Is there any encouragement for us when the Christian journey feels long and difficult?

I suspect many of the spiritual issues in my life are owing to my lack of time spent with God in meaningful ways.

Start again.

Practical tools to help you read the Bible.

Do you practice spiritual rest?

A life of prayer is not born, it is cultivated.

We are not called to be thankful for everything. We are called to be thankful in everything.

Not all growth is visible, stay disciplined in your daily Bible reading. It will pay dividends.

When we don’t feel like reading the Bible, how can we help ourselves submit to reading?

What you need more than another sermon, another how-to book, or a self-help article is to get alone with God.

Our hearts are daily idol factories, grafting our affections onto created things that were never meant to hold our allegiances and affections. Idols promise us life, pleasure, and satisfaction, but in the end, only deliver death.

The question is- How do we lay these sinful desires down?

This morning I was with the Holy One. Not because I deserved it. Not because I'm Special. Not because of anything I did. I was just needy. I voiced my neediness to God. And God loves to glorify Himself when we are needy.

Most of our wrong thoughts of God are not untrue thoughts of God, they are simply true thoughts of God taken to the extreme. It is not wrong to think of God as all that we have listed above. He is all of that and more, but we do begin to be unbalanced when that is all we think of God.

Do you want to learn the way of human flourishing? The path to the fullest pleasure and satisfaction that life can offer? Then consider the wisdom literature of the Bible.

Perhaps you’ve missed a few days or even months in your bible reading plan for the new year. If that’s you, here are three thoughts to help and encourage you to get back up and continue the pursuit of reading God’s Word.

Sin looks enticing because, at the core, sinful action is always a symptom of sinful beliefs.

Tiredness is a symptom of a deeper reality; so it is with our spiritual fatigue. There is a distinction to be made between being tired from time to time and staying tired. That is when you need to take a more serious look, what are the symptoms revealing?

There are Christian words that we hear often. If we are honest, though, we don’t really know their meaning, at least in full. If we slow down we may find that understanding the depth of simple words can be very impactful on our Christian life.

The spiritual disciplines are not an end in themselves, but a means to know God better. I imagine God sitting in a coffee shop, off in the corner. I look over and I see two coffees. One’s for me and it’s still steaming. Will I go sit? Or will I look back down at my Netflix episode?