Appearances are a sham, and Jesus knows it. He is not interested in our pretty leaves, he wants to know what’s happening on the inside. Is our root system mature enough to reach down deep and find the water we need to be fruitful?
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To the Parched Soul: Living Water is Waiting for You
If you and I can train our spiritual senses to sniff out the presence of God in the midst of soul-deep dehydration, our lives will be restored. Like a new seedling. Ready to truly live again.
Three Life-Changing Ways to Ring in the New Year
Things don’t change just because a new year begins. Things change because we begin. We begin to take God at his word and live like his promises are true for our lives.
Advent: You Have Permission to Be Happy Four Keys to Unlocking Joy at Christmas
Somehow, Christmas seems to dredge up all the unChristmasness in the world. All the sadness. All the angst. All the heartache. Christmas season is a melancholy magnet. Over the past month, I’ve seen more articles floating around about depression and anxiety than any other time […]
Advent: The Problem With “Peace on Earth”
Jesus didn’t come to establish world peace.
This may come as a surprise, but Jesus never promised this. Any claim that he did is a misleading overreach that does no one any good.
Advent: Dealing With the Dilemma of Hope
It’s the first week of Advent, a season of anticipation as we look forward to Christmas. Each week highlights a different virtue that Christmas should instill in our hearts: hope, peace, love, and joy. But there is a dilemma here. One that I feel acutely […]
Idols: The High Cost of Chasing Cheap Things
We are grasping for tiny false gods to meet the God-sized needs in our souls. In my experience, the human soul’s deep yearning for God boils down to three needs: LOVE, DIRECTION, APPROVAL.
3 Generational Curses We Don’t Talk About
Eight generations of people were already on the earth before anyone began to seek God. Eight generations. That’s you, your great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, and everyone in between. The furthest I can reach is to my maternal great-great-grandmother before our history is violently interrupted by slavery and the […]
Forsaking Fig Leaves — On Sin and Creativity
There is no question that we were created to create. To reflect God’s creative power and wisdom. Speaking life and justice and truth into the world through our words. Expressing love and beauty through the work of our hands. We are engineers. We are medical […]