Spiritual Life

Sunshine doesn’t always bring joy... sometimes it makes everything feel heavier. If summer secretly drains you, here’s how to fight back and find real relief with God’s help.

Let’s explore some of the most-debated topics among Christians today. Hopefully, looking at these issues will give us a greater understanding of the issues facing Jesus’ followers today and how we can extend grace and empathy to those who may hold different convictions than ourselves.

Ever felt so overwhelmed you couldn’t think straight? That breaking point has a name. Here’s how to recognize the warning signs of emotional flooding and find the calm God offers right in the chaos.

According to the Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, the English definition of “blasphemy” is very different from the biblical definition. Here is everything you need to know about blasphemy, what it means, and why it's so dangerous.

In this world, there will be troubles, but developing certain habits can make your life better by bringing you peace within your days.

Celebrating "Look Up at the Sky Day" can inspire us to break free from our limited perspectives and notice the unlimited wonder of what God is doing in our lives.

Experts have proven that getting rid of clutter helps bring calm and peace to our minds. Spring is also a great time to clean our hearts. It’s easy for things to build up that need to be dealt with.

As if grief weren’t enough, we have the enemy using our most vulnerable moments to convince us of things that aren’t true. Because our hearts are tender, his arrows pierce easily. And because our minds are distracted, his whispers enter more readily.

Jesus clearly said that we are to give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, but we are also to give to God what is God’s (Mark 12:17). The Sabbath is His, not ours. And when it resides with the rightful owner, life is better.

If we want to correct the theology of someone simply because we want to be right and we want to prove them wrong, we are aiming far too low. We want our theology, and the theology of others, to be accurate because of the glory of God. I want us to see better.

As long as you have breath in your lungs, the Lord still has a purpose for your life on earth—the question is, how will you live it?

If it seems like God is disappointing you, failing you, or abandoning you, you just don’t see the whole picture yet. And spoiler alert: you might not ever see it this side of heaven.

Galatians 5 doesn’t mince words when it comes to legalism. It happens when we get so tied to the letter of the law that we forget to incorporate God’s love, mercy, and grace. It’s far too easy to let legalistic thoughts slip into my mind. Even a tiny little bit of that destructive yeast can spread through the entire batch of dough.

In these uncertain and fearful times, it seems almost impossible to sustain any semblance of hope about our world, its future, and our future in it. How do we face the future when it seems so unpredictable?

In case you are having a hard time drowning out all life’s noise and worry, I would encourage you to take a look at this list of songs which walk through the Gospel story and offer hope and assurance in exactly the areas where we all feel hard-pressed right now.