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Pilate’s Passover entry into Jerusalem offers a competing vision and strategy for victory when God doesn’t meet our expectations. Will you follow Jesus or Pilate?

A new year allows us to start over. God challenges us to use this season to question our priorities, activities, and relationships and align our primary concerns with his. We begin by considering his first question to Adam: “Where are you?” He also asks us–not where we are physically but where we are spiritually. How will you answer?

Why must we wait for answers to our prayers? Is God’s way of telling time different from ours?

“When Forced to Choose” ~ a preview from my upcoming hybrid devotional/Bible study book, Where Is God When I Hurt? What do you think?

Despite knowing worry brings neither peace nor results, many succumb to the temptation. Discover steps to win the war against worry.

The pandemic has driven many to consider Christ. Are we searching for a manageable Messiah or One whose word and wisdom we can trust?

With the pandemic, political changes, and personal crises, we face an uncertain future. How can we navigate to better days?

Many in our world feel paralyzed by the pandemic. How can we find healing and hope when God doesn’t do what we request or expect?

Thanksgiving restrictions imposed by authorities leave some of us feeling as if we’re in exile. Regardless of how we define exile, we long for the end. How can we find freedom?

Enemies: we may have them even if we don’t want them. Jesus told us to love them. But how and why? Can’t we just eliminate them?

When I face difficulties, I often ask what I should learn. But what if that’s not the point? Maybe the challenges we encounter aren’t meant to teach us but to make us.

Is the US changing cultures, exchanging one extreme for another? From hyper-individualism to toxic tribalism. How should believers respond?

The US is witnessing a cultural shift that feels like a culture war. How should Christians respond? Discover 4 steps to redeem the opportunity.

Depression can leave us feeling broken and useless. In Elijah’s story, we can discover steps that lead to healing and allow God to turn our brokenness into beauty.

Depression will either define us or refine us. Join Elijah on Mt. Horeb, where he met God. Discover how God’s question to Elijah can direct our steps in overcoming depression.

God’s treatment plan for fighting depression begins with rest. But what did that mean for Elijah, and how can it help us?

Elijah’s battle with depression began after receiving a death threat from Jezebel. How can his story help us when we feel depressed?

Racial Reconciliation ~ More Than Relationships: Whites and non-Whites see the racial divide from different perspectives. Do we need more than interracial relationships to achieve racial reconciliation?

What does God want us to do in this place at this time? He has a purpose and has placed us where we are for such a time as this. Read to discover what we can do to promote healing.

Anger may be America’s favorite sport. Long-term conflicts have risen to the surface, resulting in rage. Some defend their wrath, calling it “righteous anger.” Can we be righteous and angry at the same time? Click the link to discover what the Bible says.

Do you wonder how anything good can come from the pandemonium we’re experiencing? The Bible promises God can bring good from everything, but how?

Surrounded by demonstrations and discontent, the obstacles to peace can seem overwhelming. Gideon and the Israelites also faced desperate circumstances. Learn steps to peace, overcoming what seems overwhelming.

God desires justice and mercy. How can we do both? Aren’t they opposites? How should God’s followers respond to injustice and protests?

Joshua faced both seen and unseen enemies in Jericho. His primary enemies were unseen. We too face unseen foes. Discover the key to overcoming your invisible opponents.

Are you fighting through fear? Moses fought that battle too. Check out his experience and God’s promise. What helped Moses can also help us.

The battle we’re facing is a big one. How can we win against this unexpected foe? As Jacob discovered, God’s help can come in surprising ways.

Many opinions exist about what God is saying in the COVID-19 pandemic.We know God is always speaking. Learn from Martha & Mary how to hear what he’s saying.

By making room for God in her heart and home, the Shunammite woman discovered God’s grace and provision. What difference does he want to make in our lives?

The widow of Zarephath expected she and her son would starve after their next meal. Then Elijah introduced her to the One Who Is Enough. Do you know him?

Like Mary Magdalene, we may fear we’ve lost everything. Jesus met her in her grief, not to help her recapture the past, but to invite her into a new future.

Mary and Martha were disappointed when Jesus didn’t heal their brother. What did they discover when their expectations and experience with God didn’t match?

Many today fear a hopeless future. With the loss of her only son, the widow of Nain was also devoid of hope. But in crisis, God meets us in unexpected ways.

Both the bleeding woman and the desperate father struggled with fear and faith. Discover how they, and we, can turn our fear into faith.