How to Save Your Spiritual Life (It’s Easier and More Ancient Than You Think)
Maybe you struggle to find the words to share your faith. Maybe you have talked to someone about God and the conversation was going great…until you realized the other person was talking about a completely different god. Maybe you enter into spiritual conversations and...
read moreWhy Praying for Persecuted Christians Matters + An Easy Way to Do it
While visiting a predominantly Buddhist village in Myanmar, two female missionaries were attacked by villagers. The women were slapped in the face, kicked and hit for preaching the gospel. Their phones were confiscated. Soon the missionaries were brought to the police...
read moreThe Secret to Teaching Your Child Good Theology (It’s Easier Than You Think)
How young is too young to start introducing children to Jesus? Or is there even such a thing as too young? My mama friends sing and listen to worship while pregnant, read the Bible aloud, and more. That’s why I’m excited to have Danielle Hitchen share today about how...
read moreThe Big Fall Sale + 2 For 1 Bible Study
Sometimes the Bible can feel so disconnected. Foreign stories. Ancient cultures. Distant worlds. I struggle to know how to connect. You too?
read moreHow to Read the Bible With Fresh Eyes and a Full Heart
Some books are finished after the manuscript is delivered to the printer. Others have just begun. This summer many of you have joined me for the Scouting the Divine Bible study. And this adventure, in many ways, is just beginning. The people I describe in its pages...
read moreHere’s God’s Real Labor of Love
I AM the vine. Long before Jesus took on the imagery of the vineyard for Himself, God had been using vineyard imagery to communicate His heart to the people. The Song of Vineyard is nestled in Isaiah 5:1-7. This delicate yet ferocious poem provides the most detailed...
read moreThe Secret Strategy to Multiply Your Productivity
Several years ago, I spent time with several vintners to better understand vine and wine imagery throughout the Bible. This became the foundation for a portion of the Scouting the Divine book and Bible study—this is the Bible study we’re diving into during our online...
read moreThe Magic and Mystery of Honeybees
I asked my sweet friend, the Rev. H. Elizabeth Back, an Episcopal priest and beekeeper to share what she’s discovered about God through her beehive. I hope her words will be as much of a blessing to you as they are me: Jesus first made himself known to me when I was...
read moreHow to Live a Better Story
Well-told stories capture the imagination, inspire the soul, awaken the spirit. Well-crafted stories can also cast a dark shadow, embed prejudices, invoke enmity. Like dynamite, a well-devised story requires careful handling, great attention to detail, accurate...
read moreThe Uncommon Cure for Anxiety and Fear
Did you know one of the most common prayer requests I receive circles around fear? Fear over job security. Fear over finances. Fear over broken marriages—or perpetual singleness. Fear over diagnosis. Fear over kiddos. We live in an anxiety-laden culture—fear lurks in...
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