Christian Living

4 Prayer Practices of World-Changing Leaders to Inspire Your Prayer Rhythms

How often do our prayers reflect personalized care, beginning and ending with gratitude, guided by the Prayer practices of world-changing leaders to inspire your daily rhythms?

What We Don’t Trust: Trust and Control in Everyday Life

This piece explores how trust and control shape our peace, and how surrender can quiet anxious forecasting.

Waiting on God’s Justice

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. Waiting on God's justice can shape how I weather unfair situations and cling to faith when it feels delayed.

Love Is Not a Mirror

How can we know what Love Is Not a Mirror means in our lives when we’re acting like we know ourselves? But if we don’t know ourselves, where would we begin?

The Healing Power of Forgiveness in Everyday Life

When we choose to forgive, we let go of our right to get even and we allow God to take over. We let go of our bitterness. We let go of our resentment. The healing power of forgiveness opens the path to peace

What Is Gratitude, Really?

What Is Gratitude? Gratitude is not just a periodic sense of being blessed and indebted. Grateful people are inclined to feel gratitude most of the time.

Anxiety Isn’t for the Birds

The care of God for his creation, such as the birds, is an expression of pure grace. Anxiety Isn't for the Birds: God’s provision is more like a gift than a paycheck.

What the Lord’s Supper and your body Teaches You

The Lord's Supper and your body teaches us that we cannot “use” our bodies however we want. Our bodies belong to the Lord, and they are meant for his service.

Power Prayers

Power Prayers offer a prayer of connection that places us in a cooperative friendship with God, working with him to bring good into this world—even into our own souls.

Living the Good Life

Jesus doesn’t mince words as he changes the conversation from living the good life according to moral laws and beliefs to doing everything from the context of God’s love—from a place of deep relationship with him.

Brokenness Is Not Weakness

It is hard to be overwhelmed by grace, realizing brokenness is not weakness and you’ve convinced yourself you don’t need it.