If you call God “God,” you speak truthfully. If you call Him “Lord,” you speak submissively. If you call Him “King,” you speak servilely. ​But if you dare to call God “my Father”? ​That takes a brassy audacity—a level of pure boldness that feels shockingly, almost uncomfortably intimate. ​Think about it. You dare to call… Read more: The Audacity…

“Growth often begins in the places you forget to check.” We often treat our spiritual lives like a garden that we are desperately trying to cultivate. We pull the obvious weeds – the loud sins and the visible anxieties – and we water the “public” plants, such as our church attendance and our morning devotionals.… Read more: Growth in the Hidden Corners

You know, as we are growing up some of us are taught how to hustle, how to grind, and how to “make it happen”. Some of us just figure it all out on our own because we have no other choice; because if we don’t make it happen, it won’t… but rarely do we learn… Read more: The messy middle