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…
What Makes You Like This?
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…
The Silent Soldier
Get Up and Walk · Week 5 · Saturday Recap · Series Finale The Silent Soldier Five weeks ago we started this series with five men the world would have counted out, and one promise running underneath all of them:…
Into the Daylight
Get Up and Walk · Week 5 · Friday Into the Daylight For twenty years his oldest friends have known him as one version of himself. The funny one. The one who could drink anyone under the table. The one…
Her Knees Were the Battlefield
Get Up and Walk · Week 5 · Thursday Her Knees Were the Battlefield His grandmother prayed for him every day of his life, and for most of that life he was nowhere near God. She never lectured him. That…
The Light They Can See
Get Up and Walk · Week 5 · Wednesday The Light They Can See Nobody at his work knows him as the religious guy. He never made it his thing. He does not corner people by the coffee machine. He…