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When God Teaches a Proud Heart to Bow: A Study in Daniel 4

There is a reason Daniel 4 reads like no other chapter in Scripture. It is the testimony of a once-pagan king who learned—through a long, humiliating wilderness—that the Most High truly reigns. His own words summarize the lesson: “those that walk in pride he is able to abase” (Daniel 4:37). If the great monarch of…
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…
Where Thankfulness Hides

Gratitude is sometimes a shadow—a thin line drawn where lightmeets the edge of something we do not choose. It waits in odd places:in the hush between heartbeats,in the bruise-colored hourbefore dawn remembers its name,in the hollow where our questions echo. It is not loud.Not certain.Not easily held. It rises like a small, stubborn flamecupped in…
Thanksgiving and the Sacrifice of Gratitude

If you look around this time of year, it almost feels like Thanksgiving is getting smaller. Store shelves leap from skeletons to snowmen, from cobwebs to candy canes, and somewhere in the middle there’s this quiet little day about gratitude that can easily get squeezed out. No costumes, no glittering lights, no marketing mascot to…
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…
When the Sky Breaks Open

Inspired by Luke 21:36 “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” Watch—for the shadows grow long,and the air hums with the tremor of things unseen.The earth shifts underfoot,and the nations hold their…
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.…