In The Cost of Discipleship Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that discipleship is simply the reception of grace. Discipleship, the process of...

Proverbs 4:23 exhorts us to watch over our own hearts with care because everything we do flows from that. As part of this watching over...

Some years ago, I was asking the Lord about some very gifted people I knew who seemingly had dropped out of church life. They had once...

Sometimes we are preoccupied with re-thinking past decisions and old conversations, looking within ourselves for answers, imagining how...

In Exodus 14 and 15 we read of the parting of the Red Sea, the Israelites passing over to dry ground, and the death of Pharoah’s army....

For several months I’d been praying for wisdom over a particular need. Sounds like a great thing to do, right? One day I was praying in...

Last spring my 8 year-old grandson Sam was helping me pull up weeds in my flower beds (a bane of my existence!). His 2 year-old brother...

Wouldn’t we love to go through life without encountering obstacles? Sometimes they come so unexpectedly, so painfully, and upset our...

Are you naming your future from faith or from regret? Regret is common to us all, but it can disable our future by locking us into the...

Although born an Israelite, Moses grew up in Pharaoh’s household, having been rescued from the waters of the Nile as a baby. Once grown,...

He is the God who is near. And his nearness is our good (Ps. 73:28). When our heart is broken and our “sorrow is beyond healing” (Jer....

2 Kings 5 tells the story of Naaman, valiant commander of the Syrian army, who was stricken with leprosy. At the urging of a little...

Theologians use a term called “prevenient love” as a characteristic of God’s heart. “Pre” means “before” so his love is “occurring or...

Our Father is so ready to turn our sorrows and sufferings into good, to bring beauty from the ashes of the past. Healing from...

The prophetic words of Isaiah declared that a Savior would come and take up our infirmities (Matt. 8:17). The Greek word for infirmity...

“Spirit can be known only by spirit – God’s Spirit and our spirits in open communion. Spiritually alive, we have access to everything...

In Exodus 3 on the far side of the wilderness, a bush was burning but not consumed. Moses, noticing it, said “I must turn aside to...

We live from season to season. In nature winter becomes spring, then summer and autumn. The changing seasons speak to us of God’s...

During our lifetime, we will encounter stormy seas. Isaiah wrote (43:2ff): “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you and...