The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 2 · Thursday The Thirst Returns She had been coasting so long she had forgotten she was ever thirsty. Her faith was fine. Comfortable. She went to church most weeks, believed the right things, said…
The Thirst Returns
Open Hands
The Spirit-Filled Life · Week 2 · Wednesday Open Hands For years his prayer life was basically a shrug. If God wanted him to have more, God would hand it over. He was open to it. Sort of. Open, but…
Broken Cisterns
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…
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…