The holiday season can bring new stresses, trials, and conflicts. How can we experience God’s blessing even when we’re in the middle of trying times?
If you knew your time on earth was short, what would you do? Go see the Great Wall of China? Surf Teahupoʻo? In Peter’s mind, knowing our time is short…
What are you passionate about in life? When you have a radical encounter with the grace of Jesus, it might change a few of your passions.
As life-coaches say, "If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.” So what are you aiming for in life? Many people are just trying to make it through…
We all like the idea of being reborn. Maybe you love to surf, and after you’ve been in the water you feel reborn. Or maybe after a few hours at…
Where do your eyes turn when you’re going through a tough time in life? Probably inward. We usually turn self-focused and self-aware when life is hard. But when Peter wrote…
What if God gave you a card that you could redeem for one person’s salvation? Who would you choose? Jesus is always seeking one more lost person, just like the…
God has amazing compassion toward our neighbors, coworkers, and family members. Why is it so hard for us to extend the same kind of compassion, especially toward people who aren’t…
Everyone experiences hinge moments that change the course of your life. The day you moved out of your parents’ house. The day you got married. The day you had your…
We all need to be saved from something. From suffering, from conflict, from self-destructive habits, from our sin. Jonah cried out to God for salvation from the belly of a…
God is always on the move, bringing his truth, power, and grace to new people. He’s calling us to join him in his mission, but so often he first needs…
We all love the idea of having friends. The problem is, we don’t actually have friends. We might have work-friends or social-media followers, but sociologists say our culture is in…
Your cat can hear better than you and your dog can smell better than you. But no other animal in creation can speak like you. Communication is one of the…
Our relationship with money? It’s complicated. Some of us idolize it. Others feel guilty for having it. But God created wealth, so he wants us to build it, enjoy it,…
Many people are just surviving at work, but what does it take to start thriving at work? How can we choose work we’ll love, and love our work even if…
How do you make big decisions in life? Do you just see what gives you most peace? Or ask God for a sign? Or do you just do something and…
You don’t need to hate God to derail your life. You just need to be fine with how you are right now. God designed us to be constantly stretching and…
We’re all looking for strategies to optimize our daily lives. But fitness-hacks and housekeeping-hacks can only take us so far. We need life-hacks that can optimize our friendships, careers, marriages,…
There’s a secret piece of information. If you know it, your life will be transformed. If you don’t, your life might be destroyed. It’s the secret to finding contentment, and…
We think we'll gain happiness by gaining things. Money and possessions. Epic experiences and vacations. Status and respect. A perfect family. Then we come to the book of Philippians and…