This morning in Costa Rica, I stood on a mountainside with red coffee cherries staining my fingers and the scent of roasting beans drifting through cool air. The rows ran along a sharp incline. You do not stroll through fields like that. You lean into them. You steady your footing. You work. Our guide shared …
Continue reading High Elevation Faith: Why Slow Growth Produces Spiritual Depth
We do not like blank spaces. We want footnotes for our suffering. We want charts for our delays. We want a memo from heaven explaining why the door closed, why the prayer lingered, why the report came back with that word on it. If possible, we would like a seat in the counsel room of …
Continue reading When You Don’t Understand God: Finding Peace in Romans 11:36
There is a quiet way we sometimes pray that sounds spiritual but carries a calculator in its pocket. Lord, I have served. I have given. I have stayed faithful. Now I need You to come through. We rarely say it out loud. But disappointment can expose it. Somewhere deep down, we assumed heaven keeps receipts. …
Continue reading Does God Owe You? Understanding Romans 11:35 and the Freedom of Grace
Some days your mind feels like a laptop with twenty tabs open and one of them is playing music you cannot find. Regret is replaying an old conversation. Fear is loading a worst case scenario. A decision about the future keeps flashing for attention. You try to focus, but your thoughts keep switching screens. It …
Continue reading Of Him, Through Him, To Him: Finding Peace in God’s Sovereign Plan
