When Life is Hard

There are days (and weeks and months and years…) that life is one heartache after another. That just kind of comes with the territory living on a broken planet among broken people being broken ourselves. Things don’t go right very often. And it hurts. It...

Standing in Grace

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.” Romans 5:1-2 Every word in scripture matters. Every word. God...

How to Be Strong

The other day I was reading in 2 Timothy, and a beautifully unique phrase jumped out at me. Paul says to Timothy, “You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus,” (2 Timothy 2:1). I know I’ve read this book of the Bible several...