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How to Study the Psalms Without Feeling Lost
The Psalms are easy to read and difficult to study. They are poetry, they jump between moods, and one hundred and fifty of them in a row will defeat almost...
How to Study the Psalms Without Feeling Lost
The Psalms are easy to read and difficult to study. They are poetry, they jump between moods, and one hundred and fifty of them in a row will defeat almost...
How to Study the Parables of Jesus
Parables feel simple until you try to study one, and then they turn slippery. They invite explanation and punish over explanation at the same time. Six steps keep you from...
How to Study the Parables of Jesus
Parables feel simple until you try to study one, and then they turn slippery. They invite explanation and punish over explanation at the same time. Six steps keep you from...
How to Study the Book of James in Five Sittings
James is short, practical and slightly uncomfortable, which makes it one of the best books to study when you want something you can finish. Five sittings will take you through...
How to Study the Book of James in Five Sittings
James is short, practical and slightly uncomfortable, which makes it one of the best books to study when you want something you can finish. Five sittings will take you through...
Hand Lettering Practice Ideas for Scripture Journaling
Hand lettering looks like a talent and it is mostly a set of small motions repeated until they stop wobbling. Ten minutes a day for a month will change your...
Hand Lettering Practice Ideas for Scripture Journaling
Hand lettering looks like a talent and it is mostly a set of small motions repeated until they stop wobbling. Ten minutes a day for a month will change your...
Simple Border Doodles for Bible Journaling Pages
A border is the kindest place to start with Bible journaling. It asks nothing of your drawing ability and it makes a page look considered. Psalm 19:7 says the LORD's...
Simple Border Doodles for Bible Journaling Pages
A border is the kindest place to start with Bible journaling. It asks nothing of your drawing ability and it makes a page look considered. Psalm 19:7 says the LORD's...
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,...
Fall Quiet Time Ideas for Cozy Devotional Mornings
Autumn does something for a morning practice that no other season does. The house is quiet longer, the light comes late, and sitting down with a blanket stops feeling like...
Fall Quiet Time Ideas for Cozy Devotional Mornings
Autumn does something for a morning practice that no other season does. The house is quiet longer, the light comes late, and sitting down with a blanket stops feeling like...
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...
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 Wake Up Earlier for Time With God
Waking earlier is not a morning problem. It is a bedtime problem wearing a morning costume. Psalm 91:1 promises that he who dwells in the secret place of the Most...
How to Wake Up Earlier for Time With God
Waking earlier is not a morning problem. It is a bedtime problem wearing a morning costume. Psalm 91:1 promises that he who dwells in the secret place of the Most...
How Long Should Quiet Time Be | An Honest Answer
Most answers to this question are not answers. They say quality over quantity, which is true and completely unhelpful when you are standing in the kitchen deciding whether to sit...
How Long Should Quiet Time Be | An Honest Answer
Most answers to this question are not answers. They say quality over quantity, which is true and completely unhelpful when you are standing in the kitchen deciding whether to sit...
How to Start Your Day With God Before Your Phone
The problem is not that you love your phone more than God. The problem is that at six in the morning your phone is closer to your hand than your...
How to Start Your Day With God Before Your Phone
The problem is not that you love your phone more than God. The problem is that at six in the morning your phone is closer to your hand than your...
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...
Fall Gratitude Journal Prompts for November
November makes gratitude compulsory, which is the fastest way to make it feel hollow. By the fourth Thursday most of us can produce the expected answer without meaning much by...
Fall Gratitude Journal Prompts for November
November makes gratitude compulsory, which is the fastest way to make it feel hollow. By the fourth Thursday most of us can produce the expected answer without meaning much by...
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...
September Journal Prompts for a New Rhythm
September has the feel of a new year without the noise of one. The light changes, the calendar fills, and something in most of us wants to begin again. Psalm...
September Journal Prompts for a New Rhythm
September has the feel of a new year without the noise of one. The light changes, the calendar fills, and something in most of us wants to begin again. Psalm...
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...
20 Journal Prompts for Spiritual Growth This Month
Growth is difficult to see from the inside. You are the same person every morning, so the changes only show up when you look back at something you wrote. 1...
20 Journal Prompts for Spiritual Growth This Month
Growth is difficult to see from the inside. You are the same person every morning, so the changes only show up when you look back at something you wrote. 1...
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....
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
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
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
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
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,...
How to Organize Bible Study Notes You'll Actually Reread
Most of us have the notes. Several notebooks, a folder of printed studies, margins filled in over years. What almost nobody has is a way of finding anything in them....
How to Organize Bible Study Notes You'll Actually Reread
Most of us have the notes. Several notebooks, a folder of printed studies, margins filled in over years. What almost nobody has is a way of finding anything in them....
How to Choose What to Read Next in the Bible
Finishing a book of the Bible is a genuinely good feeling, and it is often followed by three weeks of not reading anything, because nobody decided what came next. The...
How to Choose What to Read Next in the Bible
Finishing a book of the Bible is a genuinely good feeling, and it is often followed by three weeks of not reading anything, because nobody decided what came next. The...
A Cozy Faith Gift Guide for the Woman Who Loves Slow Mornings
There is a particular woman who is difficult to shop for, not because she is fussy but because she is content. She does not want more things. She wants better...
A Cozy Faith Gift Guide for the Woman Who Loves Slow Mornings
There is a particular woman who is difficult to shop for, not because she is fussy but because she is content. She does not want more things. She wants better...
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