I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints. (Ps. 52:9)
He said to them, If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. Mark 8:34
He fell facedown and prayed, My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will. Matthew 26:39
God’s mercy is new every morning, and, like manna in the wilderness, He apportions it according to our need.
God’s mercy does not make sin tolerable; it makes sin forgivable. The proud and the depraved alike must kneel at the same feet for mercy. For those willing, God turns sin’s empty cistern into a deep w...
God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.
Dim vision ages us rapidly, and we lose the childlikeness that once made us feel like real princes and princesses in a kingdom. We can be young and yet feel old. Heavy laden. Burdened. In a pit where...
Authentic faith cannot help but act.
After the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, Shout! For the LORD has given you the city. Joshua 6:16
Victory is not determined as much by what we’ve been delivered from as by what we’ve been delivered to.
You may be going through a confusing time. You may not know how God is going to use a situation in your life or why certain things have happened to you. But you can be encouraged and strengthened by r...
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives (Genesis 50:20).
You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But I will rebuke you and lay out the case before you. Psalm 50:21
You are My witnesses, declares the Lord, that I am God. Yes, and from ancient days I am he. Isaiah 43:12–13 (NIV) When she was in second grade, my daughter Amanda illustrated a truth about the central...
Why does God allow us to spend so much of life in the heart of battle? Because He never meant for us to sip His Spirit like a proper cup of tea. He meant for us to hold our sweating hands over the fou...
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. (Psalm 42:5)
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him...
We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.
We pitch our tents of brick on the tremulous soil of a dark, scary world.
We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.