Lord, I look at the people around me and their lives don’t make sense to me. Everything seems to go right for the people who don’t give you a second thought. But those who cry out to you, who build their lives on your worldview, face all kinds of...

I used to think that I knew myself better than anyone else: my strengths, my weaknesses, what drives me. Yet the more time passes, the more I realize there’s a lot I don’t understand about myself. But you, Lord, you know me thoroughly. And though at...

Lord, I live in a world that is all too often negative in its viewpoint. The glass is half empty instead of half full. Yet I have so much for which to be grateful. You have given me so many good things. Help me to count my blessings, to see your good...

Lord, what’s my focus? When I focus on this world, its expectations, its demands, its lies about what will truly satisfy, I feel like I wither. But when I sink roots into your truth, your message of peace and hope and love, I finally feel refreshed.

An unshakable faith is found in only one place… sitting at Jesus’ feet.

Paul and the Philippians enjoyed a wonderful relationship: they were gospel partners (fellowship) in ministry. He was not afraid to ask them for help and they were eager to give him support.

Sometimes it seems foolish to do what God commands. How can marching around a city bring down its walls? We don’t always see or understand why God asks us to do what he asks us to do, but faith tells us that when we do it, we will be blessed.

Sometimes what God does in his Church makes no sense to us. Sometimes what God does in our own lives makes no sense to us. How can I trust him? How can I have an “all-in” faith?

Faith in Christ provides the best outlook on life and death. Every day can be a joy because we have a purpose – to love Christ. And when we die? Christ promises something better by far.

A young person, far from home for the first time, experiencing a different culture, challenged by sexual temptations – that is Joseph’s story. Someone at college or in the military today may have an experience similar to Joseph’s. Lord, grant them an...