Devotion
Distracted in the Desert: What the Wilderness Teaches Us

Distracted in the Desert: What the Wilderness Teaches Us

Do you like road trips? The truth of the matter is, I do not. That’s because I would like to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible! We live in South Carolina, but our families are in Miami. Every time we plan a trip to visit our beloved hometown, I beg my...

Embracing the End of Your Rope

Embracing the End of Your Rope

Our family’s favorite dog was named Moose. He was a chocolate labrador weighing in at 115 lbs. and he was everything you’d hope for in a dog. He was a gentle giant who loved our kids and who always greeted me heartily when I came home. On most days, Moose ran freely...

Max Lucado: The One Thing I Know After 45 Years in Ministry

Max Lucado: The One Thing I Know After 45 Years in Ministry

Understanding God’s Destiny for You Amid Life’s Struggles Do you believe in God’s destiny for you? I’m nearing half a century as a pastor. Fifty years is plenty of time to hear how many people struggle in life. I’ve learned the question to ask. If you and I were...

Hitting Rock Bottom

Hitting Rock Bottom

We pass much of life— if not most of life—at mid-altitude. Occasionally we summit a peak: our wedding, a promotion, the birth of a child. But most of life is lived at midlevel. Monday-ish obligations of carpools, expense reports, and recipes. But on occasion the world...

The Power of Sabbath Practice

The Power of Sabbath Practice

My sister is a busy woman. She and her husband have four kids, ages ten to seventeen. They live outside of town in a house with some property, along with a dog and several chickens. My brother-in-law works full-time outside the home, and she works part-time from...

All Occasions Invite His Mercies

All Occasions Invite His Mercies

Years ago, a friend of mine led a conversational ESL class for immigrant women in her town. She covered all the things you need to know to get established in a foreign culture. Registering kids for school, medical care, routes. How to grocery shop and cook with...

Walking With Jesus Through the Wilderness and Into Grace

Walking With Jesus Through the Wilderness and Into Grace

Forty years ago on an early afternoon in October while driving on a North Carolina interstate, I turned to Jesus as my Savior and Lord. This past October, almost to the day 40 years later, I found myself driving that same NC highway. And in a very clear touch from...

Freedom from the Pressure to Perform in Ministry

Freedom from the Pressure to Perform in Ministry

Have You Felt That Insidious Pressure to Perform? A poor man plodded toward home, bent under a heavy sack of potatoes. A wagon drew up beside him. “Climb aboard,” the driver said. The man climbed into the wagon, dragging his burden with him. He sat but continued to...

Embracing ‘God Speed’ in a Fast-Paced World​

Embracing ‘God Speed’ in a Fast-Paced World​

Back in the 1970s, a Japanese theologian named Kosuke Koyama wrote a book called Three Mile an Hour God. In it, he draws out the idea that maybe the speed at which God moves is the speed at which he designed us to move. You see, a human being walks at three miles an...

Distracted in the Desert: What the Wilderness Teaches Us

Distracted in the Desert: What the Wilderness Teaches Us

Do you like road trips? The truth of the matter is, I do not. That’s because I would like to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible! We live in South Carolina, but our families are in Miami. Every time we plan a trip to visit our beloved hometown, I beg my...

Embracing the End of Your Rope

Embracing the End of Your Rope

Our family’s favorite dog was named Moose. He was a chocolate labrador weighing in at 115 lbs. and he was everything you’d hope for in a dog. He was a gentle giant who loved our kids and who always greeted me heartily when I came home. On most days, Moose ran freely...

Max Lucado: The One Thing I Know After 45 Years in Ministry

Max Lucado: The One Thing I Know After 45 Years in Ministry

Understanding God’s Destiny for You Amid Life’s Struggles Do you believe in God’s destiny for you? I’m nearing half a century as a pastor. Fifty years is plenty of time to hear how many people struggle in life. I’ve learned the question to ask. If you and I were...

Hitting Rock Bottom

Hitting Rock Bottom

We pass much of life— if not most of life—at mid-altitude. Occasionally we summit a peak: our wedding, a promotion, the birth of a child. But most of life is lived at midlevel. Monday-ish obligations of carpools, expense reports, and recipes. But on occasion the world...

The Power of Sabbath Practice

The Power of Sabbath Practice

My sister is a busy woman. She and her husband have four kids, ages ten to seventeen. They live outside of town in a house with some property, along with a dog and several chickens. My brother-in-law works full-time outside the home, and she works part-time from...

All Occasions Invite His Mercies

All Occasions Invite His Mercies

Years ago, a friend of mine led a conversational ESL class for immigrant women in her town. She covered all the things you need to know to get established in a foreign culture. Registering kids for school, medical care, routes. How to grocery shop and cook with...

Walking With Jesus Through the Wilderness and Into Grace

Walking With Jesus Through the Wilderness and Into Grace

Forty years ago on an early afternoon in October while driving on a North Carolina interstate, I turned to Jesus as my Savior and Lord. This past October, almost to the day 40 years later, I found myself driving that same NC highway. And in a very clear touch from...

Freedom from the Pressure to Perform in Ministry

Freedom from the Pressure to Perform in Ministry

Have You Felt That Insidious Pressure to Perform? A poor man plodded toward home, bent under a heavy sack of potatoes. A wagon drew up beside him. “Climb aboard,” the driver said. The man climbed into the wagon, dragging his burden with him. He sat but continued to...

Embracing ‘God Speed’ in a Fast-Paced World​

Embracing ‘God Speed’ in a Fast-Paced World​

Back in the 1970s, a Japanese theologian named Kosuke Koyama wrote a book called Three Mile an Hour God. In it, he draws out the idea that maybe the speed at which God moves is the speed at which he designed us to move. You see, a human being walks at three miles an...

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