Help! How Do I Know What to Read in the Bible?
This guide will help us anytime we want to read the Bible, but aren’t sure where to start
God Is Enough
One of the many great things about having a personal friendship with God is that he satisfies.
How to Fight the Temptation to Quit
Jesus endured the pressures of sin, and we can learn from him how to do the same.
A New Way To Think About Church
The church in the New Testament was made strong by the powerful walk with God of each individual Christian.
5 Qualities Of A Biblical Church
We have to decide whether we want a biblical or a traditional church.
How Do I Help a Friend Through a Storm?
God doesn’t want any of us to go through storms […]
The High Cost of Holding On
A biblical guide to letting go of stubbornness and opening our hearts to God.
Audiobook Preview: Rebuilding Our Emotional Lives
Building or rebuilding our emotional lives will allow us to grow our character as we walk with God and develop our strength from the inside out.
Jesus’ Purpose Transformed the World
In this episode, we learn how to build a church on hope the way Jesus did—by cultivating purpose, humility, endurance, impact, and inspiration.
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Help
4 spiritual habits of people who stay strong in storms.
The Latest
Never Give Up!
In our moments of frustration and failure, we need to turn to God and his Word to find the strength to keep going.
Don’t Lose Heart!
7 signs of discouragement that we often miss, and how the Bible tells us to defeat them.
The River, The Tree, And My Friends
Returning to God is the only way we can stop living for people, stop being afraid of being different, and rediscover what it means to think differently.
The Radical Faith of the First Christians
In this episode, we learn how to live a life of constant renewal and love so we can change the world by inspiring those who don’t yet follow Jesus to get to know him.
Pray the Stress Away
Through prayer, we can give God our stressed, afraid, and burdened hearts and find relief.
Building on Christ Alone
If we don’t have a biblical view of Jesus, we can become consumed with our personal preferences and traditions, and resistant to change.
Turning Unhealthy Thoughts Into Healthy Ones
We are excited to present to you an excerpt from the audio version of our upcoming book He’s Not Who You Think He Is: Dropping Your Assumptions and Discovering God for Yourself.
The Power of the Church in God’s Plan
The church of the Bible was dynamic, powerful, and life-changing. So why has church attendance today been declining?
Dropping Your Assumptions and Discovering God for Yourself
Our new book is a guide to seeing God in a healthy way, softening our hearts to be close to him, and inspiring the world around us to discover him too.
The Happiness Ripple Effect: Why Sharing Joy Matters
When we get our happiness from God, we want to share that happiness with others.
Beating anxiety
How to Spend Time With God and Leave at Peace
Let’s look at how Moses, David, and Hannah’s experience spending time with God changed their hearts and lives.
DIY: Finding Peace in an Anxious World
This is a study on how to stay calm and be at peace even when life gets crazy. Whether school is stressing you out, you feel anxious about the future, or you have conflict in relationships with friends or family that you’re afraid to deal with, God wants to be a place of refuge even in the midst of chaos.
4 Stories of Courage in the Bible That Will Make You Bold
These Bible stories about trusting God will inspire you to battle anxiety and negative thinking with faith.
How to Stop Worrying and Start Trusting God: 15 Helpful Tips
These 15 Bible verses on overcoming anxiety with God will help you remain calm no matter what life throws at you.
Deep Spirituality Lite, Day 1: A Good Day Gone Bad
Have you ever had that feeling? Everything is going about as well as it can go, and then you begin to wonder, “how long can this last?”
10 Scriptures About God’s Timing to Ease An Anxious Mind
Trusting that God’s timing is always right can calm our anxious mind when we can’t see solutions to problems we’re facing or when we’re worried about the future.
The Comprehensive Prayer Guide for the Chronically Worried
Spirituality is the ability to let go of control and learn to turn to God in prayer.
How Spirituality Will De-Stress Your Social Life
The Bible can help us make choices that decrease our anxiety about social interactions
Fear is the Faith Killer
Can you relate to the frustration of trusting God the least when you need him the most?
How To Manage Your Home During The Pandemic
In the midst of dealing with the ongoing stress of 2020 and the pandemic, it can be easy to just want to run away and hope all of our problems will be magically solved. But no matter where we run, our stress doesn’t leave us.
6 Ways to Surrender Anxiety
Join Russ and friends as they conclude their podcast series on Why Anxiety is the Enemy of Spirituality, and discuss helpful and practical ways to break free from the grip anxiety has on many of our lives.
