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….

What is just as dangerous as making God too small? Making God too big. We often emphasize the problem of making God smaller than we should. But what about when we perceive God as too great for life’s boring or trivial problems? The problems that worm their way into our day-to-day routine and make themselves…

Waiting on an answer from God is surely one of the most painful processes. At least, I make it so because I generally want God’s answer yesterday.  And I want that answer to include a dramatically defined change in my position or some measurable progress that fits the parameters I gave God. There are times that I’ve…

  Most of our lives, we’re either entering or exiting a wintry chapter. If this resonates with you, don’t let that chapter be in vain. As I emerge from my own fog, I fight feeling calloused, disoriented, or even purposeless. But I’m reminded of this: I’m still here. This reminder orients me to a God who has…

It’s been a tough yet rewarding season of late. It’s been a season full of pain and fruit. It’s been a season where I take God at His word when nothing around me looks like that word. I won’t pretend to be experiencing a life-threatening trial–I’m thankful to say I’m not.  But regardless of the…

It’s unsurprising that our expectations may differ from God’s plan.  I recently experienced this and wish I had handled it more gracefully.  While God’s plan and purpose are far better than mine, I silently carried around feelings of disappointment that I tried to ignore.  By failing to take those feelings to God, I began to…