LifeLift

Back in 2014, a child-therapist my family visited for a season described stress in a revealing way. Kristen, the counselor, likened our souls to balloons… “You can blow a balloon up,” she said, moving her hands larger...

It’s easy to forget that we’re truly valuable… 🔥 that we bear the image of the Creator 🔥 that we’re chosen, Holy, and dearly loved (Colossians 3:12-13) 🔥 that He promised we’re never separated from His love (Romans...

We’re promised two gifts that we each desperately want and need come when we take the hurts and pains of the past, stop hiding them, and move into the light: 🎁 Connection = that is, we find we’re not alone, we meet...

In this talk we discuss the notion that everyone is “window shopping.” We’re constantly looking for a better plan, a different program, or more reliable steps to take us where we want to be. In the same way that we...

I don’t know where I first got the thought— “we seem more confident in the enemy’s ability to deceive us— and to steal, kill, and destroy— than we are about Jesus’ ability to heal and mend and restore all things.” I...

We have a lot of crazy ideas about God. Lots of them. We talk about His discipline- and how harsh it can be. How he scourges us to get us “in line.” As if God is very much like the high school hall monitor that was...

Over the past few years it’s become popular in hipster-ish types of churches (not that I’m opposed to ANY expression of the church) to say things that SOUND right but actually breakdown to “nothing” when placed under...

I knew a pastor who used to say, “God’s in a good mood.” To his dying day, he’d chuckle- in a serious way- when he said it. He was convinced that God was absolutely happy. Somehow, I was totally uncomfortable with...

What is God actually like? That’s a big question— and one that matters. You see, we practically “live out” our beliefs, even those we’re not aware of. And, one of the biggest, most important beliefs is what we think...

A few weeks ago I met Andy Mason… online. We’re in a common Facebook group, because we use the same software to run our websites… One of his posts led to an offline conversation which led to us swapping books. He was...

The Lord established an everlasting covenant with David in 2 Samuel 7:16. He promised an offspring of his would always sit on the throne. Notably, this occurred BEFORE David committed adultery with Bathsheba and then...

“Repressed emotions are unfinished business,” David Stewart writes— they highlight pages in the past that continuing altering our story in the present” (Healing Oils of the Bible, p116). As this relates to pain in the...