Where Is God When I’m Stressed?
In this episode, we discuss the inevitable stress that comes not only with going back to school, but also in any stressful time of life.
How Do I Trust God When I’m Worried?
In today’s Mini Quiet Time, we’ll give you 3 practical tips from the Bible for how you can start trusting God when you feel worried.
Surrender Anxiety By Losing Control
As we all learn how to walk with God then we will know how to be still with Him. Part 3 of our “Coming Home” series.
How to Do Well Spiritually Over Thanksgiving
Letting go of holiday related worry learning to rely on God.
How to Overcome Selfishness by Dealing with Worry
And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of […]
Staying Focused On What Really Matters In The Midst Of Worry
When we get caught up in the stress of life, we miss out on the peace and contentment God really wants to give us. We must decide to dig deep in our hearts to find the source of our anxiety and worry so that God can relieve and heal us.
Your Anxious Striving Is Making You Angry
Do you ever feel overly agitated and irritated, but don’t know why? Oftentimes, anger and frustration are masks for unresolved anxiety. We need to discover what is underneath our worry so God can bring us peace.
Why Anxiety is the Enemy of Spirituality
The opportunity and expectation of growth from God is really a call to walk with him, to allow him to transform our lives through the power of the Spirit.
Why Am I So High-Strung? 5 Signs Your Anxiety is Owning You
Ever asked yourself, “why am I always irritated?” These scriptures will help shed some light on the source of your high-strung personality.
A Bible Study on Staying Focused (for the Chronically Anxious)
Do you find yourself constantly distracted or overwhelmed? Use these scriptures on focus to help you identify and calm your reactionary anxiety.
10 Ways to Know If Your Soul Is Tired
… and what you can do about it
How Do I Turn to Prayer For Anxiety, Worry, and Fear?
If you’ve ever wondered how to ask God for help with anxiety, you’re not alone. It can seem difficult to have a prayer for anxiety, fear, and worry. The Bible says that the soothing comfort of God’s presence can calm down the busiest mind.
Feeling Anxious? Try These Scriptures On Frustration
Learning how to deal with frustration Biblically is key to taming the anxiety that often accompanies anger.
Devotionals, videos, podcasts and more
How To Walk With God When Life Is Breaking You
When life is tough, it’s easy to want to get angry or give up.
One Quick Thought: How to Fight the Temptation to Quit
Endurance is one of the most important qualities Jesus had, and it’s one we should all learn to develop
One Quick Thought: 5 Qualities of a Biblical Church
The church of the New Testament embodied five qualities that we can learn from if we want to build a biblical church
3 Useful Tips to Calm Big Emotions
We need to make space in our hearts by sharing what we feel with God.
One Quick Thought: Strong Churches Walk Humbly with God
Jesus shows us how to walk with God. Even though he was equal to God, he chose to humble himself in prayer and rely on God’s power.
One Quick Thought: Find Your ‘Why’
A lot of people are searching for hope right now, and we can find that hope if we look at Jesus
One Quick Thought: Change Ourselves, Change the World
In 30 years, the church in the book of Acts changed the world.
One Quick Thought: Where Churches Go Wrong
If we don’t have a biblical view of Jesus, we can become consumed with our personal preferences and traditions, and resistant to change.
Unboxing Our First Book!
In today’s video, you can watch us unbox our new book for the first time ever.
One Quick Thought: What’s the Point of Church, Anyway?
The church of the Bible was dynamic, powerful, and life-changing.
The Ultimate Love Story: God’s Pursuit of Intimacy with You
God continually pursues intimacy and closeness with each of us.
One Quick Thought: The Happiness Ripple Effect
It makes God happy to share his joy and love with us.
How I Read the Bible When I Feel Depressed
Through one person sharing their story and the scriptures that help them, we hope to give faith and creative ideas to others who may be battling similar challenges.
Start Your Morning Right
The morning is a precious time to connect with God.
God’s Love Calms Me
We are not meant to carry our fears, guilt, insecurities, or anxieties alone.
Conquering Your Inner Critic: How to Overcome Confidence Killers
God wants us to be close to him and guides us along the best pathway for our lives through the Bible.
God Is a Friend
God is relational; he wants a friendship with us, not a religious performance.
God’s Blueprint for Real Happiness
When we have the certainty that God loves us completely for who we are, we can be satisfied no matter what.
One Quick Thought: God’s Blueprint for Real Happiness
Are you easily satisfied? Satisfied people are calm, happy, and easygoing.
