Pray Without Ceasing: Conversations with God
“Pray without ceasing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:17 “Be anxious for nothing, but in EVERYTHING by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.” Philippians 4:6 I’ll be honest with you. Prayer is one of the most powerful weapons I have—and one of the first things I neglect. And I know better. […]
Setting the Pace
“Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.” 1 Corinthians 11:1 In the world of running, good pacers are considered highly valuable and deeply sought after. Why? Because these people are experts in their sport and selfless servants who are completely set on helping someone else complete a race—at the expense of their own time […]
Repentance: The Priceless Gift that Takes Us from Misery to Refreshing
I have been in a wrestling match with myself for longer than I care to admit. There are areas of my life—habits and patterns—that I know need to change. I have confessed them. I have surrendered them. And then, more times than I can count, I have picked them right back up again. And every […]
When Words Aren’t Enough
Little C continues to make progress, and it is so encouraging to see her developing and growing! For those who don’t know, C is my daughter—a medically complex little girl who has already pushed through more challenges in her young life than most will face in a lifetime. God continues to do miracles; but perhaps […]
What Your Enemy Does Not Want You to Know
The devil will do anything to keep us from discovering the one thing that gives us the most satisfying, most purposeful, most deeply joyful life we could ever live. And he launched this great deception in the Garden. My friend, we have a real enemy and he’s not a cartoon figure with a pitchfork. According […]
Did God Choose Some for Heaven and Some for Hell?
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9 There is a pervasive and dangerous misunderstanding about election; that is, the idea that God, before the […]
Freedom: A Biblical Vision for America’s 250th Birthday
“Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” John 8:36 Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of imperfect but remarkably courageous men signed their names to a document declaring that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights—among them life, liberty, and the […]
The Trinity’s Personal Invitation to The Great Dance
“In Christianity God is not a static thing but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of dance. The Father eternally begets the Son; the Son eternally exists in the Father; and the Holy Ghost is the eternal love and life flowing between them…The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal […]
How Do You Know if You Have Quenched the Holy Spirit?
If you read our Come Meet the Holy Spirit devotional in June—or if you caught the podcast episode my dad and I recorded on this topic—you know we traced Him from the dark, formless waters of Genesis 1, where He hovered with watchful, brooding care over a world not yet spoken into existence. We saw […]
The Shepherd Who Never Fails: Trusting God When Christian Leaders Let Us Down
We have been receiving a lot of questions from our daily devotionals and podcasts, and we’re doing our best to answer them all! What a blessing! The most recent is from the devotional, What Happens When a Christian Commits a Major Sin? A reader wrote: “Thanks, Kimberly, for that—because recently, my pastor told his congregation […]