In the movie The Princess Diaries, San Francisco teenager Mia Thermopolis tells her grandmother, “My expectation in life is to be invisible. And I’m good at it.”…
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Seeing God’s Greater Purpose at your Pool of Siloam
Do you ever struggle with knowing your purpose?…
When You Go Through Hell, Keep Walking
If you haven’t heard country music composer Rodney Atkins’ 2011 song to that effect, seventy-three years earlier, Winston Churchill reportedly said the same thing. He reinforced it in his now-immortal speech, “We shall fight on the seas and oceans … we shall fight in the fields and in the streets … we shall never surrender.”…
How to Regain your Roar
Do you know anyone who hasn’t been afflicted with hardship in the past fifteen months?…
How to Survive a Joy Crash
You’ve had a sugar crash, right? Waaay too much birthday cake or noshing at the state fair. It’s not much different with a joy crash—that nosedive from unshakable confidence in God’s sovereignty to discouragement or despair….
When God Smacks You on the Shoulder
I don’t do 5 a.m. well….
Jesus’ Week on the Mount of Olives: Seeing What Matters
Virtually everyone has seen a backlit portrait of Jesus praying the night He was betrayed. But this Easter, as I read about His last week of His earthly life, something jumped out at me that I hadn’t noticed before. “Every day Jesus taught at the temple, but every evening He went out to spend the night on the Mount of Olives” (Luke 21:37, BSB, emphasis mine)….
The Price of Sparrows and the Tomb
This week I woke up to bird song—a sure sign spring is here. It reminds me of Jesus talking about sparrows in Matthew 10:29 and Luke 12:6….
Moles, King Zedekiah, and Self-Sufficiency
What do self-sufficiency and Whack-a-Mole have in common? Another problem pops up just when you think you’ve beat it….
What Else I Learned about Self-sufficiency
Self-sufficiency is society’s default modus operandi, isn’t it? By nature or nurture, we seem wired to live that model. Yet the Bible tells us to do otherwise….
