Hope you had a great Sunday.

Basic Instincts, Changing Habits

And we need to tell a better story about sex, one that demonstrates to those caught in Tinder and porn secularism that godly life is more satisfying than genital life. 

Mature Joy Will Free You from Fear

The One Thing I Tell Moms of Wayward Children

Wandering young adults, more than anything else, need moms like Monica, who will drench the ground with tears on their behalf. They need moms who will let them wander, believing—as Evelyn Waugh wrote in Brideshead Revisited—that God has already caught them with an “unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let them wander to the end of the world and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.” I believe that behind many of the lives I’ve seen transformed in my years of young-adult ministry are moms who refused to quit praying even when it felt hopeless, pleading with the same kind of adrenaline-filled intensity of moms who have been to known to lift cars to save their kids.

I Don’t Have Time to be in God’s Word.

It’s so easy to believe this lie: “I don’t have time to be in God’s Word.”

And if you’re imagining yourself spending multiple hours of quiet time every day in deep study of the Word, then maybe you’re right—perhaps you don’t have either the mental energy or time for that at this point.

But if you find yourself in a season of life where you feel like you don’t have any time to spend in God’s Word, here are three truths I urge you to consider: 

Why Did God Command Hosea to Marry an Immoral Woman?

The prophecy of Hosea is probably best known for the scandal of Hosea’s marriage to Gomer. So the question is straightforward: Why did God command his prophet to marry an immoral woman?