“Christ” isn’t Jesus’ last name. It means the Anointed One, and the anointing oil had an actual recipe. David waited years between the oil and the throne, and Jesus read His own anointing aloud in His hometown synagogue.
Reading about God, praying for others, serving at church: all good, and none of them quite the same as being with Him. Why God OS puts worship first.
He lost his son, his fortune, and then all four daughters at sea, and wrote “It Is Well with My Soul” crossing the waters that took them. The story behind the hymn, and where his anchor was tied.
Gideon was hiding in a winepress when God called him a mighty warrior. He built an altar and named it Jehovah Shalom — The LORD Is Peace — before the battle had even started.
I’d like it if growing in Christ worked like an RPG — memorize fifty verses, +1 to Spiritual Wisdom. Here’s why the progress bar doesn’t work, and what I’ve been doing instead.
I read Battle Cry expecting a book about men and anger. What stuck was harder: I have trouble hearing accurately — what my wife is actually saying, and what my own past actually was.
Abraham climbed a mountain carrying everything for a sacrifice except the sacrifice. What he said to his son became one of God’s names — and a promise he couldn’t have known the size of.
Six weeks through the whole God OS framework — Gospel, Worship, Word, Walk, and Prayer — with free Leader’s and Participant Guides. A study your group doesn’t just discuss; they run it.
Nobody’s making more time. What are you stocking your storehouse with? Launching the new Perspectives series with a look at permissible vs. victorious.
A runaway servant girl, alone in a desert, gave God a name no prophet had: El Roi, the God Who Sees Me. If you’ve ever felt invisible, this name is for you.
