"The Hope of Eternal Life" is a human yearning that is both deeply personal and widely shared. For Christians, that hope is confessed...

As humans, we are inherently wounded; we are prone to fatal habits, seemingly ingrained in our fallen nature. And we insist on looking...

Being humble, for most people today, is a form of weakness. The common thinking is that if someone practices humility, it means they’re...

“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.” ~ Thomas Merton When we start aspiring for the life God wants us to live, we...

God doesn’t simply bless us just so we can say we are a blessed people. There are two main reasons why God blesses us. We are blessed...

We usually thank God after something good happens. But gratitude before provisions and blessings is not only powerful, it is awe-filled...

"Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him." - Thomas Merton Among the sins to which the human heart is predisposed,...

We cannot undo the past. When we make mistakes, we worry that we’ve fallen out of God’s will. This is ego-deception. So instead of trying...

True solitude is an expression of the total gift of ourselves to God. We need a retreat from the exigencies and pressures of life in...

A way to grow in our relationship with God is through experiential knowing instead of just intellectual, textbook, or dogmatic knowing....

One of the greatest challenges for Christians is maintaining an eternal perspective. If we, perhaps, remembered the truth that "our life...

One of the most striking things about the life of Jesus is how mindful he was of his surroundings and the people in his life. Mindfulness...

In the Old Testament, we find the Hebrew word ʾashrê, which means “well-being,” “flourishing,” and “happiness.” This word is most often...

Creativity is the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, and relationships to create meaningful new ideas, forms,...

There is so much condemnation in the world today. Feelings of guilt are universal, that’s why judgment, censure, and blame are so common....

Finding true love has nothing to do with finding the "right" person in the external world because true love is within us - all the love...

We all seek to avoid pain, but our pain is just as valuable as our joy. The undesirable feelings of pain are on the opposite side of our...

It is imperative that we not only understand what holiness is, but also devote ourselves to pursuing it. In Leviticus, God demanded our...

There are giants to conquer in the land of God's abundance. One of the biggest giants is complaining about circumstances. We must...

Encouragement is something we all need to keep us motivated, loved, and feeling confident in ourselves and what we do. God desires not...