Unraveling the mystery of how God moves in our lives to change the world around us. — Have you ever noticed how God doesn’t seem particularly concerned about being clear and concise? I have. He doesn’t use bullet points or outlines to organize His presentation to us. Instead, we usually find the treasure of His truth buried in a somewhat obscure field of symbolic language. It is…

The temple in the Old Testament was pointing to something much bigger — My dad was a minister at a small Southern Baptist church at the beginning of my journey to understand the temple’s expression in the corporate body. People in our congregation consistently referred to our church building as the house of God or the Lord’s house. Every once in a while…

How God uses fractals to advance His kingdom — In the beginning, He spoke, and there was light. The thing about light is that it never stops moving. That same light spoken in the beginning continues traveling forward. This eternal quality is one of the greatest mysteries of how God works. His ways are everlasting. A phrase I have…

A hopeful promise in the unbroken bones of Christ — Why does Scripture point out so clearly that none of Jesus’ bones were broken during his crucifixion? Could there be a promise wrapped in the prophetic statement it echoes from Psalm 34? It was common practice to break the legs of the crucified to speed up their death. According to…

The area of our greatest need is an opportunity for God’s glory — We serve a full circle God. One who takes our desert and turns it into a pool of water. He turns the wilderness into a roadway. He turns the Valley of Trouble into a door of hope. He takes our needs and turns them into opportunities to reveal His glory…

How grieving this loss helped me recover — It started with little things—tiny obsessions. Mom couldn’t stop talking about whether she might have spilled a small droplet of the perfume at the counter when she smelled it. Did that mean she had stolen it? For days on end, those around her would endure endless nonsense contemplations of her…

Faith is the wellspring that belief flows out of — What if we got it wrong all this time? What if faith has more to do with the integrity of our trust in God than mustering up belief from one instance to the next? What if it is less about believing for something in the moment and more to do…

“See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us His children, and that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1, NLT) It was dark outside, and I had been working all day. I sat on the left side of a sofa in a small, comfy office with…

Imagining the best possible outcomes instead of the worst can free your mind — My family fell apart in a truly epic manner when I was a teenager. Every day was a very real battle and eventually I was drowning in an inescapable deluge of anxiety. There were some valid reasons and I spent a lot of time beating myself up for my inadequacies…