God isn’t asking you to be strong enough to handle everything. He’s asking you to trust that he’s near even in the mess.

Since the gospel has implications for every area of our lives, no area is untouched by realignment.

In this excerpt, pastor and author Jeremy Writebol challenges readers to make it their life’s ambition to share the gospel with all those around them.

We do not lose heart because we know that the day is coming when, like the Egyptian army, evil will be destroyed, and we will sing the song of the Lamb together by the sea.

God has given you a unique voice to reach a unique audience for his glory. Use it and write what’s been written.

In this adapted excerpt, pastor and author Josh Hayden shows readers the potential profit of “burying our preferences” for the sake of our shared mission.

It’s clear that the God of Job is the same Lord of steadfast love we see throughout the whole of Scriptures.

When it feels like you are experiencing a period of dryness and are struggling to see growth, turn from your shame toward Jesus.

In this excerpt, pastor and author Ray Ortlund extends the good news of the gospel to sinners lying at rock bottom, reminding readers that “…we will find such an astonishing hope nowhere else.”

We are welcomed home to God because Jesus was exiled by God. He was forsaken that we might be forgiven.

Jesus is missing from the tomb because he’s seated on the throne of heaven. And if he’s no longer in the tomb, then his rightful place is in our lives and in the lives of those around us.

In this excerpt, author Luke Cawley describes the cost of forgiveness as Jesus “bears the weight of reconciliation on his own shoulders so that our evasion, hostility, and all the accumulated grime of the years no longer need to come between us and God.”a