This is The Work of God, That You…
◆ Faith is the ceasing from our own worksand the resting in God’s work. — Andrew Murray ◆ The Work God Actually Asks of You There’s something in us that wants to perform our way into clarity with God. Even when it comes to faith, we can easily turn results, or the lack thereof, into […]
God Doesn’t Sanitize Sin
◆ God doesn’t sanitize sin.He sanctifies broken people. ◆ The Weight of Sin You Don’t Know How to Carry I think we’re all tempted to soften or manage our sin. To explain or rename it so sin feels more manageable. Not because we don’t care, per se—but because we don’t know what to do with […]
Abiding vs Striving in John 15
◆ Godly ambition will never outpace our willingness to abide. ◆ There’s an Order to Fruitfulness There’s a kind of ambition that feels right . . . even godly. A desire to grow, to build, to make an impact, to bear fruit with your life. But if we’re honest, ambition has a way of going […]
The Most Powerful Thing You Can Give Someone
◆ “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” — Simone Weil ◆ The Most Powerful Thing You Can Give Someone Is Your Attention Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. —Simone Weil I don’t know about you, but I’ve learned—often through failure— that one of the most powerful things I can […]
What Simeon Saw That Most People Missed
◆ “Watch therefore, and pray always that you may becounted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass,and to stand before the Son of Man.” — Luke 21:36 ◆ Why Jesus Taught Us to Watch and Pray This week I asked my father, John Bevere, to craft the prayer guide. I’ve watched […]
When Faithfulness Feels Foolish
◆ “It is required of stewards that they be found faithful.” — 1 Corinthians 4:2 ◆ When Faithfulness Feels Foolish Most of us probably struggle to relate to the apostle Paul. His life can feel elevated, almost unreachable—more monument than man. I mean he did, after all, write a good chunk of the New Testament. […]
What to Do When Obedience Feels Unclear
◆ “Active waiting means to be present fully to the moment, in the conviction thatsomething is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.” — Henri Nouwen ◆ What Isaiah 40 Teaches Us About Waiting Have you ever felt caught in a state of waiting because you can’t figure out […]
God Rules the Wild Places
◆ There is not one square inch in the whole domain of our human existenceover which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: “Mine!” —Abraham Kuyper ◆ God Rules the Wild Places: How to See His Presence in Every Season Have you ever noticed Scripture refuses to place God’s goodness only in the […]
The Smartest Thing You’ll Do Tomorrow Morning
◆ You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming?That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting. —Peter Pan ◆ Reclaim Your Mornings: Why the First Hour is Sacred You’ve probably realized when you first wake up, the mind is in a unique state. Neurologically, we’re […]
The Story Before the Manger
◆ “The genealogy of Jesus proclaims that God works through broken, compromised, and unexpected human histories.”—Fleming Rutledge ◆ Jesus’ Genealogy: How God Redeems Broken Stories When we think about the birth of Jesus, our minds usually go to Luke’s Gospel—the angels, the shepherds, the wonder of that holy night. But Matthew tells the story differently. […]