Getting Better at Bible Study
“One way to cultivate a deep connection with Scripture is by making ‘hyperlinks’ in your mind between different passages. The Bible is full of these connections, and when we take the time to find them, we not only enrich our understanding but also strengthen our memory of God’s Word.”
Chill: Rethinking Rest & Stress
God has designed us for rest, renewal, reviving – chilling out! He literally put it into the design of the creation when he breathed mankind into existence. But, we continue to miss that rest, struggle to renew, feel trapped, stuck, and often overwhelmed. This study will help you rediscover the rest that God intended.
Each lesson is designed to focus on an aspect that will help us find our chill even when life won’t let us stop. We can be busy and still chill. We can be pushed to the limit…and still chill. We can rush, and plan, and do and go and still in the middle of it all find the rest and anchor in the God who created us for chilling.
Feeling Small in the Best Way
Glen and hiked to this peaceful spot. I didn’t exactly come prepared for climbing around in a mountain stream. But I felt compelled to not just watch the water rushing by but to get into it. I had tennis shoes on, rolled my pants up past my knees, stepped across decomposing trees and slick mossy rocks hoping I wouldn’t completely wipe out into the water but I wanted to get out into the middle of it anyway. I made my way awkwardly across the unstable, mossy rocks, to a steady rock in the stream and just sat down on it.
Maybe We Don’t Need Another Life Hack
Scrolling the other day and I just kept on seeing “life hacks” and beautiful women telling me: “you shouldn’t do this, you should do that…” and “if you really want to have [peace, joy, relief, etc.] you should…”
Instead of feeling hopeful and inspired, I began to feel overwhelmed and even a little depressed.
You know what never leaves me feeling like that? God’s Word.
You know who never has a life hack I just “have to try today!”…? Jesus.
Ugh. I know this. I do. But, I get sucked in.
Maybe it’s like sitting at one of those slot machines and you keep pulling the arm down and watching the dials spin and getting closer to a big win but…spin, whirl, bells, lights…nope. So, I drop another coin in and try again for that perfect spin. Maybe this time.
Nope.
The pattern is so predictable: curiosity, possibility, overwhelm, paralyzed. I’m tired, and I’m tired of it.
What I’m slowly relearning is that so much of