Praying Our Part: Practicing Pleasing Prayer
What if we’re seeing prayer mostly backwards? What if the main point of prayer is to get our attention?
God calls us to pray, and offers a junior partnership role. So we best know how He expects us to partner up in prayer.
Hallowed Name: Balancing Honor and Fear
God has given us His good name, and left us in charge of hallowing it in the eyes of our world.
Heavenly Father: Balancing Authority and Intimacy
If we don’t balance our Heavenly Father’s intimacy and authority, we’ll see Him as either an indulgent uncle or a harsh, intolerant, force of nature.
A Rested Development: How Patience Leads to Life
Sometimes slowing ourselves is the fastest path to growing ourselves.
Resisting A Rest: How Comfort Can Kill
If we follow the path of least resistance, we slip into the trance of the tolerable and start trading the effort and anxiety of ‘better’ for the rest and comfort of ‘normal’.
Opened Minds: Atheists, Agnostics, and Apostles
We can’t open our own minds to anything but futility, foolishness, and hopeless darkness. But, we can renew our minds with truth on God’s terms.
Happy Hunting: The Christian Quest for Joy
Earthly pleasures were never meant to permanently satisfy, but only to suggest and awaken our desire for eternal fulfillment.
A Widow Bit O’ Love: Appreciating Our True Value
A defiled dollar bill still retains all of its undefiled value. As do you. Its value comes from something far greater than itself: its maker. As does yours.