Desert life is hard. We desert it in a flash for the comfort of green pastures. Deserts are not just about location but station--the less than ideal circumstances we're in today. In God's economy nothing is random. To the discerning, there are diamonds even in the desert.

Desert life is hard. We desert it in a flash for the comfort of green pastures. Deserts are not just about location but station--the less than ideal circumstances we're in today. In God's economy nothing is random. To the discerning, there are diamonds even in the desert.

Moments come when the Christian life isn't fun anymore. Conflicts pile up and won't go away. Like a bird woken in its nest, we'd rather flee. Like a disturbed snake, we'd bite. What do we learn about a person after God's heart in such a high anxiety environment?

Moments come when the Christian life isn't fun anymore. Conflicts pile up and won't go away. Like a bird woken in its nest, we'd rather flee. Like a disturbed snake, we'd bite. What do we learn about a person after God's heart in such a high anxiety environment?

Disciples were starting to feel confident with their identity as Jesus’ disciple and started to wonder how Jesus thought about them. Despite their presumption about who will be considered the greatest disciple of them all, Jesus begins to teach them about what it means to follow after God’s heart…

Disciples were starting to feel confident with their identity as Jesus’ disciple and started to wonder how Jesus thought about them. Despite their presumption about who will be considered the greatest disciple of them all, Jesus begins to teach them about what it means to follow after God’s heart…

It still comes as a surprise that we're not loved by all. What starts as great chemistry turns into wild hostility at a finger's snap. The experience of enmity is a powerful life-shaper. How does a child of God, a person after God's heart, face its inevitable challenge?

It still comes as a surprise that we're not loved by all. What starts as great chemistry turns into wild hostility at a finger's snap. The experience of enmity is a powerful life-shaper. How does a child of God, a person after God's heart, face its inevitable challenge?

If the Christian life were a beauty pageant, we're all in big trouble. Thank God, it's not! Appearances, they often hide what's real. When we get infatuated with it, we lose the centrality of Christ in our lives. The person after God's heart understands the difference.

In Israel's first king we see character cracks that set the stage for whom God calls "a man after My heart, who will do all My will" (Acts 13:22). Without God-moorings, Saul's only anchor was himself -easily unglued toward the transient, the traditional, and the trendy.