I think all of us feel small at one point or another. The world can be a big, cold, unforgiving place. And there are always those folks who suspect we’re too big for our britches, who want to take us down a notch. How does anyone ever not feel small, honestly? We can project this

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Eugene Peterson lived the joy of the Christian life. Intent on sharing it with others, he found himself translating the Bible for his congregation. A scholar of the Greek and Hebrew languages, Peterson worked to get the ancient text in their language while being true to the Bible’s original languages. Peterson never tired of sharing

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By Tricia Lott Williford, excerpted from Just. You. Wait. The waiting room can be the hardest place to be. It is often filled with questions and doubts—not only about what will happen next, but whether God is even paying attention. In the waiting rooms of my life, I’ve been tempted to believe that God is

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Taken from And Yet, Undaunted: Embraced by the Goodness of God in the Chaos of Life by Paula Rinehart and Connally Gilliam. C. S. Lewis said that “God whispers to us in our pleasures”—but he “shouts in our pain.” God’s megaphone rouses us out of our deafness.[1] I found that to be so. A bit of

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