There is a tension that we feel. Most of us know we are stuck and imperfect, broken. But focusing on the reality of our brokenness usually brings about one of two disconcerting responses: we either run to the dark place of rebellion or to the seemingly safe place of covering it up. Shame follows ...

We were designed to come to the end of ourselves again and again and again, to slip down the rungs of our ladder, until maybe, after years of reaching the end of myself, I would consider that I had a problem...that I might be stuck. I might need God. Dig into Romans 8 and face your need to be bro...

Anger is our reaction when we feel our rights are being taken from us. We get angry about not getting what we think we deserve. The problem with anger is really what we believe about God. Do we trust Him to defend us if we stop defending ourselves? Or are we too afraid of becoming a door mat? Stu...

Discontentment is plaguing the souls of women. Our houses are too small; we wear the wrong size; we can’t get pregnant; we can’t get married; we can’t afford the right jeans. We need kids who obey and hair that obeys and husbands who obey, and we need jobs that are fulfilling and enough money to ...

The things we sit and spin over are our idols. You may be spinning over what you think people think of you. Caring about what others think becomes an idol if you care more about their opinions than God's. The truth is, we worry about the things we most love. We worry about what we value. And if y...

God has an assignment for each one of us, and not because He wants us to have more to do. In fact, running around and doing every good thing is not what He wants from us. He is not pleased with random sacrificial service. He is pleased with obedience. With all the choices and decisions we have to...

We live in such disappointment when our dreams are not fulfilled, as if God owes us something here and now. And oftentimes depression and discontentment rise out of our expectations for happy, fulfilling lives here on earth rather than the hope of eternity with our God in heaven. We see in Romans...

The overarching question of this study is . . . Are you willing to die? Because until our pride, our expectations, our plans, our desires, our will, our idols, and our very self dies . . . we are stuck. Explore John 15 to gain a bigger view of God, to see what he wants from us, to see our need fo...