Christian Living

4 Prayer Practices of World-Changing Leaders

How often do our prayers reflect personalized care, beginning and ending with gratitude?

What We Don’t Trust We Will Try to Control

Sometimes I catch myself mentally running into the future where I fear there is impending doom and then trying to make wise choices today to steer away from trouble as much as I can.

If You’re Waiting for God to Make Things Right

Constantly thinking about what God doesn’t seem to be doing — and about my desire for my version of justice to come about — can become a focus, which, over time, can become an obsession and, if left unattended, can become a stronghold for the enemy of my soul.

Discernment

We should speed up our listening and slow down our speech. And between those two activities, we are to carefully test our words.

When Is Waiting Hard?

Waiting for information creates a painful gap. It’s hard because understanding what is happening gives us a sense of control.

Putting on Your ‘Church Face’

We want a kind of love that sees us in our most vulnerable condition—soul-naked—and embraces us.

Recognize and Overcome One of the Enemy’s Greatest Weapons: Shame

For many of us, the voice of our inner critic is deafening, and quickly demeans our value or worth because of the pain we carry around from our past because of what we’ve done or what has been done to us.

The Timeless Whisper’s Been Here All Along

To a world on edge, defensive, and hurting, Christians have a responsibility to not only listen to God but also to speak Good News in a way that can actually be heard.

Generosity and Selflessness

It is really easy to give out of a surplus. That’s because the surplus is never something we truly need.

God’s Good Created Order

How is the Jesus of powerlessness, mercy, and forgiveness to be reconciled with the Jesus of justice and judgment?

How Did I Get Here?

These girls, these babies who had had just given birth, were nursing infants without their own mothers to teach or protect them. One thing was clear: no child chooses this, to be a mother at age eleven or thirteen.