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The anxiety that keeps people awake at night is almost always about provision: whether there will be enough, whether the situation will resolve, whether they will make it through the season they are in. This is not a new human experience. It is ancient. The Israelites worried about food in the wilderness, and God sent … Read more

The Bible does not use the word procrastination. But it has a great deal to say about the behaviors and postures that define it. Procrastination is the habitual delay of what should be done now, usually in favor of something more comfortable or less demanding. It is the perpetual deferral of the important in favor … Read more

The ranking of sins is one of humanity’s oldest and most persistent self-deceptions. It works like this: the sins I do not struggle with are the serious ones. The sins I do struggle with are understandable, contextual, excusable, or at minimum not as bad as what that person is doing. This ranking system feels intuitive … Read more

Loving people who are easy to love is not a virtue. It is simply a preference. The love that Scripture describes, the genuinely transformative love, the love that is countercultural in every generation, is the love extended to the person who has not earned it, who has not returned it, and who may actively resist … Read more

Distraction is one of the enemy’s most effective strategies, and it rarely announces itself as an attack. It does not arrive with obvious malice. It arrives as something interesting, something urgent, something that feels like the reasonable next thing to attend to. The notification that pulls you off the task. The conversation that extends past … Read more

Breakthrough, by definition, happens after a period of resistance. You do not break through open space. You break through a wall, a barrier, a season of stagnation that has been holding something back. The very word implies that something was blocked, and that the blockage was overcome. This means that if you are in the … Read more

Your joy is not a feeling. It is a possession, and it was purchased at too high a price to give away carelessly. This distinction is essential. If joy were merely an emotion, then naturally it would be subject to whatever emotional conditions surround it. A difficult person would logically produce difficult emotions. A hard … Read more

What God has prepared for you cannot be taken by someone else’s success. This is the truth that comparison kills. The moment you begin measuring your life against someone else’s, you have accepted a premise that Scripture does not support: that God is operating a limited inventory, that the blessing given to that person is … Read more

Food is one of the most theological things that happens in ordinary human life, and most people treat it as purely biological. The table is where the most significant things happen in Scripture. Covenant meals sealed agreements between God and his people. The Passover meal embedded the story of redemption into the annual rhythm of … Read more

Business success in Scripture is not measured the way the market measures it. The market measures success in revenue, market share, growth rate, and valuation. These are not irrelevant metrics, and Scripture does not dismiss them. Proverbs speaks admiringly of the person who sees that their trading is profitable, of the diligent hand that makes … Read more