Learn to Leave Some Things UnfinishedMark 1:35–38“Everyone is looking for You… But He said to them, ‘Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also.’”Everybody wanted something from Jesus...  Read More

Make the Call Proverbs 27:9“Ointment and perfume delight the heart, and the sweetness of a man’s friend gives delight by hearty counsel.”We live in an age of constant communication and surprising lone...  Read More

Don’t Let One Bad Chapter Become the Whole Book Ruth 1:20“Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.”Naomi experienced so much loss that she started naming h...  Read More

Don’t Let the Crowd Choose for You Exodus 23:2“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil.”Crowds are powerful. They can make wrong feel normal and compromise feel reasonable. When enough people agree wi...  Read More

Check What You’re Chasing Ecclesiastes 2:11“Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done… and indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.”Achievement can be addictive. There is always an...  Read More

Bring God More Than Your RoutineMalachi 1:8“And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, is it not evil?”God’s people were still bringing sacrifices, but they were giving Him what cost them little. Wo...  Read More

Stop Asking Permission to Grow 1 Chronicles 4:10“Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory…”Growth changes things. It changes relationships, routines, expectations, and sometimes ev...  Read More

Stop Running on Empty1 Kings 19:5“Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, ‘Arise and eat.’”Elijah had just experienced an extraordinary victory, ye...  Read More

Don’t Let a Bad Report Write the EndingNumbers 13:30“Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, ‘Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.’”Caleb saw th...  Read More

Stop Digging Up What God Buried Micah 7:19“You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.”God knows how to forgive completely. We are often the ones who keep diving back into the water looking...  Read More

Don't Let Familiarity Make You ForgetDeuteronomy 6:12"Then beware, lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."It is possible to become so accustomed ...  Read More

Worship Beyond the Song Hosea 6:6“For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.”God has never been impressed by religious activity disconnected from transfo...  Read More