Get you a friend who’ll help you renew your mind. A friend who encourages you to celebrate good news, not let you stay indifferent as a way of preparing yourself for a shoe to drop.

It takes humility, doesn’t it? To admit we’re ruined and need renewal.

We are a people of new things. We like upgrades and do overs. We ship out the old and ring in the new.

Sometimes we assume it’s been too long, or we’re too far gone; the mistakes and the sins are too vast, too egregious. Sometimes we assume that because we willingly jumped into the pit and hung out there like an actual pig in slop that we’ve lost our chance.

We’re told to wait on God to renew our strength. That if we wait on Him, we’ll spread our wings and soar like eagles.

He needed renewal. I didn’t even know his name, but I could tell by his actions and words he was in desperate need of a soul restoration.

She is an amazing wife and mother—she makes new and innovative meals regularly; full bellies and clean floors are her ministry.

It's an unusually warm day for early spring and I sat on the porch with my face in the sun. The birds sang from the bare trees as the darned woodpeckers feasted on our house.

Church in the Philippines was unlike anything I’d seen before. Every man, woman and child worshipping and praising God with abandon, the freshness of the Word of God visible on their faces.