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A Christian Boundaries Guide for People Pleasers

A Christian Boundaries Guide for People Pleasers

People pleasing is difficult to address in a church, because so much of it looks like virtue. The person who never says no is usually the one everyone praises. Psalm...

A Christian Boundaries Guide for People Pleasers

People pleasing is difficult to address in a church, because so much of it looks like virtue. The person who never says no is usually the one everyone praises. Psalm...

Bible Verses for Anxious Nights and Racing Thoughts

Bible Verses for Anxious Nights and Racing Thoughts

Anxiety at night has a particular character. Everything is larger, nothing can be acted on, and the same three thoughts keep arriving in rotation. Psalm 121:2 is the one to...

Bible Verses for Anxious Nights and Racing Thoughts

Anxiety at night has a particular character. Everything is larger, nothing can be acted on, and the same three thoughts keep arriving in rotation. Psalm 121:2 is the one to...

5 Steps to Rebuild Trust After Church Hurt

5 Steps to Rebuild Trust After Church Hurt

Being hurt inside a church is a particular kind of injury, because the place that caused it is the place you were told to go for help. Psalm 55:22 says...

5 Steps to Rebuild Trust After Church Hurt

Being hurt inside a church is a particular kind of injury, because the place that caused it is the place you were told to go for help. Psalm 55:22 says...

Scripture About God's Faithfulness Worth Memorizing

Scripture About God's Faithfulness Worth Memorizing

Faithfulness is the attribute you need most at the exact moment you are least able to go looking for it. Which is the argument for having a few of these...

Scripture About God's Faithfulness Worth Memorizing

Faithfulness is the attribute you need most at the exact moment you are least able to go looking for it. Which is the argument for having a few of these...

What to Do When Quiet Time Feels Like a Chore

What to Do When Quiet Time Feels Like a Chore

There is a stretch in every long practice where it stops feeling like anything. You open the Bible, you read the words, and nothing happens. This is not usually a...

What to Do When Quiet Time Feels Like a Chore

There is a stretch in every long practice where it stops feeling like anything. You open the Bible, you read the words, and nothing happens. This is not usually a...

Journal Prompts for Seasons of Waiting

Journal Prompts for Seasons of Waiting

Waiting is not a pause before your life resumes. It is a large part of most lives, and pretending otherwise makes it lonelier than it needs to be. Psalm 19:14...

Journal Prompts for Seasons of Waiting

Waiting is not a pause before your life resumes. It is a large part of most lives, and pretending otherwise makes it lonelier than it needs to be. Psalm 19:14...

Journal Prompts for Rediscovering Joy in Your Faith

Journal Prompts for Rediscovering Joy in Your Faith

Joy rarely leaves in one go. It thins out. You keep the practices, you keep showing up, and one day you notice you are doing all of it and feeling...

Journal Prompts for Rediscovering Joy in Your Faith

Joy rarely leaves in one go. It thins out. You keep the practices, you keep showing up, and one day you notice you are doing all of it and feeling...

25 Journal Prompts for Trusting God With the Future

25 Journal Prompts for Trusting God With the Future

Trusting God with the future sounds peaceful. In practice it usually means sitting with a question you cannot answer and choosing not to force it. Psalm 51:10 is worth praying...

25 Journal Prompts for Trusting God With the Future

Trusting God with the future sounds peaceful. In practice it usually means sitting with a question you cannot answer and choosing not to force it. Psalm 51:10 is worth praying...

Pathways Through Regret | 5 Gentle Steps to Receive Grace

Pathways Through Regret | 5 Gentle Steps to Receive Grace

Regret has a particular quality. It does not arrive with the day's troubles. It surfaces at two in the morning, or in the middle of an ordinary errand, and replays...

Pathways Through Regret | 5 Gentle Steps to Receive Grace

Regret has a particular quality. It does not arrive with the day's troubles. It surfaces at two in the morning, or in the middle of an ordinary errand, and replays...

Pathways Through Loneliness | 5 Gentle Steps When You Feel Unseen

Pathways Through Loneliness | 5 Gentle Steps When You Feel Unseen

Loneliness is not the same as being alone. Some of the loneliest seasons happen in a full house, in a busy church, in a life that looks well populated from...

Pathways Through Loneliness | 5 Gentle Steps When You Feel Unseen

Loneliness is not the same as being alone. Some of the loneliest seasons happen in a full house, in a busy church, in a life that looks well populated from...

