What if your happiness in this week has nothing to do with your circumstances, and everything to do with your thoughts in your circumstances? Just as you can train your body to run a race or compete in a sport, you can train your mind to see the good in everything. Will it be easy?

Maybe you're seeking God's direction in something specific right now, but he seems to be silent. Why isn't he answering you? Why isn't he making this clear? Why can't he just tell you what to do next? It's like Google maps on your phone withholding the next turn from you, and you're growing anxious thinking

I wonder how many times we're standing smack dab in the middle of God's holy provision, and we totally miss it. I wonder how often God's detailed answer to our prayers is surrounding us, yet we are oblivious in our continual state of worry. Are we much like Jacob when he wakes up in Genesis

The pursuit of living well can leave us barely living at all. We are rushed. We are distracted. We are addicted. And today, on the first day of the Lent season, God takes our face into his hands and says, "Look at me." "I am your answer. I am what you need. I will guide

Something has happened to you. Something unfair. Something unfortunate. Something you weren't prepared for. However if you focus on what has happened to you here, you will lose sight of how God can now use you for his ultimate good. Honey, this is bigger than what went wrong for you. This is bigger than the

As believers, we are referred to as the "bride of Christ." I'm going to be straight up honest with you, that never made sense to me. I'm marrying Jesus? Some religions have twisted and perverted that, and we're left with a bad taste in our mouth wondering what it would mean to be the bride

Jesus came to give you a wide open spacious life. A life of freedom being exactly who you were created to be, confident in doing exactly what you were created to do. But somewhere along the way we went about fencing ourselves in. We believed what "they" said over what God said. We allowed lies

When it's hard to love yourself, you've believed a lie. When you don't want to look at yourself in the mirror, you've believed a lie. When you dismiss yourself from goodness, you've believed a lie. When you play little, you've believed a lie. When you feel hopeless, you've believed a lie. Your heart has believed

Has life become all work and no play? All dread and no joy? All waiting and no now? What are you waiting on? What are you dreading so badly? Honey, what are you working for? This one life you have been given is going quickly, and the day will come when you look back on

Today is a day of love. It's the one day of the year, here the the US, set aside for intentionally giving and receiving love. It's Valentine's Day. The day where most every man in America woke up feeling already not enough for the woman he loves. The day women across the country wake up