This series was originally intended to last 31 days, but since we took a brief hiatus halfway through, we’re going to run a few days over. Hope you don’t mind. There’s cupcakes in the back to make this go faster. Just kidding. But if you’re munching on a cupcake (or muffin, or scone) right now, send me a picture. I’d love …
3 Questions to Correctly Interpret a Bible Text (Part 2)
After a brief hiatus, yesterday we looked at how to figure out the subject of a Bible passage. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, click here to read that post. As a refresher, these are the 3 questions we need to ask to interpret a Bible passage: What is the Subject of the passage? What does the passage …
3 Questions to Correctly Interpret a Bible Text (Part 1)
So, I wasn’t quite sure how to pick up this series after disappearing for ten days (thanks random cold and post-conference blues), but we’re just going to jump in and finish strong. Okay? For most of this series, we’ve talked about tools we can use to engage with a text in order to understand what it’s saying. We wrote down observations, …
When Your Heart Is Restless:: An Exercise in Practicing God’s Presence
What are you searching for? Today, right now, what’s on your heart? What’s making you surf the internet, browsing one Pinterest idea after another, scrolling through an endless Facebook feed, clicking through those mindless Buzzfeed surveys? “I’m just bored,” I tell myself when I do those things. But really, there’s something more, something deeper, a restlessness that keeps me blinded …
How to Pray When You Don’t Know Where to Start
Whether you’ve grown up warming church pews or avoiding church like the plague, chances are you’ll face different challenges when it comes to growing your prayer life. And sometimes, even if you’ve been praying for sixty years, you may come to a point where you feel like you need to start all over again in learning how to pray. That’s okay. …





