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How to Start a Gratitude Journal That Points You to God
Gratitude journals are everywhere, and for good reason: the practice works. People who write down good things begin to notice good things, and noticing changes a day's whole weather. But...
How to Start a Gratitude Journal That Points You to God
Gratitude journals are everywhere, and for good reason: the practice works. People who write down good things begin to notice good things, and noticing changes a day's whole weather. But...
Faith at the Family Table: Simple Devotions With Kids
Somewhere out there is a family that gathers nightly in matching pajamas for thirty minutes of serene scripture discussion. You have never met this family, and neither have I. Real...
Faith at the Family Table: Simple Devotions With Kids
Somewhere out there is a family that gathers nightly in matching pajamas for thirty minutes of serene scripture discussion. You have never met this family, and neither have I. Real...
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...
A Slower Way to Read: Lectio Divina for Beginners
Most of us read the Bible the way we read everything else: fast, scanning for the point, half an eye on the clock. Lectio divina, a Latin name that simply...
A Slower Way to Read: Lectio Divina for Beginners
Most of us read the Bible the way we read everything else: fast, scanning for the point, half an eye on the clock. Lectio divina, a Latin name that simply...
Create a Quiet Time Corner in Any Home
You do not need a prayer room. You do not need a spare bedroom, a renovation budget, or a house that stays clean. You need one chair, a bit of...
Create a Quiet Time Corner in Any Home
You do not need a prayer room. You do not need a spare bedroom, a renovation budget, or a house that stays clean. You need one chair, a bit of...
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...
A September Reset for a Fresh Start With God
September arrives with a particular kind of energy. The light changes, the calendar fills, and something in us wants to begin again. It is a new year without the noise...
A September Reset for a Fresh Start With God
September arrives with a particular kind of energy. The light changes, the calendar fills, and something in us wants to begin again. It is a new year without the noise...
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...
Choose Joy Today: Four Verses for the Mornings It Does Not Come Naturally
Choose joy today reads well on a wall. It reads differently at six in the morning after a night you did not sleep, or in a week where the news...
Choose Joy Today: Four Verses for the Mornings It Does Not Come Naturally
Choose joy today reads well on a wall. It reads differently at six in the morning after a night you did not sleep, or in a week where the news...
How to Build a Gratitude Practice That Isn't Forced
Gratitude practices go wrong in a predictable way. They begin sincerely, become a list, and end up a small daily performance of contentment you do not entirely feel. By week...
How to Build a Gratitude Practice That Isn't Forced
Gratitude practices go wrong in a predictable way. They begin sincerely, become a list, and end up a small daily performance of contentment you do not entirely feel. By week...
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...
Bible Journaling for People Who Aren't Artists
Bible journaling has an image problem. Search for it and you will find watercolor margins, hand lettering that took years to learn, and pages that look like they belong in...
Bible Journaling for People Who Aren't Artists
Bible journaling has an image problem. Search for it and you will find watercolor margins, hand lettering that took years to learn, and pages that look like they belong in...
Bible Study Methods, Explained Simply
Bible study methods tend to arrive wrapped in language that makes them sound harder than they are. Inductive. Hermeneutic. Exegesis. The methods themselves are usually just a sensible order of...
Bible Study Methods, Explained Simply
Bible study methods tend to arrive wrapped in language that makes them sound harder than they are. Inductive. Hermeneutic. Exegesis. The methods themselves are usually just a sensible order of...
How to Set Up a Quiet Time Corner in a Small Space
The prayer rooms you see online tend to have a window seat, a spare wall and nobody else's belongings in them. Most homes are not like that. Most of us...
How to Set Up a Quiet Time Corner in a Small Space
The prayer rooms you see online tend to have a window seat, a spare wall and nobody else's belongings in them. Most homes are not like that. Most of us...
A Quiet Time Routine That Survives Your Actual Life
Most quiet time advice assumes a morning you do not have. It pictures an hour before sunrise, an empty house, a full pot of coffee and nobody needing anything. If...
A Quiet Time Routine That Survives Your Actual Life
Most quiet time advice assumes a morning you do not have. It pictures an hour before sunrise, an empty house, a full pot of coffee and nobody needing anything. If...
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 Color-Free Bible Marking System
Bible marking can be helpful, but a complicated color key is not the only way to study actively. If you do not enjoy carrying several highlighters, or if color-coded pages...
A Color-Free Bible Marking System
Bible marking can be helpful, but a complicated color key is not the only way to study actively. If you do not enjoy carrying several highlighters, or if color-coded pages...
The Context Before Content Bible Study Checklist
A single Bible verse can feel clear when it is printed on a card or shared in a caption. But separated from its setting, even a familiar verse can be...
The Context Before Content Bible Study Checklist
A single Bible verse can feel clear when it is printed on a card or shared in a caption. But separated from its setting, even a familiar verse can be...
Read a Bible Passage Like a Detective
It is easy to read a familiar Bible passage so quickly that you see only what you already expect to see. Slowing down like a careful detective can help you...
Read a Bible Passage Like a Detective
It is easy to read a familiar Bible passage so quickly that you see only what you already expect to see. Slowing down like a careful detective can help you...
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...
How to Restart a Quiet-Time Habit
It is easy to imagine that everyone else has a steady quiet-time routine while yours keeps slipping away. A busy season begins, mornings change, illness interrupts, or you miss a...
How to Restart a Quiet-Time Habit
It is easy to imagine that everyone else has a steady quiet-time routine while yours keeps slipping away. A busy season begins, mornings change, illness interrupts, or you miss a...
Practice God's Presence While Doing Chores
Chores rarely feel spiritual. Laundry gathers, counters need wiping, groceries need putting away, and the same rooms seem to need attention again almost as soon as you finish. Yet these...
Practice God's Presence While Doing Chores
Chores rarely feel spiritual. Laundry gathers, counters need wiping, groceries need putting away, and the same rooms seem to need attention again almost as soon as you finish. Yet these...
A Christian Evening Examen
By evening, the day can feel like a blur of conversations, responsibilities, small joys, and unfinished thoughts. A Christian evening examen is a simple way to slow down and look...
A Christian Evening Examen
By evening, the day can feel like a blur of conversations, responsibilities, small joys, and unfinished thoughts. A Christian evening examen is a simple way to slow down and look...
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
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...
Bible Study Notes on 1 John 4:7-8 | God's Love
It is one thing to be told how to study a passage. It is another to see a study page already filled in, so you know what you are aiming...
Bible Study Notes on 1 John 4:7-8 | God's Love
It is one thing to be told how to study a passage. It is another to see a study page already filled in, so you know what you are aiming...
Sermon Notes Layout Ideas to Stay Focused During Church
Most of us have a notebook somewhere with pages of sermon notes we have never once reread. The words were good. The handwriting was fast. But there was no structure,...
Sermon Notes Layout Ideas to Stay Focused During Church
Most of us have a notebook somewhere with pages of sermon notes we have never once reread. The words were good. The handwriting was fast. But there was no structure,...
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