This piece includes excerpts from my book, Broken Children, Sovereign God: Rejoicing in God’s Goodness Amidst Childhood Mental Health Struggles (Christian Focus, September 2023). The
Sometimes when I pray, I ask God to please listen to what my soul is saying, not my flesh— my natural body, mental capacity, and
I recently received a series of tragic updates that tipped my normally trust-filled, hope-saturated prayers into anguished, aporetic cries of lament. A very close friend’s
When I was little, my mother used to put electric candles in the windows at Christmastime. Because my bedroom was in the front of the
Is using the Lord’s name in vain a big deal? Apparently, it is because it made it into the Big Ten. Right up there with
Jesus ends The Lord’s Prayer with a plea for protection. The Bible is clear that God does not tempt anyone. James tells us, “Let no one
Jesus wisely establishes God’s goodness, holiness, and our need to reach out to him for provision before he gets to this difficult point in the
Give us this day our daily bread… Christ has begun his model prayer by establishing God’s goodness, greatness, and supremacy and our need to seek