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…
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…
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…
There is a question that sits beneath almost every expression of spiritual pain. It shows itself in different forms — as the sense that prayers are not reaching God, as the nagging feeling that something essential has been lost, as the inability to feel what you know should be felt in worship, as the distance…
There are commands in the Bible that are comforting. And then there are commands that stop you cold. “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” — Romans 12:21 — falls into the second category. Not because it is vague. Because it is completely clear, and completely contrary to every instinct the…
Grace is one of the most used and least understood words in the Christian faith. It appears on church signs, in worship songs, in sermons, in greetings at the start of every one of Paul’s letters — so often that it can begin to feel like theological wallpaper. Background. Expected. There. But not really seen….
Father God, whatever the last week looked like — whatever it produced or failed to produce, whatever happened that I wish had not — this week is genuinely new. Not recycled. Not the same week with a new date. New. Your mercies arrive fresh this morning and I receive them. Set the tone in me…
There are thirty-one chapters in the Book of Proverbs. Scattered across them are more than fifty individual references to the tongue, the mouth, speech, and words. No other subject in Proverbs receives this kind of sustained, concentrated attention. Not money. Not wisdom. Not even relationships. The wise men of ancient Israel were clearly convinced that…
2 Corinthians 10:5 Scientists found that the average person has over 6,200 thoughts every single day. You Have Over 6,200 Thoughts Every Day — Here’s What the Bible Means by Taking Every One Captive A simple, clear guide to one of the most powerful instructions in the whole New Testament — for every mind, every…