It’s one thing to read about martyrs in church history. It’s another to walk through the dungeons where they were held, to imagine the faces of a young mother and her friends as they waited for the arena.

His faithfulness. His nearness. His worthiness. In spite of the many ways we differ from each other, this act of worship brings us together.

In this excerpt from Lost Gifts, author Brittany Allen shows us how envy and grief are not the same thing, but Jesus draws close to those afflicted by both.

The rainbow is not God’s rubber stamp on our desires. The rainbow is God’s promise that in his mercy, the war bow of heaven now points not at us, but himself.

God used the good gift of my fifth baby to bless me and reveal more about him and me. He humbled me and lifted me up.

In this excerpt from Formed to Lead, author Jason Jensen shows us how Christian leadership is often formed in the dry and desolate places of the wilderness rather than the lush comforts of the oasis.

As we meet each week, we show this broken world a picture of the coming kingdom where God's people will be gathered around the throne as one praising his name.

We’ve all experienced small-scale deaths, disappointments, and disorientation. Yet, no matter what comes, we can ask God to grow us in this privilege of praying in the Holy Spirit.

In this excerpt from Known and Loved, author Glenna Marshall helps us see how Christians need to wrestle with the difficult passages in Scripture while remembering we are deeply loved and redeemed in Christ.

We must ask God to give us a heart that is willing to kneel down and weep with those who are weeping.

Suffering, then, is not wasted. When we find ourselves in the deep waters of sorrow, grief, and lament, God is at work, growing and maturing us.

In this excerpt from Formed for Fellowship, author Kyle Worley helps us see how each of us are being formed, and our ultimate end is to be formed by the love of our God.