When Doubt Visits a Faithful Life
She had led a Bible study for six years, could recite entire passages from memory, and had built her whole adult life around a faith she genuinely believed to be true. Then, on an ordinary evening with no particular trigger she could later identify, a…
The Stewardship of Aging Parents: A Season That Rearranges Everything
He got the call on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, his mother’s neighbor explaining, carefully and a little apologetically, that she had found her sitting confused on the porch steps, unable to remember how she had gotten there or where she had been…
Teaching Yourself to Rest When Rest Was Never Modeled for You
She sat down on a Saturday afternoon with a book, genuinely intending to relax, and lasted about eleven minutes before standing back up to start a load of laundry that could easily have waited until Monday. Nobody had told her to get up. Nothing urgent…
Contentment in a Season of Waiting for Marriage
He turned thirty-four alone at another wedding, the fourth one that year, standing at the edge of a dance floor watching two people he loved begin a life he had hoped for himself for longer than he wanted to admit out loud. Nobody at the reception meant…
The Practice of Confession in an Age of Curated Perfection
She sat in a small group circle every Wednesday night for over a year, sharing prayer requests about her schedule and her health, careful each week to keep the conversation just short of anything genuinely honest about the resentment quietly building in…
When Serving at Church Starts to Replace Sitting With God
He served on three ministry teams, showed up early most Sundays to help set up, and stayed late most weeks for a leadership meeting that ran longer than planned. By any outward measure, he was one of the most spiritually engaged people in his…
The Space Between Sundays: Keeping Faith Alive During the Week
She left church most Sundays genuinely moved, humming a worship song in the car, carrying a real sense of closeness to God that felt entirely authentic in the moment. But by Wednesday, that closeness had usually faded into something closer to background…
When You Feel Called to More But Life Only Allows for Less
He used to imagine himself leading something larger, a ministry, a significant career, some visible expression of the calling he had felt pressing on him since his twenties. Instead, most of his days now involved changing diapers, managing a modest job…
Waiting on God When the Timeline Feels Wrong
She had marked the date on her calendar three years ago, a rough guess at when the adoption might finally come through, back when three years still sounded like a long time to wait for anything. The date came and went without a call. Then another year…
What the Bible Says About Idleness Versus Rest
He canceled his plans for the afternoon, lay down on the couch with every intention of resting, and spent the next two hours instead scrolling through his phone, restless and vaguely guilty the entire time, somehow more tired at the end of it than he had…