1: “It’s harder to confess in areas where I am proficient,” Terry Looper writes in his book Sacred Pace: Four Steps to Hearing God and Aligning Yourself With His Will.

“If I’m already pretty good at something, I get in this mindset that I don’t need the Lord,” Terry observes. “I may not even think about Him when troubles arise, simply because I’m a pro at this; I can … continue reading

1: Diane Button had been living in Nashville for only a year when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

“Whether it was divine providence or sheer luck, during a time when our family truly needed help,” Diane writes in her book What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living, “people showed up from almost everywhere.”

One afternoon, while recovering from surgery and starting chemotherapy, Diane heard … continue reading

1: Hurry.  Hurry. Hurry. 

That’s the reality of the life we know. 

“If there’s anything we pick up from reading the four Gospels,” however, John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, “it’s that Jesus was rarely in a hurry.”

“Can you imagine a stressed-out Jesus?” he asks.  “Snapping at Mary Magdalene after a long day, ‘I can’t believe you dropped the hummus.’  Sighing, and saying to … continue reading