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How to Defeat Shame

Not only were we crafted in His image, but He knew us entirely, and we knew Him. But after sin entered the world, something made us afraid. And not...

How to Defeat Shame

One Thing More Pastors and Leaders Must Admit

I have been in church my entire life. I started going to church around five years old and got saved when I was six. Since then, I have always been...

One Thing More Pastors and Leaders Must Admit

5 Tests to Discern if a Dream Is from God

God isn’t obligated to bankroll or bless any objective He doesn’t call us to do. Let’s make sure we don’t squander our resources to go after our...

5 Tests to Discern if a Dream Is from God

How to Maintain Our “Holiday Spirit” All Year Round

What if we decided that the holiday treatment we restrict to a season would become year-round? What would our communities, families, and lives look...

How to Maintain Our “Holiday Spirit” All Year Round

How Do We Make Marriage Last in Today’s Society?

Whereas society used to hold contempt and stigma towards divorce, now the process is common, normal, and expected. When? When you’ve had...

How Do We Make Marriage Last in Today’s Society?

What Is the Significance of Women Within Ministry?

You do not have to hold a microphone or have a public platform to have eternal significance. Look to Christ for your identity, and rest in God’s...

What Is the Significance of Women Within Ministry?

What Are We to Do When the Circumstances of Life Become Giants?

The overwhelming world is nothing compared to faith and trust in God. It is not by our own merit or what we can do; it is through the grace of God...

What Are We to Do When the Circumstances of Life Become Giants?

Why Do We Suffer if Jesus Lives in Our Hearts?

We are to prepare ourselves for suffering. It is not a matter of if we will face it, but when. Regardless of what we are dealing with throughout...

Why Do We Suffer if Jesus Lives in Our Hearts?

Jesus Understands the Sting of Rejection

Fully God, Jesus did not escape the rejection of also being fully man. He didn’t have to come to earth and experience all of the feels we trudge...

Jesus Understands the Sting of Rejection

Simply Christmas: Memorable but Minimal

But, as much as I enjoy setting out all the garland and twinkling lights, I wonder if all this striving to put up Christmas and outdoing ourselves...

Simply Christmas: Memorable but Minimal

4 Truths about the Power of Your Story

My testimony is not just for me, it's to be shared! Communicating what God has done in our lives is one of the most powerful ways to show Christ to...

4 Truths about the Power of Your Story

The One Indicator That It Is Time to Leave Your Church

Earlier this year, our family left the church we were in for the last four years to attend a different one. This got me thinking about what was at...

The One Indicator That It Is Time to Leave Your Church

4 Soul-Deep Steps to Dismantle Anxiety

Deep soul work requires feeling safe, and our hearts are never more secure than when they rest in God’s hand.

4 Soul-Deep Steps to Dismantle Anxiety

How Does the Message of Christmas Affect our Lives Today?

By meditating on our salvation, Jesus’ return, and His current work in the world, our perspective changes. Treasuring the promises of Christmas, we...

How Does the Message of Christmas Affect our Lives Today?

Is Christian Hope Just Wishful Thinking?

As Christians, we are called to be a force of hope in this world. The “God of hope” has produced hope in us so that hope may ooze out of all we say...

Is Christian Hope Just Wishful Thinking?

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