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Quarantine Soul Care: Change Your Thought Patterns
When rain falls on a hill, the water drains off. How does it drain off? In rivulets. Initially, they are just small rivulets, but each time rain falls, the rivulets cut deeper and deeper. They can become deep chasms.
Now let’s compare these rivulets with thought patterns in our minds. The longer we think along any given line…
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…
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: 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: 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…
Remember – To Save Your Life
I just got home to Kodiak last night from visiting all my children. (We left when there were just 1,000 COVID-19 cases in the U.S. The world changed in a single week.) The airports and planes were empty. It was eerie. I felt like a character in the Left Behind series. What? Everyone…
The Treasonous Act of Small Children Waving Branches
This post originally appeared on the author’s blog at catherinemcniel.com. Like many churches, we have a Palm Sunday procession to mark the beginning of Holy Week. When I dropped my…
Party of One, This Way, Please!
Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. Philippians 2:4, NLT “You can’t have a ministry here for women only!” the older woman…
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…
Coronavirus, Porn, and Anxiety: When Three Pandemics Converge
This post originally appeared on the author’s blog at Jay-Stringer.com. Times of uncertainty like the one we’re in naturally intensify anxiety and powerlessness, and with it, the spread of pornography…