How Desperation Teaches Us to Trust To be brought to a place where God is our only real hope is a merciful experience. But I don’t say that lightly. Because almost always it’s also a desperate experience. Some external circumstance, or internal crisis, forces us into a place where our[…]

How do you feel when you hear the command to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17)? Those three words can feel like a flunking grade to a tender conscience. The vague fear that we are failing the Christian life has once again been confirmed. Others of us struggle to[…]

We learn to pray in Jesus’s name. What a gift. Praying in his name is a reality simple enough for a child to acknowledge, and yet profound enough to keep saints in awe for eternity. Like learning to sing “Jesus Loves Me.”And of course, when we teach young children[…]

My Soul longs for You Pursuing Joy in Every Prayer “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.” If that is true, then prayer, like everything else we do (1 Corinthians 10:31), is first and foremost a pursuit of our satisfaction in God. Unlike everything else we do, though, prayer[…]

Is there any single habit more important than getting your soul regularly within earshot of God? Right there with the basic natural habits we cannot avoid — breathing, eating, sleeping — one supernatural habit stands at the fountainhead of all others for our spiritual life and health and growth[…]

Article by Marshall Segal They feared they were about to drown. Had I been in their shoes, ankle deep and rising in water, feeling their boat give way to an angry storm, I probably would have begun to think of loved ones, of the goodbyes I’d never hear. “Teacher, do[…]

I see among Christians that we ought to view the Old Testament as Christian Scripture, but we’re not quite sure why or how. A simple framework will work to reveal how Christ is at the heart of the Scriptures: he is patterned, promised, and present from Genesis onward. Christ Patterned The flood[…]

by Marshall Segal,  Of all the wonders in the world — the steepest mountains, the grandest canyons, the widest oceans — none compares with the Son sent from heaven. If we think we have seen the full extent of who he is, we are deceived. We cannot fathom just[…]

God’s self revelation One of the most significant events as revealed in Exodus 3 is God revelation of His majestic magnificence of His character. It is a magnificence that contains two glorious truths, inextricably linked, without which the Christian God cannot be understood or worshiped. As important as the[…]

When We’re Blindsided by Tragedy Article by Jon Bloom “It really doesn’t make sense and feels like it can’t be true.” Another suicide. The friend that texted me had a good friend, a Christian whose faith by all appearances was authentic and vibrant, who succumbed to an incomprehensible darkness and incommunicable[…]