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Have you ever noticed that I Thessalonians is a lovely little epistle? Taking up a whopping three pages in my Bible, it's an encouraging...

A killer podcast called "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill" was recently recommended to me by a friend. If you haven't heard of it (I...

The benefit of being a hard-core introvert is that, by existing within the confines of my comfort zone for most of my teenage years, I've...

We're taught to meditate on the Word of God. Joshua 1:8 tells us to meditate therein day and night; Psalm 119:15 tells us to meditate in...

I think it would alarm me if I actually knew how much time I spend with my head down, watching the road ahead of me. On walks, I barely...

Maybe this goes without saying, but isn't negativity the worst? I mean, you're just rolling along, enjoying God's grace and goodness, and...

All right, y'all, who watched The Chosen Christmas Special on Sunday? If you did, please accept my fist bump through your computer...

Sometimes I feel like a Lost Girl. Like I took a wrong turn at the second star on the right and ended up a thousand miles from Neverland,...

trodden: walked on . . . crush[ed] or flatten[ed] with the feet . . . pressed down into the ground. (Google) Who's feeling pressed down...

Yesterday I turned the last page of C.S. Lewis', Miracles. Maybe it's an English major thing, but trudging through Lewis' spiritual...

I can't imagine a bleaker point in history than the days between Christ's death and resurrection. If I were with Cleopas and his fellow...

Good ol' I Corinthians 13. Short and sweet and sharp as a dagger. Love is patient, love is kind, love doesn't envy, think highly of...

When you stop to count them, a TON of spiritual traits boil down to good ol' fashioned acts of will. Prayerfulness. Forgiveness....

Some people have the gift of giving gifts. One of my O&Ds (oldest and dearest) has proved it time and time again, most recently when she...

Perspective is a gift. God knew we couldn't handle the full, grandiose scope of everything He's doing in our lives, so he gave us limited...

Life threw me for a loop this week, y'all. One minute I'm rolling along, feeling reasonably in-control of my routine, and the next I'm...

One thing I've been awful at since day one—discerning God's will when I don't know how to move forward. Especially in the publishing...

The 39 books of the Old Testament paint a picture of what C.S. Lewis calls the "hammering process—" centuries of God's hard-line training...

It's remarkably easy to give someone the impression that we care about them. We all know the proper protocol: paint our faces in the...

Jeremiah—what a book. I mean, really, what a story. Like so many of God's prophets, he was thrown into a role he felt ill-equipped for,...