Pathways Through Disappointment | 5 Gentle Steps When God Says No

Pathways Through Disappointment | 5 Gentle Steps When God Says No

Some disappointments are small enough to absorb by evening. Others rearrange what you thought your life was going to be, and no amount of good theology makes them stop aching....

Pathways Through Disappointment | 5 Gentle Steps When God Says No

Some disappointments are small enough to absorb by evening. Others rearrange what you thought your life was going to be, and no amount of good theology makes them stop aching....

Pathways Through Burnout | 5 Gentle Steps Back to Rest

Pathways Through Burnout | 5 Gentle Steps Back to Rest

Burnout does not usually announce itself. It arrives as a slow flattening, where the things that used to feed you become items on a list, and the list is the...

Pathways Through Burnout | 5 Gentle Steps Back to Rest

Burnout does not usually announce itself. It arrives as a slow flattening, where the things that used to feed you become items on a list, and the list is the...

Encouragement for the Long Middle of a Hard Season

Encouragement for the Long Middle of a Hard Season

There is a great deal written for the beginning of a hard season, and a great deal written for the end of one. Almost nothing is written for the middle,...

Encouragement for the Long Middle of a Hard Season

There is a great deal written for the beginning of a hard season, and a great deal written for the end of one. Almost nothing is written for the middle,...

When Comparison Steals Your Joy: 5 Ways to Return to Your Calling

When Comparison Steals Your Joy: 5 Ways to Return to Your Calling

Comparison rarely announces itself. It arrives while you are scrolling, or standing in a church lobby, or listening to someone describe a year that went better than yours. One minute...

When Comparison Steals Your Joy: 5 Ways to Return to Your Calling

Comparison rarely announces itself. It arrives while you are scrolling, or standing in a church lobby, or listening to someone describe a year that went better than yours. One minute...

When God Feels Silent: 5 Faith-Filled Reminders While You Wait

When God Feels Silent: 5 Faith-Filled Reminders While You Wait

There is a particular loneliness in praying about something for months and hearing nothing back. You are still going to church. You are still opening your Bible. But the sense...

When God Feels Silent: 5 Faith-Filled Reminders While You Wait

There is a particular loneliness in praying about something for months and hearing nothing back. You are still going to church. You are still opening your Bible. But the sense...

When Forgiveness Still Hurts: A Christian Devotional on Healing and Boundaries

When Forgiveness Still Hurts: A Christian Devotional on Healing and Boundaries

We are taught that forgiveness brings relief. Often it does, eventually. But there is a season in between where you have forgiven someone in your heart and the wound still...

When Forgiveness Still Hurts: A Christian Devotional on Healing and Boundaries

We are taught that forgiveness brings relief. Often it does, eventually. But there is a season in between where you have forgiven someone in your heart and the wound still...

A Biblical Reset: 5 Faith-Filled Steps After a Hard Week

A Biblical Reset: 5 Faith-Filled Steps After a Hard Week

Some weeks end well. Others end with you standing in the kitchen at nine o'clock, coat still on, wondering how it all got so heavy. When a week has worn...

A Biblical Reset: 5 Faith-Filled Steps After a Hard Week

Some weeks end well. Others end with you standing in the kitchen at nine o'clock, coat still on, wondering how it all got so heavy. When a week has worn...

Seeking God's Direction: 5 Biblical Ways to Know Your Next Step

Seeking God's Direction: 5 Biblical Ways to Know Your Next Step

Few things feel heavier than standing at a decision without knowing which way to go. The hard part is usually not choosing between right and wrong. It is choosing between...

Seeking God's Direction: 5 Biblical Ways to Know Your Next Step

Few things feel heavier than standing at a decision without knowing which way to go. The hard part is usually not choosing between right and wrong. It is choosing between...

Let His Voice Be Louder Than the Waves

Let His Voice Be Louder Than the Waves

Stand at the shore long enough and you notice that the sea never stops making noise. It does not pause for you to think. It does not lower itself when...

Let His Voice Be Louder Than the Waves

Stand at the shore long enough and you notice that the sea never stops making noise. It does not pause for you to think. It does not lower itself when...

Pathways Back to Peace: Finding Rest One Step at a Time

Pathways Back to Peace: Finding Rest One Step at a Time

Peace is not something we stumble upon by accident. More often, it is something we return to through small, intentional choices made one step at a time. In seasons filled...

Pathways Back to Peace: Finding Rest One Step at a Time

Peace is not something we stumble upon by accident. More often, it is something we return to through small, intentional choices made one step at a time. In seasons filled...

Free Scripture Starter Set: three phone wallpapers, five quote cards, and a printable wall art print

Free Scripture Starter Set

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