Get Ready!!

Turn the screens off: the phone, the television, the social media platforms. Turn the noise off. Go outside. Pause. Listen. And know...

On May 4, Denver, Colorado, reached 73 degrees, but by May 6, there was half a foot of snow on the ground! The temperature then rose to 85 degrees on May 14, only to drop...

The Spirit of God then rebuked me. He told me firmly, “I did not call you to this country to be safe. I have called you to...

Full of joy, excitement, and an inquisitive mind that likes to push boundaries, I wondered what would happen if I did another 5-day water fast. Would I be able to lower my long-acting Lantus insulin even more? In the...

Sitting alone, he realized something uncomfortable: basketball hadn’t just been hard work—it had slowly become the thing he trusted most, thought about most, and measured himself against. Basketball had quietly replaced...

The King of the universe sees me, and I am not invisible. And how do I respond to such a call? Do I find myself too busy? Do I feel He is asking too much? Is my desire to say yes—but only if...

It’s with much emotion that I said farewell to my job today, and to many great colleagues who made these last four years the best years of my career. As I said goodbye, I shared the following as a guidepost for my life going forward: “I trust the next chapter because I know the Author.” So, what does the next chapter of my life look like? In this next chapter, I will...

For a long time, I believed I was on the right path, but as I grew older, something didn’t feel right. All these religious activities that were supposed to bring me closer to God began to feel more like empty routines—rituals that didn’t change my heart. Despite my constant prayers and church attendance, I started to...

The only way we can have peace in this world is by...

While I walked to my car holding onto my new medicine, many thoughts raced through my mind. “I am officially crazy. What’s wrong with me? Now I need this special medicine to help me get better! I’m a lost cause!” After I got into my car, I sat for a while, just crying and crying. Then my sadness turned into anger. I was mad! I began to drive and head towards the freeway when I suddenly remembered how my dad died. He was killed when...

God counted each day in that first week, but He did not name each day; He called day one the “first day." Likewise, days 2 through 6 were assigned ordinal numbers. It was only the seventh day that God named—calling it the Sabbath. Indeed, nowhere in the Bible do we find...

On the street, the angel vanished. When Peter came to his senses, he realized that he was on the very road he would have walked the next morning to his death. God still had a work for Peter to do, so He...