God Gives a New Song: Hope for Anyone Struggling With Depression and Despair
“I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth—Praise to our God; many will […]
The Eternal Value of Souls: People Matter More Than Productivity
“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.” (Proverbs 11:30) I’ve started asking the Lord something specific every morning: “Open my eyes to what’s really important today.” Because if I don’t ask this, I default to my schedule. I default to the physical urgency of the […]
Arise: You Don’t Have to Be Somebody Great to Do Something Mighty
“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.” (Zechariah 4:6) I sat in my car in the parking lot after a meeting, replaying the conversation I’d just had with a client. I spent weeks building his case, and even though I’d explained more than once that our legal […]
How Being An Advocate Revealed the Way God Advocates for Me
It isn’t uncommon as an attorney, to go to bat hard for a client I believe should get a second chance. Someone with a record that doesn’t look good on paper, someone the system has all but written off, someone everyone else has already decided isn’t worth the effort. I’ve gone to the well more […]
Pamela Did Not Finish—And That Was the Point
“But I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel, so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ; and most of the brethren in the Lord, having […]
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 […]
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 […]