I write a lot about God’s voice.  I write a lot about the fear of missing it. When I discuss hearing God, I don’t always mean audibly. We hear God in different ways, but largely through scripture, people, and the Holy Spirit within. You can probably tell that I personally struggle with being too obsessed with hearing God’s…

You’re being pulled in a million directions lately, coming apart at the seams. It’s sometimes the unfortunate byproduct of a particular, but fleeting, season of life. That’s one thing. Other times, it’s an unending and direct result of your choices. And that’s quite another thing. I’m talking about the latter, and I’m mostly talking to myself. Short-fused, with clenched fists,…

Your mind has been running wild. You feel out of control and chaotic and isolated.  You’ve been pursuing the Lord and ardently listening, but you’re paralyzed with fear that you’re going to miss God’s will. I find myself there too often. My obsession with God’s will can impede my pursuit of God. When my pursuit of God…

Have you been trying to manufacture a set of circumstances in your life to make it look more like you planned?  Maybe you’re telling yourself if you make X happen, life will be more peaceful, more joyous. Or maybe you thought life would look a certain way today, and it doesn’t.  And you’re having trouble letting go. The job…

I write to remind you to stop keeping score. You are living under the code of grace and grace alone. This performance-driven, you-earn-it, you-deserve-it record you’re keeping has been obliterated. You no longer function in a framework where you get what you deserve. What you did or didn’t do today has no effect on how God sees you….

I’ve spent the past couple days being overwhelmed by God’s love for us. It sounds cliché. But for a performance-obsessed, results-driven person like myself, sobering reminders of God’s intoxicating grace and undignified love for me stop me dead in my tracks. That God would chase after us. Like a shepherd who leaves his ninety-nine sheep…

Christ is our advocate. When we’re wrongly accused. When we want to defend ourselves. When we feel mistreated. When someone doubts us. When someone speaks ill of us. When someone misunderstands us. When someone mistreats us. When someone believes negative information about us. When we want to explain why we took a certain course of…

It’s freeing to remember who our boss is. Because if you’re anything like me, you wrestle with a perpetual desire to please. This desire for approval, often insatiable and dangerously all-consuming, rears its ugly head in nearly all of my relationships and endeavors. And it does so quickly and quietly and mostly subconsciously. But lately…

  I’m so relieved to remember God is not limited by our limitations. Why is this good news? Because we live with a laundry list of limitations. Limitations you put on yourself. Limitations you put on God. Limitations you were born into. Limitations you later developed. Limitations related to your physical, emotional, or mental state….