Who’s Praying and Why? / Spiritual Meditations

Do you think your spiritual leaders’ prayers are more likely to be heard by God than your prayers? How does prayer work?

Your Unique Ability to Talk to God / Spiritual Meditations

God doesn’t need our bodies to access our minds. As Tennyson wrote in a poem, “closer is He then breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.”

How to Act Yourself into Faith / Spiritual Meditations

Jesus presents the journey of faith as a personal pilgrimage begun in uncertainty and fragile trust. As we act according to God’s will we form common ground with Him and our assurance grows.

Tragedy-Can Anything Good Come Out of It? / Spiritual Meditations

For many people, it takes the jolt of tragedy, illness, or death to create an existential crisis of faith. At such a moment, we want clarity while God wants our trust. How do we respond?

God’s Direction Through Rejection / Spiritual Meditations

Just as God supernaturally opens doors, sometimes God supernaturally closes doors. Read these true story examples.

You are More than the World Perceives / Spiritual Meditations

You are so much more than what you’ve known or done. You could never be accurately measured by what you own or lack. You belong.

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Pray to be Different / Spiritual Meditations

So often we choose to face life’s issues and circumstances in exactly the same way as someone without the Spirit of God.

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Working with the Spirit Radicalizes Your Faith / Spiritual Meditations

Being filled with the Spirit is not a one-time act. but an ongoing pursuit of a relationship. We are asked to play an active role in our journey to freedom.

Forget About God’s Will for Your Life / Spiritual Meditations

Francis Chan addresses a question that many of us have struggled with and clarifies why few of us have ever received God’s answer.