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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 Ways to Encourage a Friend This Week
Encouragement fails mostly for practical reasons. We mean to, we intend to, and then Thursday arrives and nothing was said. Psalm 107:1 gives thanks to the LORD, for he is...
5 Ways to Encourage a Friend This Week
Encouragement fails mostly for practical reasons. We mean to, we intend to, and then Thursday arrives and nothing was said. Psalm 107:1 gives thanks to the LORD, for he is...
5 Ways to Make Worship Part of Your Morning
Worship in the morning does not require a good voice, a quiet house, or forty minutes. It requires a decision made the night before about what the first part of...
5 Ways to Make Worship Part of Your Morning
Worship in the morning does not require a good voice, a quiet house, or forty minutes. It requires a decision made the night before about what the first part of...
5 Ways to Celebrate a Small Win With God
Most of us are quick to bring God the disasters and slow to bring him the good weeks. The wins get noted, briefly, and then we move to the next...
5 Ways to Celebrate a Small Win With God
Most of us are quick to bring God the disasters and slow to bring him the good weeks. The wins get noted, briefly, and then we move to the next...
5 Simple Ways to Praise God on a Regular Tuesday
Praise is easy to picture on a Sunday with a room full of people. It is harder to picture at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday, halfway through a...
5 Simple Ways to Praise God on a Regular Tuesday
Praise is easy to picture on a Sunday with a room full of people. It is harder to picture at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday, halfway through a...
How to Make a Praise Playlist for Your Quiet Time
A playlist can carry a quiet time or wreck it. The difference is almost always the building rather than the songs. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says to give thanks in everything,...
How to Make a Praise Playlist for Your Quiet Time
A playlist can carry a quiet time or wreck it. The difference is almost always the building rather than the songs. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says to give thanks in everything,...
Morning Pages and Prayer | A Simple Daily Rhythm
Some mornings you sit down to pray and find you cannot get past the noise. The list, the conversation you are dreading, the thing someone said on Tuesday. Morning pages...
Morning Pages and Prayer | A Simple Daily Rhythm
Some mornings you sit down to pray and find you cannot get past the noise. The list, the conversation you are dreading, the thing someone said on Tuesday. Morning pages...
How to Pray Thanksgiving Prayers When Life Is Good
Most of us pray best in trouble. Need gives prayer an obvious shape, and the words arrive without being searched for. Then a good season comes and the praying thins...
How to Pray Thanksgiving Prayers When Life Is Good
Most of us pray best in trouble. Need gives prayer an obvious shape, and the words arrive without being searched for. Then a good season comes and the praying thins...
5 Ways to End Your Day With Gratitude to God
Evening gratitude has one enemy, and it is not unbelief. It is tiredness. By nine o'clock most of us have nothing left for a practice that requires effort. Philippians 4:4...
5 Ways to End Your Day With Gratitude to God
Evening gratitude has one enemy, and it is not unbelief. It is tiredness. By nine o'clock most of us have nothing left for a practice that requires effort. Philippians 4:4...
30 Gratitude Journal Prompts for Christian Women
The trouble with gratitude journaling is that most of us run out by day four. Family, health, home, coffee. All true, all quickly exhausted. Psalm 139:23 is the prayer underneath...
30 Gratitude Journal Prompts for Christian Women
The trouble with gratitude journaling is that most of us run out by day four. Family, health, home, coffee. All true, all quickly exhausted. Psalm 139:23 is the prayer underneath...
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
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
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...
15 Journal Prompts for Hearing God More Clearly
Hearing God is less like receiving a message and more like learning a voice. It takes time with the person before you can pick them out in a crowded room....
15 Journal Prompts for Hearing God More Clearly
Hearing God is less like receiving a message and more like learning a voice. It takes time with the person before you can pick them out in a crowded room....
Praying Scripture: Turn the Verses You Read Into Prayers
Every praying person hits the wall eventually. The words run thin, the same phrases circle back, and prayer starts to feel like a call where you do all the talking...
Praying Scripture: Turn the Verses You Read Into Prayers
Every praying person hits the wall eventually. The words run thin, the same phrases circle back, and prayer starts to feel like a call where you do all the talking...
How to Start a Prayer Journal You Will Actually Use
There is a particular kind of intimidation that comes from a brand new notebook. The pages are so clean. Your handwriting suddenly feels unworthy. So the beautiful journal you bought...
How to Start a Prayer Journal You Will Actually Use
There is a particular kind of intimidation that comes from a brand new notebook. The pages are so clean. Your handwriting suddenly feels unworthy. So the beautiful journal you bought...
How to Keep a Prayer List Alive
A prayer list often begins with good intentions. You write down the names and needs you do not want to forget, and for a while the list helps you pray...
How to Keep a Prayer List Alive
A prayer list often begins with good intentions. You write down the names and needs you do not want to forget, and for a while the list helps you pray...
A Prayer Walk for Your Neighborhood
You do not have to travel far to find a place that needs prayer. The streets around your home hold ordinary stories of joy, loneliness, work, illness, new beginnings, and...
A Prayer Walk for Your Neighborhood
You do not have to travel far to find a place that needs prayer. The streets around your home hold ordinary stories of joy, loneliness, work, illness, new beginnings, and...
Prayer Journal Prompts for When You Feel Stuck
A prayer journal is a wonderful thing until the third week, when you open it and realize you have written more or less the same page eleven times. The people...
Prayer Journal Prompts for When You Feel Stuck
A prayer journal is a wonderful thing until the third week, when you open it and realize you have written more or less the same page eleven times. The people...
Pray Before You Reply: A Grace-Filled Pause for Difficult Conversations
A tense message can make your whole body feel ready to answer. Your mind begins building a defense, your fingers move toward the keyboard, and suddenly the most urgent thing...
Pray Before You Reply: A Grace-Filled Pause for Difficult Conversations
A tense message can make your whole body feel ready to answer. Your mind begins building a defense, your fingers move toward the keyboard, and suddenly the most urgent thing...
A Prayer Practice for Difficult Decisions
Difficult decisions rarely arrive with perfect clarity. More often, they come with competing desires, incomplete information, and the uncomfortable knowledge that more than one option may be possible. Prayer does...
A Prayer Practice for Difficult Decisions
Difficult decisions rarely arrive with perfect clarity. More often, they come with competing desires, incomplete information, and the uncomfortable knowledge that more than one option may be possible. Prayer does...
Create a Personal Prayer Liturgy
Prayer does not always have to begin with finding brand-new words. Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is prepare a few simple prayers before you need them, words...
Create a Personal Prayer Liturgy
Prayer does not always have to begin with finding brand-new words. Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is prepare a few simple prayers before you need them, words...
How to Pray When You Have No Words
There are moments when prayer comes easily, and there are moments when language seems to disappear. Grief can make every sentence feel too small. Anxiety can scatter your thoughts. Exhaustion...
How to Pray When You Have No Words
There are moments when prayer comes easily, and there are moments when language seems to disappear. Grief can make every sentence feel too small. Anxiety can scatter your thoughts. Exhaustion...
Turn Your Commute Into a Prayer Walk
A commute can feel like time that belongs to no one. We are no longer at home, but we have not yet arrived at work. We may spend those minutes...
Turn Your Commute Into a Prayer Walk
A commute can feel like time that belongs to no one. We are no longer at home, but we have not yet arrived at work. We may spend those minutes...
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