Prayer All I Need (a Prayer) 18 Feb 2016 Father God, I praise You for being who You are. Your love is limitless. The gravity of Your grace pulls me to You. Your compassion is consumes my hurt. Your…
Prayer Rest (A Prayer) 24 Jan 2016 Heavenly Father, How majestic is Your name in all the earth! None can match Your wisdom, or plumb Your understanding. The heavens sing of Your glory, and the earth testifies…
Love… The Reason Love Takes Grace 23 Jan 2016 This quote gets to the heart of why love without grace is little more than a shadow of the Real Thing. The kind of love God wants us to have…
Prayer Leaning into Grace (a Prayer) 17 Jan 2016 Gracious Father, We confess our weakness, brokenness, and darkness to You. We confess the same things every week. We fail to love one another. We constantly put ourselves and our…
Going Deeper… Why Won’t God Just Take This Away? 6 Jan 2016 For the director of music. A psalm of David. How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I…
Marriage 25 29 Dec 2015 I was expecting a wintery mix of rain and snow today, but when I looked out the window this morning there was about 4 inches of wet snow on the…
Prayer Thanks, Hope, and Trust (A Prayer for the New Year) 27 Dec 2015 Our Gracious Father, As we come to the end of another year we thank You for the blessings You gave in it: for family and friends, the fellowship with our…
Grace… The Beauty of Grace (A Christmas Prayer) 20 Dec 2015 Father, Christmas puts Your grace front and center. We see the humility of it in how quietly it came, in the simple, plain, and common way Jesus entered the world.…
Books… False Positive 8—That Comforts and Joys Seem to Follow Awakenings and Convictions of Conscience, in a Certain Order. Part 2. 15 Dec 2015 Tuesdays with Edwards! A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections is one of Edwards' most widely read and influential works, and has come to be viewed as a classic in Christian literature;…
Prayer Christmas Grace (A Prayer) 13 Dec 2015 Gracious Father, We are so prone to run down the wrong path, to listen to the wrong voice, to act on the wrong motives. And we are no less prone…