What to Do When God Seems Far Away

Have you ever felt like this? Say, you have just finished work and you have a few minutes to yourself on your drive home and you tried to pray. It should have been easy, since you were alone in the car. But you just couldn’t summon the focus or the desire. You’re soul just felt…

Come, All Who Are Weary & Carry Heavy Burdens.

Do you ever feel like you can’t let anyone see when you’re struggling? When things are rough at work or tough at home? Or maybe when there isn’t enough money or something isn’t great with your health? If so, you’re not alone. This world of ours regards fear, anxiety, pain, and hardship as simply bad,…

Is it Ok as a Christian to have Doubts?

I’m sure we all have felt doubt, I know I have. We doubt the promises God has made. We doubt the abilities God has gifted us with. We doubt the provision God has over our lives. We doubt that God has joy set apart for us, because our current suffering doesn’t seem as appealing as…

The Prodigal

Finally he was free. Free. Free of the endless chores. Free of getting up at the crack of dawn and working until long after the sun set. Free of milking the cows, tilling the fields, cleaning the stables, and all the other endless chores around the farm. Turning away from the farm, he now faced…

Wounded Beauty

One of the most dangerous things about beauty is the assumption that we know where to look for it. We are not completely blind, of course: because of our creation in God’s image, which is not wholly destroyed by the Fall, all people have some God-given grasp of what beauty is. All of us, Christian…

Walk gently in the lives of others, as not all wounds are obvious.

An unkind thought, a careless word, can cause so much pain. Catch the thought. Hold the word. Words, and the Consequences of those words, said in anger, said in haste, said without thought or care for another person, can do an untold amount of damage to their heart. So quickly said, they cannot be recalled.…