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God's was the first voice I heard when I woke up this morning. He didn't speak through words, but He was among the first thoughts in my...

God is so much bigger than I've always known, and He's beginning to show Himself to me in ways I hadn't imagined before. I and people in...

Earlier this week, I blogged about the inevitable reality that life is pain, and that we have only two options in that regard: to suffer,...

I don't know where it came from—ask my family, and they won't know either—but growing up has always been a terrifying concept to me....

Prayer works. Not always in the ways we expect, not always in the cookie-cutter outcomes we may look for, but God and His Holy Spirit are co

To indulge, by definition, is to "allow oneself to enjoy the pleasure of" something. And it really can be anything. We tend to think of...

We already know that getting through this life with our faith intact means eternal life, joy, and ecstasy in heaven. But God doesn't just da

Peace comes from Christ. It's not something we can manufacture for ourselves, though we still must be proactive and cooperative with God's w

I've been reading through the book of Acts, and while it's impossible not to be inspired by the passion of the first Christians, I've...

When time slows down, it gives us a breath to slow down with it and savour our circumstances. To look at the little things and see what...

Jesus ... can take the tattered scraps of truth we brought to that flopped conversation, and use them to plant a seed in that person ...

Failure is one of the most unpleasant phenomenons to grip our world since Adam and Eve's fall in the Garden of Eden. Whether magnanimous...

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them...

Sometimes answers come slowly, through doubt, like an ice-blurred windowpane that melts into clarity one steady droplet at a time. We...

I feel a bit like an alien. Not all the time, not every day, but some days and in some circumstances, it's true. In the times when...

By faith, Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out,...

In my Writer's Craft course, we've recently plunged into the poignant, elaborate, and at times frustratingly abstract realm of poetry. It...

“Now, Son of man, I am making you a watchman for the people of Israel. Therefore, listen to what I say and warn them from me.” ~Ezekiel...

Sometimes when the hectic pace of life kicks up a notch, it's the most fundamental things that get abandoned first. Take cleaning for...

Jeremiah 28—a verbal showdown between the prophet Jeremiah and false prophet Hananiah son of Azur. I'm sure Jeremiah had constant...