Butterflies of the Unknown: Adventure Is for You Too
Skipped something you wanted because nobody would go? Annie F. Downs on going anyway and the world that opens. Set aside for Rapt readers.
The Prayer That Didn’t Take: A Faith That Does
Still trying to make yourself change? Jonathan Bailey opens his new book to Rapt readers with an ancient, slower path to transformation.
Chasing Fireflies, Catching Glimpses: The Presence You’ve Been Missing
Ever prayed for the presence of God? Ever felt it? You can. Gary S. Selby opens his new book on C.S. Lewis for Rapt.
Driving Through Cornfields: Past the End of the World
When time feels like it's running out, take the long way home. Timothy Willard took it under a supermoon and wrote it for you.
The Space Where Everything Is: Mary, the In-Between and the Sacred Ordinary
The in-between is not empty. Mary’s story shows how God meets us in ordinary waiting and quietly forms what comes next.
A Whistle So Soft — When Prayer Becomes Presence
When prayer stops feeling like something to master, silence can gather the soul and teach us how to remain with Jesus.
They Toil Not: What the Lilies Know That We’ve Forgotten
A garden's unnecessary beauty interrupts the rush to be useful, loosening worry and teaching us to receive each day as a gift.
In French, God Is Delicious
God never intended faith to be dry or distant. He invites you to taste his goodness, delight in his presence and discover that he alone can satisfy the deepest longings of your heart. When you slow down to savor who he is, worship becomes more than duty — it becomes a feast that leaves you longing for even more of him.
Created to Play: How Taking Hobbies Seriously Grows Us Spiritually
Play is more than a way to pass the time — it is one of the ways God draws us toward one another. Whether around a game board, a radio or a shared pastime, ordinary hobbies can quietly remind us that we were created for connection, not isolation. Sometimes the simplest moments of play awaken us to the deeper fellowship we were made to enjoy.
The Night Is Not Silent: Dreams, Discernment, and Divine Conversation
What fills your mind shapes far more than your thoughts — it shapes your life. God still speaks, even in the quiet of the night, bringing clarity, direction and hope to hearts willing to listen. As you learn to discern his voice from every other influence, even your dreams can become invitations to know him more deeply and walk more confidently in his purpose.
I Live Where the Machines Are Made: Staying Human
When every shortcut promises ease, discover the quiet invitation to think deeply, feel honestly and stay rooted in the voice of God.
What If I Don’t Fit in a Box?
Trying to fit someone else’s mold causes us to miss the beauty of becoming ourselves. But God isn’t asking us to become anyone else.
Why Not Say It Aloud? Learning Honest Prayer From the Psalms
The Psalms assume something many of us forget: if God already knows our hearts, why hide them? Their prayers are startlingly honest — full of praise, doubt, gratitude, grief, confession and longing. The psalmists speak freely because they trust they are fully known and still welcomed. In teaching us to bring our whole selves before God, the Psalms reveal that honest prayer is not irreverence. It is intimacy.
Maewyn's Mountain: Learning to Pray with Your Whole Life
A slave alone on Irish mountainsides, Saint Patrick learned to meet God in every moment and circumstance — wind, rain, work, fear, silence.
The Architecture of Hope: Finding Beauty in the Blurred
Hope rarely arrives all at once. More often, it appears in fragments — in birdsong through open windows, sunlight on garden leaves, burnt cookies cooling on the counter, the quiet breathing of someone you love beside you in bed. We spend much of life straining for clarity while God keeps teaching us to notice beauty in the blurred edges of ordinary days. Perhaps faith is less about possessing certainty and more about learning, again and again, to believe that even fragile things still carry the architecture of hope.
What If the Emptiness Isn’t a Punishment?
Sometimes the hardest seasons are not marked by catastrophe but by silence — prayers that feel unanswered, worship that feels hollow, a faith that suddenly seems stripped of warmth. We assume something must be wrong with us or with God. But what if the emptiness is not abandonment or punishment? What if God is teaching us to seek him, not merely the feelings he gives? The dark night may feel like loss, but often it is the slow, painful work of learning to love God for himself.
Beyond Reason but Not Against It
Faith is not the rejection of reason but the recognition that God is bigger than what reason alone can explain. Christianity begins with miracles — a resurrection, an empty tomb, a Spirit who still moves in the world. The same God who stirred kings and answered desperate prayers still works beyond human understanding today. Following Jesus means loving God with both mind and heart, learning to trust that what transcends explanation is not therefore irrational, but holy.
The God Who Has Your Back
It’s easy to believe God is disappointed in us, keeping score from a distance. But what if he’s nearer than that — speaking into the noise, pushing back on the accusations we rehearse in our own minds? The battle is often inside us. And in it, Jesus isn’t standing against us, but for us — steady, clear, reminding us what’s true when we forget.
Hide Me in You: A Prayer for the Overwhelmed
Some days, faith looks less like standing tall and more like folding low — tucking yourself into God’s presence like a child who knows where home is. Not to escape the world, but to be held within it. Hidden in him, you begin to see clearly again: beauty, fragility, joy. And from that quiet refuge, you find the courage to live fully, right where you are.
Closer Than You Think: How Religion Is Mostly Just Friendship
We often search for some hidden spiritual secret, as though holiness were a code to crack. But what if faith is far more familiar than that? Not a mystic “it” to chase, but a friendship to cultivate. Jesus’ invitation is wonderfully plain: abide in me. Stay near. Listen to my words. Let love, obedience and time do their quiet work in you.