David Mathis | What role does your physical body play in the fight for spiritual joy? Sleep, diet, and exercise are friends, not foes, if we use them rightly.

Scott Hubbard | Sometimes, the solution to our spiritual struggles is less spiritual than we thought. God’s world, and not just his word, may hold the remedy we need.

Greg Morse | The pastorate is a manly vocation — one that no man should do alone. Pastors need the Spirit of courage, power, love, and self-control.

David Mathis | “More blessed to give than to receive.” These simple words from Jesus can transform burdensome requests into happy opportunities to get more from God as we give to others.

Greg Morse | The miserable Christian is a billboard for Satan. If those who know God toil on, sorrowful and never rejoicing, God appears a very poor treasure indeed.

John Piper | The enemies to our joy in God are many, but so are the weapons he has given for the fight — including his promise to help us prevail.

David Mathis | God may make believers in a moment, but he makes preachers over a lifetime. If you desire to preach, but doubt your present ability, envision the long arc, and seek to make progress over decades.

Greg Morse | When it comes to getting married, Martin Luther does not mince words: “Stop thinking about it and go to it right merrily.” Young men, God helping you, find a wife.

David Mathis | Our God is a great King, whom we approach with awe. And he is our Father, whom we run to with confidence. How does Christian prayer balance this paradox?

Marshall Segal | God is looking for people who pray to him in need and in plenty, in the wilderness and in paradise, in desperate dependence and in adoring delight.