Welcome to the vast and rich archives of NavPress publications, opened up during this time of crisis to share words of encouragement with you, our beloved neighbors, through these weeks of isolation and grief.
Consider us a source for your #quarantinesoulcare.
Quarantine Soul Care: Fear with the Scary Element Deleted
We’re afraid when we’re suddenly caught off our guard and don’t know what to do. We’re afraid when our presuppositions and assumptions no longer account for what we’re up against, and we don’t know what will happen to us. We’re afraid when reality, without warning, is shown to be either more or other than we thought it was…
Quarantine Soul Care: A New Series
This is the first in an ongoing series during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. To engage further in the #QuarantineSoulCare series, click here.
No one gets into Christian publishing for the money. We’re in it for the love.
And it’s out of that multifaceted love that we wanted to open the vast and rich archives of NavPress publications to find words of encouragement to share with you over the next several weeks. Consider us a source for your #quarantinesoulcare.
Quarantine Soul Care: The Goodness of Being
The whole sense of Scripture, it seems to me, is that God the Father has this thing about being. He was absolutely wild about it. He kept thinking up new ways of being and new kinds of being to be. One afternoon the Son came along and said, “This is really great stuff; why don’t I go mix Us up a batch?” And God the Holy Spirit said, “Terrific! I’ll help You.”…
Quarantine Soul Care: Trusting God
As David said in Psalm 138:8,”The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me.” Because we know God is directing our lives to an ultimate end and because we know He is sovereignly able to orchestrate the events of our lives toward that end, we can trust Him…
Quarantine Soul Care: The Father is Always
Answers. Understanding. Insight. How we long for those! We want so desperately to know what is happening to us and what will become of us. When the days are dark and we feel overwhelmed by pain or sorrow or confusion, we beg for answers. We believe that…
Quarantine Soul Care: God’s Grace Opening the Veil
When Jesus’ presence seems absent in the midst of my pain, I find that canned spiritual answers and my usual spiritual disciplines, things that once helped me feel connected to him, no longer work. So one day, I try a new spiritual practice, something…
Quarantine Soul Care: Promises, Assurances, Comfort
On most mornings I turn to the Scriptures as much out of a good, lifelong habit as anything else. On some mornings I approach God’s Word with a more keen sense of purpose. And sometimes I come with a real desire to meet God. But on many occasions—often outside my daily routine of Bible intake—I turn to the Word of God out of…
Quarantine Soul Care: The Alchemy of Faith and Persistence
Perhaps one of the greatest reasons we don’t ask God for what we want or need is because we’re afraid that he won’t do it. We fear that he’ll say no, that he won’t answer the way we asked, or that he won’t even answer at all. Unanswered prayer is perhaps one of the most…
Quarantine Soul Care: Bringing Your Real Self to Jesus
Jesus does not say, “Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest.” No, Jesus opens his arms to his needy children and says, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28, NASB). The criteria for coming to Jesus is…
Quarantine Soul Care: Resist the Edit Button
“Hannah rose” (1 Samuel 1:9, ESV). What does it mean to get up off the couch when you are still hopeless? What does it mean to wait without being passive?
The Hebrew word … quwm … means “to rise up” or “to stand up.” It can also mean…