We live in a culture addicted to relief. Whether aspirin, TV, workaholism, gossip, food, or porn, we run to relief at every turn. Why not? If we can experience relief now, why . . .
Nothing on earth has the authority to define you. Your identity—your true identity—is who God created you to be. And yet, what you experience regularly informs your sense of who . . .
Anxiety is a breeding ground for sin. So when an area of sin in your life or in a loved one’s creates anxiety in you, it doesn’t help. In fact, . . .
The good news doesn’t start with people as sinners with whom God is angry. It starts in the beginning. And if we miss this, the good news will fail to . . .
Shame hurts. And when you’ve done something wrong, that’s a good thing. Like all pain, it’s meant to tell you something’s amiss and needs attention. When a splinter enters a . . .
We live in a world that pursues pleasure endlessly. But pleasure is elusive. How can you experience more?
Why does God allow temptation? Could it be you’re tempted because this is what God wants for you? Or could it be he has something much better for you?
We all have places in our lives we know aren’t beautiful, including at least a few places that are just down right ugly. When we come face to face with . . .
Then you’re tapped into a holy desire.
Wanting to be beautiful is different than wanting to look beautiful…
Before all time, God hovered over the abyss, brooding. We don’t know for how long. In a world of time, it may have been eons. Like an artist before a . . .