There are six verses. Fifty-five words in the original Hebrew. It has been memorised by more people across more centuries than almost any other piece of writing in human history. Children learn it before they understand it. The dying have requested it at their bedsides. Soldiers have carried it into battle. Prisoners have whispered it…
Lord Jesus, what we feel right now is real and it is good, but we know that what love becomes over decades is something different from and deeper than what it is at the beginning. Grow our love into the kind that is not dependent on feelings alone, that holds through seasons of difficulty and…
Imagine sitting by the side of a dusty road every single day. You cannot see. You have no job. You have to beg people for money just to eat. People walk past you like you are invisible. You are poor, blind, and forgotten. That was Bartimaeus. And then one day — everything changed. The story…
There is a particular helplessness that comes with watching someone you love suffer through illness. You cannot take the pain away. You cannot make the diagnosis different. You cannot do the hardest part for them, the endurance, the fear, the slow work of a body fighting to recover or learning to accept what will not…
Before you read a single characteristic on this list, this needs to be said plainly: a godly woman is not a perfect woman. She is a woman who is in process — being shaped by God’s Spirit, stretched by Scripture, and refined by both the ordinary days and the extraordinary trials of her life. Every…
Think of every priest who has mattered in your life. Priests give constantly and receive prayer rarely. They minister to everyone who comes through the door of the confessional and the hospital room and the rectory, and almost no one asks how they are. They stand in persona Christi at the altar and at the…
Before you read a single characteristic on this list, one thing must be said clearly: a godly mother is not a perfect mother. She is a faithful one. She is the mother who gets it wrong and goes back to God. The one who is exhausted by Tuesday and prays her way to Friday. The…
Most people know the story. A man gets swallowed by a whale. Three days later, the whale spits him out. He goes where God told him to go. End of story — or so we think. The story of Jonah is one of the most misread books in the Bible. Children learn it as a…
When Christians in the Bible prayed for their nations, they did not pray from comfort or contempt. They prayed from the middle of it. Daniel prayed for Babylon — not his home country, but the country he had been placed in — with the full honesty of a man who could see what was wrong…
There is a question at the centre of this parable that Jesus never lets the lawyer escape — and that He never lets us escape either. Not “Who is my neighbour?” — which is the question the lawyer asked, hoping for a manageable answer with boundaries he could defend. But the question Jesus turns back…