temple and he saw a very different king. He saw the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords on his throne high and lifted up and the train of his robe filled the…
Sometimes late at night, when I am struggling to sleep, I read a book on my Kindle. No matter how many times I’ve done it, as I open the e-reader, the light is always a bit startling at first. It isn’t a bright light, but it doesn’t have to be. Even just the soft glow…
At the beginning of Paul’s letter to the Galatian church, we find him concerned about the church’s ability to discern the true gospel from a counterfeit one that was circulating. Just what was this “different” gospel? While the original recipients of the letter may have understood what the apostle was talking about, to our modern…
There is no hour like the early morning hour to meet with God. Oftentimes we put off meeting with God until later in the day, but then our to-do list takes over and all day long we are chasing that quiet moment that does not exist. God does not want us chasing temporary things that…
When my four kids were little, I felt like I was just doing my best to keep all the things together. One night I remember my son, Noah, dropping a small box of hard gumballs, and they all scattered across the hardwood floor, going this way and that. At that moment, I realized that my…
In Acts 7, we see Stephen recounting before the Sanhedrin in chronological order God’s dealings with the nation of Israel. He speaks of Moses and Joseph and the way Israel rejected the leaders God had chosen. His speech comes to a climax when he talks about the ultimate rejection of Jesus in Acts 7:52. He…