Sunday CHEW
A storm clears over open water, and for a moment the surface holds nothing but light — no ripple of what just passed through it, no memory of the wind. If you stood at the shore and watched only that stillness, you’d never guess a storm had been there at all. That kind of clean,…
Most of us picture the evidence of God as something faint — a whisper we have to quiet ourselves to catch, a private nudge reserved for people with a particular kind of spiritual sensitivity. It’s a picture that makes God’s presence feel rare and effortful to detect. Scripture describes something closer to the opposite. Before…
Peter stood in a room he had spent his whole life being taught to avoid. Cornelius was a Roman centurion — a Gentile, a soldier, everything Peter’s upbringing had filed under “outside.” Three days earlier, a vision of unclean animals lowered on a sheet had left him arguing with God about what could and couldn’t…
There is a word Paul says a Spirit-filled believer actually cries out, not just believes: Abba. Not a title you’d use for a supervisor, a board chair, or a client — not language built for a relationship you have to keep earning. It’s the word a toddler uses reaching up in the dark, certain of…
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s Love From Head to Heart for Christian Professionals His power is perfected in weakness. Not after you clean up. Not when you finally measure up. Right where you feel smallest. God speaks galaxies into being — then chooses, in Christ, to display His glory at a cross. His strength is not…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢ Moving God’s Love From Head to Heart for Christian Professionals The Father ran first. The son rehearsed his confession. The Father had the robe ready. The son walked back. The Father ran forward. This is who He is. He does not start with performance. He does not stop with failure. He has named…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals His name is Jealous. Not as a metaphor. Not as a mood. As an identity. Exodus 34:14 does not say God sometimes feels jealous. It says the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. That word — jealous — may be…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals He is the God who finishes what He starts. Before the mountains existed, before a single human heart beat for the first time, He was already a promise-making God. And from that first promise in a garden — spoken over a broken world…