Through the Bible
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Sarah Laughed At God’s Impossible Promise; God Named A Child After It
There’s a woman in Genesis 18 who laughed at the impossible promise. God heard the laugh. Named the child after it. And then, she lied about it when God asked why she laughed. “I didn’t laugh.” God didn’t give her a consequence, and God didn’t take the promise away. Instead, he delivered the promise. Most of us have the same kind of unconscious operating system running underneath our own faith. It sounds like this: “If I doubt too much — God will never grant it. If I’m honest about how much of a failure I am, I’ll lose the support I desperately need. ” So, we’re busy managing the…
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Because You Can’t Walk Beside Them Anymore
While you’re out shopping for dorm room supplies, there’s something else nagging you behind the anticipation of their new adventure. Yes, you’re full of excitement and joy for their new adventure, but you’re fearful of the heavy isolation of the world might find them first. You remember every prayer you’ve whispered over them since they were small, and all you can do now is hope that it was enough. But here’s the thing you can’t and shouldn’t let go of: One in three, they say, that 1 in 3 young adults inevitably face frequent, high levels of loneliness. So yeah, despite the new adventure that awaits them, despite all the…
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4 “Emergency” Prayer Words for When Life Falls Apart
What if the unraveling you fear is not a sign of abandonment, but the quiet, undetected start of a redemption story God has already scripted for you? Trust that you are not standing at the end of your story, but at a sacred threshold where being “left behind” is a preservation for a future God is unfolding beneath the surface. The following four words evoke God’s sacred help, unfolding through Naomi and Ruth’s story of famine and faithfulness, revealing a deep, redemptive story. In the Book of Ruth, we see that the trials they faced were not a sign of abandonment but rather revealed the bigger story of God’s restoration.…
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Watch How God Works in the Messes
God is not named in this book. But God is moving. He works through disruptions. Through refusals and anger and empty thrones. Through human choices—good and bad—that crack open the door for something none of them can see coming. This is the mystery of providence: God does not need perfect people to accomplish His purposes. He does not wait for clean hands or tidy narratives. He works in the mess. He moves in the breaking. Joseph in the pit.David in the cave. Mary in the scandal of an unexpected pregnancy. Vashti refuses. Xerxes rages. The advisors panic. And maybe you’ve been there too— feeling like your world is off-course, your…
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God Hovers: Finding a Path in The Darkness: Genesis 1:1-18
A Personal Genesis In the Beginning In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. But all I could see was the chaos. The landscape of my mind was empty, void, confused. Darkness covered the world, like deep waters swirling without purpose. Yet, God’s Spirit Yet even there, God was present. His Spirit was intimately near—yet, invisible. My world may have been without form, with darkness on the face of the deep. It was enough to sit in the darkness. To know that his Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And then without warning, A sliver of light pierced the darkness, and like the…
