Growth
He didn’t notice at first when she came down for the day dressed in black.…
Early in my Christian life, I remember thinking that spiritual warfare was primarily about exorcisms,…
The following account is a sadly true and embarrassing story about me. I hope none…
The biggest shift in my spiritual perspective involved coming face-to-face with how I viewed the…
Twenty years ago, it was a lot harder to get into arguments with people. For…
Looking for more joy and less stress in the time of COVID? Perhaps you’d love…
Only four experiences in my life have fully lived up to expectations. That’s probably because…
Scroll through Twitter or Instagram feeds, and odds are you’ll see Christians of the millennial…
Francois de Fenelon, a great Christian leader in seventeenth-century France, wrote in a letter to…
Jamie Ivey is an author, speaker and podcaster living in Austin, Texas. Her new book…
When I was 33, everything I thought to be true about my life was shattered…
For the first four decades of my life—and please try to squelch any envy you…
Not many of us think of ourselves as “creatives.” We use that label to apply…
In theory, we all desire unity in the Church. We talk about reconciling our differences…
There is nothing more transformative in human life than suffering. Whether it be from significant…
Devastating wildfires. Global plagues. Unprecedented political swerves. If you’re looking for an apocalypse, there certainly…
I wish I could say that my prayer life is one defined by consistent authenticity…
On a trip to the United Kingdom, our family visited a castle. In the center…
When I was a kid, a free-flowing river meandered its way through my backyard. Growing…
There is a picture sitting beside my bed that I have held dear for nearly…
Editor’s note: This piece originally ran on CoreyFarr.com. It was republished here with permission. “All…
Editor’s note: This piece originally ran in 2017. In the six weeks between Ash Wednesday…
Before college, I wasn’t much of a reader. C.S. Lewis was the only author I…
I grew up in a tiny town way out in the country. There were apples on…
Acclaimed New Testament scholar and author (his latest is called The New Testament in Its…
In less than a week, everyone is going to be writing down their New Year’s…
Christmas truly is the most wonderful time of the year, because it calls our attention…
I was sitting on a hillside in Israel when I first believed God loved me. …
The makers of widely used Bible app YouVersion have announced the most-read Bible verse of…
Everyone has heard the saying “WWJD”, right? What would Jesus do? You’ve heard it preached,…
What did Jesus teach on the most? If you have been in church during a…
During his celebrated career as a composer, George Frideric Handel wrote 42 operas, 29 oratorios…
Recently, I met with a couple who had been married for 20 years. A few…
You are a major character in the Bible. You may not have walked through the…
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as…
Growing up as a church kid, who suffered from severe depression, I was not met…
If getting in shape was easy, then everyone would do it. That’s the thing about…
Have you ever stuffed your emotions because you thought they couldn’t be trusted? I did,…