When Enemies Surround

When enemies surround you and threaten to destroy you, boldly trust in God’s faithful lovingkindness and pray persistently and passionately to God. Because of Jesus, we know that God loves us, God is always with us, and we are forever safe with him.

Grounded in the God Who Holds Me

The solution to our fears—especially our fear of death—is living grounded in the God who holds us. Or that’s another way of saying: living by faith in the God who saves.

Because Psalm 16 is true—because God really is our refuge in life and our security in death—it reshapes how we live right now.

The God Who Lifts Us Up

The God who lifts our eyes with His majesty is the same God who lifts our lives with His mercy. In Jesus, He restores our dignity. He renews our calling. He invites us to live as His beloved children, reflecting His love into the world He has entrusted to our care.

When Life Feels Steady 1: The Blessed Life

The blessed life is not something we achieve. It is something God is already growing in us. Because the One who is the Living Water has come near. Jesus Christ — the Word made flesh, the true Tree of Life, the One whose roots go down into eternity — has stepped into our world of drift and weightlessness. He has taken on our chaff-like tendencies, our wandering hearts, our shallow roots. And in His death and resurrection, He has given us His life, His strength, His rootedness.

The New Heaven and Earth

Let the hope of Revelation 21 shape how you grieve, how you love, how you forgive, how you endure, how you worship, and how you live your ordinary, everyday life. Because the One seated on the throne has spoken: “Behold, I am making all things new.”

The Joy of Reconciliaton

Forgiveness — whether giving it or receiving it — does not begin with you or me. It begins with God, the God who sent Joseph ahead to preserve life, the God who sent Jesus into this world to pay for the full cost of forgiveness for all our sins. It is in Jesus where we most clearly see the loving, gracious, forgiving heart of God.

The Year of the Lord’s Favour

You can trust the voice of Jesus. He is the God-appointed, Spirit-anointed Servant who came to give you freedom, God’s favour and a new identity as a beautiful oak of righteousness. And he says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)

The Desert Will Bloom

So my encouragement to you today, dear friend, is to lift your eyes. Look up. Let your heart be captured by the glory that awaits you at the end of time. Because of Jesus, winter will not have the last word. You are going home to God. You are going to live in his eternal spring, and it’s all because of Jesus.

Trusting the True King

In Jesus, you have God, and there is nothing greater than that…. Life with Him will always be greater than any life without Him, and you will never face a moment where Jesus is not enough for you.

The Kingdom of Heaven is Near

Jesus not only fulfilled the old covenant God made with Abraham and his descendants. He also gave us a new covenant of grace, and that covenant of grace was applied to you personally in your baptism.