Run Your Race

You're surrounded by witnesses who've run before you - imperfect people who finished faithfully. Throw off what slows you down and run the race marked out for YOU. Not their race, not someone else's path - yours. I've designed it specifically for you. Run it well. – Hebrews 12:1

Sunday Read: The Unexamined Heart

David prayed: "Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Psalm 139:23-24). This is dangerous prayer - inviting God to expose what you've been hiding from yourself. Most people avoid

Search Me

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. I already know what's in your heart - the pride, fear, bitterness you're hiding. But you need to see it to address it. Ask Me to search yo

Saturday Prayer: Help Me Love My Enemy

Jesus, you command me to love my enemies and pray for those who persecute me. I have a specific enemy - someone who hurt me, betrayed me, opposed me. My natural response is hatred, desire for revenge, hope for their punishment. But you loved me when I was your enemy, died for me while I wa

Saturday Read: The Hardest Command

Jesus said: "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven" (Matthew 5:43-45). This might be Christianity's hardest command - loving people

You're surrounded by witnesses who've run before you - imperfect people who finished faithfully. Throw off what slows you down and run the race marked out for YOU. Not their race, not someone else's path - yours. I've designed it specifically for you. Run it well. – Hebrews 12:1

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Sunday Read: The Unexamined Heart

Search Me

Saturday Prayer: Help Me Love My Enemy

Saturday Read: The Hardest Command