We must stop pitting head knowledge and heart wonder against each other. The God we worship created us to love him with all our hearts and with all our minds.

It’s not that failure doesn’t matter. Failure just doesn’t have to have the last word in our lives.

In this excerpt, Kaitlin Chappell Rogers shows how God will always give us what we need and our responsibility is to follow him wherever he leads us.

Bring both the disappointment and the gratitude to God. Let him ask the questions you’d rather avoid and trust him with the outcomes you wanted but didn’t get.

If they know I am experiencing comfort and peace in the middle of my cancer, their hearts pause even further, at least for a moment, to hear the story of God’s comforting love in Christ.

In this excerpt, theologian Ronni Kurtz discusses the potential ways theology can be misused, but also highlights the joy theology can produce in those who handle it rightly.

Self-control is only one fruit of the Spirit, but it is one that is necessary for all of them.

When our formulas fail, or when God's answer to our pleas for relief is "not right now" or "not in the way you hoped," we can be confident these are gifts that will ultimately show God’s power being perfected in our weakness.

God made creation beautiful for his own glory and so he can delight in it. Creation’s goodness and wonder testify to God’s infinitely greater majesty.

For man, contentment is found in appreciating the simple pleasures of a life sustained by a God who grants daily provision and who has given us some sense that there is more going on than what we can perceive.

We love like Jesus when we enter into the hard, mundane, or lowly tasks of the life of a suffering loved one.

That is the work we are doing on every page, learning how to build bridges between who we were and who we are becoming, between what we’ve survived and what we still long to heal.