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Where the Empty Places Shine

There are distances the map can’t measure— those long, invisible miles between one heartbeat and another. Sometimes they open like canyons cut by disappointment, sometimes like frost on a window no one meant to close. Illness can hush a room, silencing the familiar footsteps; discord can turn a family tree into winter branches, each twig…
The Discipline of Discipleship: Learning to Run With Purpose

If you could sit across from Paul for a quiet conversation and ask, “What does it really mean to follow Jesus?” I suspect he wouldn’t only talk about faith and grace—he’d also talk about training. He’d point to the race, the fight, the lifelong discipline that shapes a disciple. “I therefore so run, not as…
Seven Ways God Quietly Grows Your Faith

Scripture says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). Faith isn’t a spiritual accessory; it’s the channel through which we receive everything Heaven longs to give. Without it, we are stuck outside the door of God’s promises. The Bible is very…
The Real Dilemma of Our Age—And the Hope That Still Holds Us

People today live with a strange mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar. The old landmarks of human experience still stand—birth, love, loss, joy, sorrow, choices, and consequences. These things have shaped every generation since Adam drew his first breath. “There is no new thing under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9), and in many ways the…
Fitly Spoken: Learning the Language of Grace

Scripture Focus: Proverbs 25:11“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” Have you ever had one of those days when you replay a conversation in your mind and think, Why did I say it like that? It might’ve been a sharp reply to a family member, a sigh that sounded…
The Way Out Is Not Where You Think

There are days when the mind feels like a locked roomwith no windows—just echoes,shadows,and the long, dull hum of thoughtsthat refuse to grow quiet. You reach for joy,but it slips like water through clenched fingers.You reach for strength,but the cupboard of your soul sits emptied,its shelves coated with the dust of unanswered prayers. Depression calls…
When Words Fall Short

Scripture Focus: Job 2:13“So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.” Have you ever watched someone you care about walk through a kind of pain you cannot fix? You can’t unsay the cruel…
You Must Bend Before You Bloom

Scripture Focus: John 15:5“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” There’s a quiet struggle in many of our hearts—the pull between wanting to grow and wanting to stay exactly as we are.…
Made for More

Scripture Focus: 2 Corinthians 5:17“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Before the butterfly takes flight in a burst of color and grace, it begins as something much simpler—slow, grounded, and far from glamorous. A little like how many…
Lies We Tell Ourselves & Love That Tells the Truth

Scripture Focus: Hosea 10:13“Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.” Life can get strange sometimes. One moment we’re feeling centered, steady, and spiritually clear—and the next we’re tangled in frustration, insecurity, and/or expectations…