Why do some of us clearly understand what God is saying to us, while others don't? Why is God so real to one, and yet not to another? This is not a casual intellectual exercise for me; it is the anguish of my life, driving me to pound on heaven's...
Our best practice for life’s big storms is to find God's way in the little storms, which are constantly coming. I've just weathered one, and getting to the other side with as little collateral damage as possible, struggling to find God's way, has better prepared...
My passionate desire--for myself, and for you--is an ever-deepening awareness of how God is speaking to us. In small and large ways God orchestrates circumstances to bring about parallel events that will speak to us. When these take place--and we recognize them--God breaks through to...
Storms come. And no matter how little or how much warning we have, once they hit, we are stripped of control, finding ourselves at their mercy, holding on for dear life for as long as they last, having no way of knowing what depths we...
It was a moment of sunlight burning through, penetrating her heart. She was a leftist lesbian professor, loathing Christianity and fiercely protective of her LGBT community. She was the most unlikely of converts. But when the question came, she paused . . . haunted, wanting...
It stinks. All of us have been there, and all of us dread going there, because it is where we are going to struggle. It is where we are in danger of losing our way, losing our grip, coming closer to giving up than any...
If we better understood the danger of the lies we believe, we would do everything in our power to be rid of them. Deception is like a high tide, whose water conceals the rocks that will destroy our ship . . . if the deceiver...
Over the past several months, I’ve paused from writing, taking time to reflect and reassess the purpose of this blog. During this time of deep study, I’ve been gripped by what God has taught me . . . timely truth that could not be more...
We make a grave error, if we think that the new creation God has made possible will automatically become ours. We gain our inheritance only as we engage in a battle of putting to death whatever is keeping the new nature from being revealed in...
Have you ever cupped the wrinkled face of an elderly woman in your hands . . . someone who has forgotten her children’s names and the man who once shared her life, to summon forth the one who still lives and remembers on the other...