In the story of these two men heading to Emmaus (Luke 24), Jesus walks up behind them on that dusty road and asks what the two are discussing. “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” one of them says. “What things?” Jesus…
Are you staring an obstacle in the face and wondering where you took a left turn when you should have stayed right? The demands here and now have seized your time, and you’ve abandoned your desires and dreams because the situation looks overwhelming. Maybe in the midst of the struggle, you’re still sizing up the…
If you’re a believer, you know the end of this story… we win! Yet some days the battles seem unbearable. In our minds we know we win, but our actions tell the world we lost the war. Recently, I completed a week-long fast. It was only a few hours before I began to feel the…