Your Truth, My Truth, and The Truth

Are you pretty good at discerning right and wrong? It takes authority to figure that out. We all live under

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Your Truth, My Truth, and The Truth

Why Forgiving Someone is Hard and How to Really Do It

Would you like to hold a grudge with God’s blessing? Wouldn’t it be great to know exactly how much of

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Why Forgiving Someone is Hard and How to Really Do It

Tel Arad—Israel’s Point of Impatience with God

At Tel Arad, the whole land of Canaan lay before the Hebrews. They had waited and wandered forty years in

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Tel Arad—Israel’s Point of Impatience with God

How Jerusalem’s Mountains are Like God’s Presence in Your Life

Life is full of moments that expose our doubts. In spite of all the Scripture we’ve learned and all the

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How Jerusalem’s Mountains are Like God’s Presence in Your Life

How to Breathe When God Steps on Your Air Hose

We aren’t surprised when we see people sidestep God. What shocks us, however, is when God seems to ignore people.

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How to Breathe When God Steps on Your Air Hose

Walking with God Requires One Thing Most of All

We start strong. Determination and strength come easily. Faithfulness flows from our hearts. Then life happens. We didn’t plan to

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Walking with God Requires One Thing Most of All

How God Turns Unfair Criticism into a Blessing for You

It’s tough to hear criticism—especially when it’s wrong. One of the dark moments of King David’s reign saw him shuffling

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How God Turns Unfair Criticism into a Blessing for You

God is Guiding Your Life and How You Can Know it For Sure

Sometimes it can feel like the Lord isn’t leading you toward anything significant in life. Or worse, that He has

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God is Guiding Your Life and How You Can Know it For Sure

God’s Surprising Tests for You Often Look for One Thing

God’s tests are most often pop quizzes. You don’t see them coming. If you knew you would be running late

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God’s Surprising Tests for You Often Look for One Thing

What’s Your Motive? There’s Only One Way to Tell

What’s your motive? In Jerusalem, one site always begs the question. I find it fascinating that when the New Testament

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What’s Your Motive? There’s Only One Way to Tell

The Levitical Cities—God’s Word Made Accessible to You

I am convinced God is far more concerned that we know His will than we are. In fact, He has

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The Levitical Cities—God’s Word Made Accessible to You

How to Insert Your Quiet Time into Your Crazy Life

Sometimes I’m amazed at the chasm that stands between my morning quiet time and the rest of the day. You

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How to Insert Your Quiet Time into Your Crazy Life