But what if our purpose isn't about having purpose? What if it isn't about what we do but who we are?
Striving for Purpose
How Peace Surpasses Understanding
When we take our anxieties to God, we are not just asking that God takes away our fear. We are remembering that there is a God who listens and who cares about every detail of our lives, and this alone washes away our fear.
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How to Know if You’re Dating the Right Person
As an over-thinker, it was difficult to let myself like anyone, date anyone, or even reject anyone without feeling like I could "mess up" God's plan.
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Finding Abundance Where I Am
We need less than we think, and there is abundance--and the possibility of abundance--all around us.
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Restore to Me the Joy of My Salvation
When you grow up in church hearing the same stories, they can become dull. Or when you have prayed to God many times without hearing a word or being filled with a feeling, you can begin to feel complacent.
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Practicing What I Believe #6: Embracing Hypocrisy
One day we'll be able to perform perfectly, but for now we're still in rehearsal.
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Fear and Faith Can Coexist
Sometimes I feel guilty about my fear. As a Christian, I have heard the declarations over fear and the claims that it is a sin. I've read all of the verses in scripture that say, "Do not fear." I know that fear, like laziness or greed, is a vice. But is it opposed to faith?
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Where is your faith?
Today I want to share a podcast interview that has been one of the best messages on fear I have ever heard. I hope it inspires you as much as it inspires me!
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Do You Want to Be Healed?
I believe the danger in identifying with a mental disorder is that we can begin to embrace our thoughts as though they were not disordered--as thought they were a healthy, normal part of us that don't need to be challenged.
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Practicing What I Believe 5: Religion
In James, the "religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world" (1:27).
