An old dusty highway became an unexpected lens for understanding the ancient road running through Mark's Gospel. He opens by quoting Isaiah, and understanding why changes how you read the whole book. Along the flat, dusty roads of Texas lies an obscure highway. Years...
We keep waiting to feel like we have surplus before we trust God. The widow shows us sufficiency doesn't wait for surplus. It shows up in the lack. “For they gave a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she had to live on.” — Mark...
There is a single three-letter word tucked inside Jeremiah 5:18 that carries more hope than most of us realize. That word is “yet.” This devotion, the fourth in a series drawn from the book of Jeremiah, explores what it means that God's judgment has a limit, and what...
Therefore, go and give this message to Israel. This is what the Lord says: “O Israel, my faithless people, come home to me again, for I am merciful. I will not be angry with you forever.” — Jeremiah 3:12 Tears obscured my view as the wipers scraped across the...
Jeremiah 2:13 exposes what our self-reliance really costs us. When we dig our own wells searching for our own sources we end up thirsty. Here's where real life-giving water comes from. For my people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me — the fountain of...
When church leaders wound you, when ministry dreams die, when everything you’ve built crumbles—these are the moments that test whether your faith can survive. When we go through devastating rejection we can learn to recognize God’s presence in our deepest pain. Even when we’re fed the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, our Teacher never hides himself.
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