Christ

Known and Loved: No Masks Needed

Scripture Focus: “[Love] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.” —1 Corinthians 13:7 It’s hard to imagine a life completely free from shame, embarrassment, and that awkward little inner critic that seems to keep detailed records. We cringe at things we’ve said, choices we’ve made, weaknesses we wish weren’t there,…
Car Alarms and the Gift of Discernment

Scripture: “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” -1 Thessalonians 5:21 Car alarms are fascinating because they always seem most passionate when absolutely nothing is happening. A leaf falls. A truck drives by. A strong breeze clears its throat. Suddenly, there’s a vehicle somewhere nearby screaming like it has seen the four horsemen…
Holding On Through the Storms

Scripture Focus: “Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it…” —Song of Solomon 8:7 Real love is not a paper umbrella in a thunderstorm. It’s not the kind of thing that collapses the moment the wind picks up or life starts throwing sideways rain. Scripture describes true love as something stronger than…
The Risk and Reward of Fearless Love

Scripture Focus: “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend… what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge…” —Ephesians 3:17–19 Love is often spoken of as something gentle and…
Growing Faith

Scripture Focus: 2 Peter 1:5-8 “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that…
The Quiet Law of Diligence

Proverbs 21:5 reveals a quiet law of life that operates both materially and spiritually. It tells us that what happens outwardly is often the visible result of what’s been happening inwardly for a long time. “The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.” Notice…
The Quiet Power of Choice

Our victories and failures, our joys and sorrows, the rises and the falls of our lives are all connected, in one way or another, to the choices we make. Life is not built in a single moment, but in thousands of small decisions, many so ordinary we barely notice them. The direction of our family…
The Treasure No One Sees at First

There’s a question that lives quietly beneath many lives. It rarely announces itself, but you can see it flicker behind people’s eyes if you look long enough. It asks, Do I matter… really? Not when I’m strong or useful or admired, but when I’m weak, overlooked, or quietly carrying the weight of things no one…
Love in Its Truest Form

Love is not the spark alone,Not roses laid at twilight’s door,Not whispered words that fade by noon,Or hearts sketched lightly on a shore. Love is not the pulse of thrillThat races bright, then settles low.It is the quiet, steadfast willTo stay when lesser feelings go. It is the lamp in storm-tossed air,The hand that does…
Grace That Teaches Us How to Live

Scripture Focus: Titus 2:11–12 “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;” There’s a quiet misunderstanding that sometimes slips into our thinking—that grace is only the doorway into faith, and once…