Bible Reading for the New Year
We’re about to begin a new year, so it’s a good time to think about what I want my life to look like in the…
Why You Should Observe Lent
Lent is a 40 day period of spiritual renewal, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Easter. If you don’t come from a liturgical church…
How to Hear God’s Voice
How do you react when someone says, “This morning the Lord told me…”? If you’re like most people, you’re skeptical. Dallas Willard calls this the…
What Should we ask from God in Prayer?
In my Bible reading today I was struck by this verse: Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion…
Freedom from Disordered Affections
When you clean up your house, you need to throw some things away. For many of us, our garage is the most cluttered part of…
How to Cultivate a Healthy Heart
Many of the commands in the Bible are about having the right inner attitude and disposition, what Jonathan Edwards calls “religious affections.” Since these are…
The Biblical Understanding of the Heart
In my last post we looked at the commandment that Jesus said is the most important one in the Bible. God calls us to love…
What are Religious Affections?
How can we experience God in a deeper and more intimate way? What role do Religious Affections play in the inner life of a mature…
Embracing Our Smallness
It’s not easy to be small. Most young children are eager to become “big kids.” Teenagers want to be treated as adults. We live in…
Conversational Prayer in Groups
Praying Together Praying together is an important part of the Christian life. When you pray together with a few other people, how do you usually…
What is Spiritual Direction?
We were not meant to live the Christian life alone. Some of us have been fortunate enough to have a close Christian friend or prayer…
Private Practice: How to Care for your Soul
We are in the season of Lent. Since the time of the early church, Christians have used these weeks leading up to Easter as a…