The breakthrough will come not in retreat, but in enduring under trial with faith in God’s promises.

Perhaps the real problem isn’t with the clumsiness of others, but with our expectations for corporate worship.

We do not love past them, around them, above them; we love them — despite their annoyances, oddities, shortcomings, ungratefulness. We repay them with love, not because they have earned it, but because we hadn’t either and yet are inheritors of the world.

Your battle has been won. Your God will never leave you. One day, he will give you everything — and everything else will pale compared to having him. And every wall you ever faced will seem small.

Our worries may feel close to us, but in Christ, our Father is closer.

Our joy, for now, is gritty. It’s mixed. It’s not simple. It’s not uncurbed, untainted, undiluted. And yet it is real.

Not every Sunday is a mountaintop. Our hearts often feel sluggish when we come to worship. Distractions around us may abound. Shame over sin can make us feel like hypocrites. […]

God does not stop revealing to us the glory of Christ in his word.

No matter what happens, we will never walk alone.

I prayed to God every day to heal my little brother. Like Jacob, I planned to take hold and not let him go until he blessed my brother with freedom […]