Casting All Your Care: How to Give Your Worries to God (1 Peter 5:7)
There’s an old story preachers have told for generations. A tired farmer is trudging down a dirt road with a heavy sack of grain on[…]
Drawn Away and Enticed: What James Teaches About How Temptation Works
Spend an early morning on a Minnesota lake and watch a good fisherman work. He doesn’t drop a bare hook over the side and hope[…]
Be Not Weary in Well Doing: How to Keep Serving When You See No Fruit
Drive through southern Minnesota in the middle of May, and you’ll pass mile after mile of fields where nothing seems to be happening. The ground[…]
What Does the Bible Say About Pride? Why God Resists the Proud and Gives Grace to the Humble
Drive past a wheat field in late August, just before harvest, and look closely at the heads of grain. The ones that filled out well[…]
Learning Contentment: What the Bible Says About Being Content in Every Season
Out in farm country, you’ll often find an old rain barrel sitting under the corner of a barn roof. In a wet spring it runs[…]
Tried, Trusting, and Triumphant: Finding Hope in Christ When Life Is Hard
TL;DR — Hope in Christ when life is hard is not the absence of pressure but the presence of a treasure: the light of the[…]
Why Does God Feel Silent? What the Bible Says About Unanswered Prayer
There is a stretch of every spring when a farmer has nothing at all to show for his work. He put the seed in the[…]
Presumptuous Sins: Presuming on God and Assuming About Others
Key takeaways: A presumptuous sin is deliberate, eyes-open sin committed with confidence that God will let it slide — whether by presuming on His grace[…]
A Root of Bitterness: What Hebrews 12:15 Says About the Thing Growing Underneath
Key takeaways: Hebrews 12:15 warns of a “root of bitterness” — hidden, growing resentment planted by a real offense that, left unchecked, springs up to[…]
Set a Watch Before My Mouth: What the Bible Says About Taming the Tongue
Key takeaways: James 3 teaches that the tongue, though small, directs the whole life like a bit directs a horse or a rudder steers a[…]