I want an unburdened life. Not an ignorant, apathetic, or lazy life. Just the opposite, a life of purpose, intentionality, and perseverance. But there's a big difference between persevering in freedom and trudging under burden. In the love and liberty of Jesus, there’s a life free from making yourself responsible for the outcome of every …
Renewing vs Managing
There’s a big difference between managing your mind and renewing it. Managing is seeing and dealing with life in your own strength, from within the constraints of your circumstances and experience. For many, there are times that’s overwhelming, exhausting, unfulfilling, and the reason shut-your-brain-off reality TV is successful. Renewing your mind is letting God transform …
Finding the Strength
One of the most powerful verses in the Bible, at least to me, is in 1 Samuel 30. David is doing his best to protect even those that hate him, but when he returns to camp with his fugitive army, they find all their families have been captured. The men were in such despair, they …
Short and Sweet
You are completely and perfectly loved. Make that truth your reset button, and press it as often as you need to until it becomes as much a part of your thinking as it is God's. “O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, and so full of unfailing love” (Psalm 86:5a).
Burdens to Blessings
In the devotional classic, Streams in the Desert, Lettie Cowman recounts a parable: “There is a fable about the way the birds got their wings at the beginning. They were first made without wings. Then God made the wings and put them down before the wingless birds and said to them, ‘Come, take up these …
Equip Your Spirit 