February is the month that holds Valentine’s Day, a holiday that might be particularly sweet, or especially painful, depending on the current state of your marriage. This year, the general sense of romance in the air tied to the holiday brought my mind back to the love story of Hosea.If you’re unfamiliar, Hosea’s story is both radically romantic and tragically awful at the same time. God instructs...

Despite my introverted tendencies, I love being around people. It can exhaust me after an extended period of time, but I still love it. It does my heart good to spend time with others.That said, there is one surefire way I can grow cold in my love for other people: by isolating myself from them. I’ve noticed that if I spend too much consecutive time on administrative or creative work, without any ...

This morning a short phrase opened the devotional I read, and it struck me unexpectedly:“God delights to reveal Himself to you.”Recently life has been so busy, filled with difficult issues to wade through, that the sweet times of fellowship I’ve longed for with God have been harder to come by.In seasons like this, it’s easy to feel like God is distant or displeased, and that I have to work my way ...

It’s easy to think wrongly about who we are. For many of us, our view of self can stem from a pride of thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought to think. Others of us, however, may struggle with thinking more lowly of ourselves than we should. Our self-perception becomes entirely shaped by our failures – real or perceived – rather than being shaped by what God says about us. This can lead u...