How to Pray When Wrestling With Anxiety
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 19.1% of U.S. adults have had an anxiety disorder in the past year—and 31.1% have had one at some point in their lives. This method of praying not a magic wand. It may not replace anti-anxiety medication. But boy, it does help. If you’re a fellow anxiety sufferer, try this. It can’t hurt you. It has no unpleasant side effects. It may do you great good.
How to Experience God Outdoors
We can learn a lot about people by what they make — especially what they make for others. We can grasp the depth of their affection by the effort and care they take in the making and the beauty and utility they infuse into what’s made. When we go outdoors, into God’s own creation, we learn about him — and sometimes encounter him, too.
The Transformative Power of Art
Good art, good poetry, and true mythology communicates, without our knowing it, that life is not just a series of insulated, unrelated events. The great truths — when they can be visualized in images — reveal deep patterns, and reveal that we are a part of them.
A Day of Silence
Are you in a season of great challenge? Remember Richard Foster’s words: “The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. The Spirit speaks to us when our heart is still and silent before the Lord — not when we’re rushing about and doing our own thing in our own way.”
‘Wildcat’ A Masterful Love Letter Religious Creatives
‘Wildcat’ is a gorgeous and truthful portrayal of the inner world of a thoughtful Christian creative person. The film follows the life and fiction of the famous southern Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor (played by Maya Hawke), who wishes to be a great novelist but struggles against her growing terminal illness and rejection by her readers — both professional and personal.
Finding Love and Rest Though Unknowing
We live in a time of the 24-hour new cycle, social media, information excess and compassion fatigue — a time when sometimes unknowing is better than certain kinds of knowing.
A Vision Set The Course For My Spiritual Journey
There have been perhaps five times when the supernatural burst headlong into my mundane, drone-bee existence. For me, on average that figures out to one visitation (or whatever you want to call it, I’m not a stickler about terminology) every 12 or 15 years, although my experiences haven’t been that predictable.
New From Kingdom Story Films and The Erwin brothers: ‘Unsung Hero’
‘Unsung Hero’ follows the Smallbone family, particularly David Smallbone, the family patriarch, and his wife Helen Smallbone, as they move across the world and face numerous hardships to have a better life and help themselves and their children achieve their dreams in the music industry.
What Role Does Confession Play?
Scripture is clear: Confession is normal and necessary for followers of Jesus. It’s something many of us did spontaneously when we began following him. But it must be an ongoing thing for us, too. Why? Because we will sin anew. It’s inevitable. Therefore, we will bear new shame and want to isolate our hearts. And thus, we’ll need healing anew.
What The Church Should Do About Singleness
Christians are divided on how to think about rise of singleness. One camp sees it as a problem that needs to be solved by helping people get married. The other sees the problem as society’s privileging of marriage — and believes that it’s the church that needs to adapt to reflect shifting demographics.
Study the Bible as if It Were a Journey
God will accompany you and speak to you as you travel and explore and have adventures. Be eager but patient, too; you will hear his voice and sense his presence more clearly at some times than at others.
‘In All Your Ways Acknowledge Him’ Meaning What?
“God has very high aims for you and me. His aim is that each one of us becomes the kind of person he can empower to do what we want … that is what life is about.”
Should Community Be a Non-Negotiable?
We are meant to be together, to do life together, to be united with God and our brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ.
Entering the Story: How to Pray with Your Imagination
Entering into a gospel story with our imaginations opens us up to the work of the Holy Spirit in different ways than when we rely on our rational minds.
Vocation: Discerning Your Calling
Your life is not a series of random events. Your family background, education, and life experiences—even the most painful ones—all equip you to do some work that no one else can do.
Martin Scorsese To Produce Docuseries On The Saints
Famed movie director Martin Scorsese signed a deal with FOX Nation to produce and host an eight-part docudrama series presenting the “remarkable stories of eight men and women who risked everything to embody humanity’s most noble and complex trait—faith.”
Living Out the Liturgical Year
Becoming aware of—and living out—the Christian liturgical year allows followers of Jesus to enter into communion with him in a way that touches body, mind, and soul.
Praying Scripture: The Practice of Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina is Latin for “divine reading,” and is a practice of slowly meditating upon, praying, and being formed by God’s word. Dating as far back as the Desert Fathers of the 4th century in Egypt, this method of engaging scripture was further developed by Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the Benedictine order, in the 6th century and became central to monastic tradition.
What is Visio Divina?
Spiritual directors call meditating on a picture “Visio Divina.” Applied to a Bible passage, it’s an imaginative and refreshing form of Scripture meditation that helps us to enter into the narrative of Scripture and bring ourselves to Jesus. It’s similar to Lectio Divina, but instead of quietly listening to God through words we use a picture.