Worship & Devotion
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…
Picture the moment before you’ve made your case. Before the apology lands, before the explanation is ready, before you’ve promised to do better — that moment, unfinished and unimpressive, is exactly the moment Romans 5:8 says God moved. He didn’t wait in the wings for you to qualify for His love. He gave you his…
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…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals He is the God who keeps. Before any Christian Believer ever learned to discipline his thoughts, before any morning practice was begun, before any prayer was spoken at first light, He was already the One who keeps the mind that turns toward Him…
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…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals A God Who Comforts Where No One Else Can Reach There is a God who does not flinch at the complexity of this day. He sees the mother being celebrated at brunch and the ache she carries that no one at the table…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals God is not in a hurry. Not because He is indifferent to what you are carrying. Not because He has overlooked the prayer you have prayed for the fourteenth time. Not because your situation is too small for His attention or too complicated…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Before He called Lazarus out of the tomb, Jesus wept. He did not rush to the miracle. He did not correct the theology of the grieving. He did not scold Mary for her fury or shame her for refusing to meet Him when…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals God does not save anyone into isolation. From the beginning, He has been a gathering God. He walked with Adam in the garden. He called a people — not a person — out of Egypt. He pitched His tabernacle in the center of…