What pushes peace aside to make you fearful, stressed, or struggling? I’ve been thinking a lot about the peace Jesus promised in these days of Covid-19. We s...

And Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke 2:52 How do you grow wisdom or stature? How do you grow in favor with God and m...

Remember when you got in trouble as a child? Your parent said something like, “Do you remember what I told you? Why didn’t you do it?” Our childish minds w...

Worry is a pesky intruder that threatens to undermine everything God wants us to enjoy. Worry shows up when we are out of control, fearful, doubting ourselv...

Playing with I can’t is as dangerous as playing with fire. Can’t rehearses the wrong information. Can’t often sets up false boundaries. Can’t paralyzes, sh...

What Jesus does when you ask for His anything is more than you could think to ask. Find new hope in the sweet surrender to His unbounded res

Come with me to the edge of Jericho where Jesus had attracted a large crowd again. Most don’t see the furrowed brows of Jesus. He is just a few days away f...

Doubt can swarm like bees who have been disturbed. Doubt can tie us up in ways that make it difficult to move forward. Doubt unsettles. Where does doubt ta...

Jesus asked questions. He asked them of his listeners, his debaters, his disciples. They weren’t detours or delay tactics. They were issue oriented. They w...

Do you remember why we looked at key verses through Philippians? This was an exercise to take one to two verses that we could “listen” to for a week. I want...

Finally . . . rejoice in the Lord! . . . it is a safeguard for you. (Philippians 3:1) Take another look at joy, Paul says. What is it we haven’t understood? ...

How do we know when something is God’s will? This is where too many of us struggle with confusion. We carry a belief that God’s will is something remote and...

Where does your most important, soul-satisfying encouragement and comfort come from? Paul shares the most comprehensive summary of what it means to let the h...

Do you remember that childhood euphoria that made you feel you could do anything? Where did all that confidence go? When we are confident, the world is at o...

Does everything have to be in its right place and every situation a welcome gift for there to be joy? It’s easy to think that difficult situations make joy i...

How positive do you have to be to find joy? I don’t mean a little smile across the face. I mean the kind of joy that tickles up from your unmasked self, a b...

When you find your hunger, you can feed your hunger. Hunger sends us searching even when we don’t know what we want. It works the same way with hunger for sp...

Hunger finds me; I don’t have to go looking for it. Why isn’t it that way with a hunger for God and His Word? I can put a parade of inessentials ahead of go...

The will of God is my highest aim and most frustrating target. Even though I know God’s will is my best option in every choice, my own will battles to be hea...

I don’t know how I’m going to make it! is the scream I hear inside my head. It comes from hitting some energy or confidence wall. It doesn’t matter whether...