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10 Quotes: Prayer in the Night by Tish Harrison Warren
“This world is full of beauty and horror, but the unchanging reality underneath it all is the love of God that creates, sustains, and redeems all things.”
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Our Story Has A Good Ending: Jesus Wins (The Hope of Revelation 21:1–4)
Revelation 21:1–4 gives us a glimpse into God’s final act of redemption, when our broken world is made new. It shows us that evil has an expiration date, that pain and sorrows will cease, and that all our tears will be wiped away by the God who dwells with us.
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Am I Resting or Just Being Lazy?
Consider the fruit—laziness yields selfishness; rest readies us for service. Laziness procrastinates and avoids our responsibilities, rest reenergizes us to undertake those responsibilities.
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Holy Discontent
Whenever our discontent points us to God, it is evidence of his mercy to us. He doesn’t want us satisfied with anything less than what we were made for.
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We’re Citizens of Heaven, Not Lone Rangers
We need community. When we don’t have it, we’ll feel an emptiness, a longing, a craving, one that isn’t rooted in discontentment but in our very design. Just like God created us to require oxygen and water and food to live, he’s created us to need one another. It is not good that man should…
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Does God Care About My Happiness or Holiness? Both.
God actually cares very much about our happiness. Holiness and happiness were never intended to be pitted against each other. On the contrary, growth in holiness increases happiness.
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Let Jesus Set You Free from People-Pleasing
Freedom from people-pleasing is actually what frees us to serve others best. It allows us to serve out of joy instead of fear, to be imitators of Christ instead of strivers for recognition.
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God’s Comfort for Weary Moms
It’s hard being a mom. In loving a child, we open ourselves to heartache. But whether in small trials or monumental ones, God has more than enough comfort to give.
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10 Quotes: Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund
The cumulative testimony of the four Gospels is that when Jesus Christ sees the fallenness of the world all about him, his deepest impulse, his most natural instinct, is to move towards that sin and suffering, not away from it.
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Wisdom for Cultural Engagement
As we revere and submit to God, He imparts wisdom to us through His Spirit and through His Word. He shows us how to discern good from evil, how to live peaceably with one another, and how to love our neighbors well.