The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 2 · Tuesday Broken Cisterns Every night he fills the same cup, and every morning it is empty again. The day wrings him out, so the evening has a shape to it. The couch, the…
Broken Cisterns
Running on Empty
The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 2 · Monday Running on Empty He is the one everybody leans on, and the cup is empty. He is the strong one. The provider, the fixer, the steady hand who carries the weight so…
You Can’t Fill Yourself
The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 2 · Sunday You Can’t Fill Yourself Last week we asked one question all week long. Is your fire burning, or idle? This week we walk straight into the question that leaves sitting on the…
Burning or Idle
The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 1 · Saturday Recap Burning or Idle This week we asked one question five different ways. Are we burning, or idle? Five Ordinary Fires We watched a dad turn the car around to return the…
What Makes You Like This?
The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 1 · Friday What Makes You Like This? The hardest season of her life did not look the way her daughter expected it to. There had been a loss in the family, the kind that…
Restore, in gentleness.
The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 1 · Thursday When the Rules Run Out For eighteen years he had been the one who made the rules and made them stick. Bedtimes, screens, who was driving, what time the door opened. It…
The Letter They Read
The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 1 · Wednesday The Letter They Read The young man could win any argument about God, and for a while he wanted to have all of them. Home in his early twenties, sharpened by years…
The Warm Room
The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 1 · Tuesday The Warm Room He was a quiet kid, and he was disappearing. Fifteen years old, mostly online, and the corners of the internet he had wandered into were cold ones. The kind…
They’re Watching
The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 1 · Monday They’re Watching The words had gone stale in his house years ago. He talked about faith at dinner, in the car, at bedtime. His thirteen year old had heard all of it,…
Burning or Idle
The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 1 · Sunday Burning or Idle We started Stumble Up in an orchard. The first thing we ever did here was walk through Fruitful and put the fruit of the Spirit on the table. Love…