Why Do I Get So Defensive?
Trusting God helps me lower my defenses and listen to him as he helps me become the person I’m meant to be.
What Do I Do If I Feel Invisible
God notices what we go through, even if no one else does, and he wants to do something about our pain.
One Quick Thought: Enjoying God Daily
We are meant to delight in God and enjoy spending time with him each and every day.
The Secret to Happiness: Enjoying God Daily
God is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured or feared.
God’s Purpose in Putting People in Your Life
As a Christian, you are meant to share your faith, telling people about your belief in and relationship with God.
4 Psalms You Should Read When Your Emotions are Overwhelming
The Psalms are a collection of prayers from people who felt strong emotions and let God turn their darkness into light.
Do Not Be Afraid
God commands us not to give into our fear and reminds us that he will never fail us.
Happiness Starts with A Choice: How to Find Happiness on God’s Terms
Happiness starts with a choice: where (or to whom) will we turn to find it?
One Quick Thought: Happiness Starts with a Choice
Happiness starts with a choice: where, or to whom, will we turn to find it?
4 Habits to Build if You Want Good Friendships, According to the Bible
The Bible is full of people who have learned from God how to be friends that understand, connect with, admire, challenge, and love each other.
God Keeps His Promises
We have a God who always keeps his promises, and we can find those promises in the Bible.
You’re Allowed to Be Happy: The Connection Between God and Your Happiness
Relying on an unchangeable God will help us stay steady and happy no matter what happens in our lives.
One Quick Thought: The Connection Between God and Your Happiness
We may look to many places or people to find happiness, but ultimately God is how we stay happy and have inner peace.
The Self-Reliance Paradox: How to Stop Going it Alone and Fully Rely on God
We have to have a clear understanding of our limitations so we can know where we can look to God for help.
How to Completely Change a Negative View of God
It’s important to regularly search our hearts and make sure our view of God is healthy.
What if I Don’t Understand Myself?
The parables of Jesus show that he understands you, can help you understand yourself, and help you understand God.
Reset with God: How to Get Out of a Spiritual Burnout
We need to acknowledge what is wearing us out, especially the ways in which we become focused on rules and behaviors.
One Quick Thought: How to Get Out of a Spiritual Burnout
God and the Bible give us solutions to dealing with spiritual burnout so we don’t get knocked down and give up.
Need to Face a Painful Truth? 3 Promises from God about Being Honest With Yourself
We can use these psalms as a guide for ourselves when we need to find the courage to come into the light and grow.
Believe in the Impossible
Even when we face the impossible, we can still have faith because God can do anything.
The Church Exodus: Why Attendance is Declining in America
The way we live and conduct ourselves will greatly influence others’ view of seeking out God and a spiritual community.
One Quick Thought: The Church Exodus: Why Attendance is Declining in America
Our faith can show other people the power of God and inspire them to draw closer to him.
15 of God’s Promises That Will Anchor You When Life Feels Unsteady
A collection of God’s promises that will anchor you, even when it feels like everything else is falling apart.
God Cares for Me
When we’re worried, weary, or hurting, we need to know that God has our back; he loves and cares for us.
Rebuilding Our Relationships After COVID
We need to evaluate how the pandemic has influenced the way we build relationships if we are going to move forward toward God’s destiny for us and our friends.
One Quick Thought: Rebuilding Our Relationships After COVID
Christianity in its purest form is about loving one another deeply from the heart.
You Matter: Understanding the Overwhelming, Never-Ending, Reckless Love of God
The Bible says that the love of Christ makes us “complete” and gives us a full life along with the power that comes from God.
How to Trust God, Get Over Failure, and Try Again
When we choose to trust God, we will see God do more than we could ever imagine.
How Do I Persist in Prayer?
We have dreams we want to see happen and visions we want to accomplish, but it takes a lot of energy to keep running toward them.
4 Ways To Open Your Heart To God
We can open our hearts up to him by listening, talking, turning, and committing to being close to him.
One Quick Thought: 4 Ways To Open Your Heart To God
When our hearts have been closed and vulnerability has become difficult, we need God’s help to open up again.
Silencing the Crowd: Getting Past Our Preoccupation with People to Find Jesus
Let’s look at how we can calm our people-pleasing, quiet our people-focus, and silence our drive to rely on ourselves so we can find Jesus’ purpose for our lives.
God Has a Purpose for Me
God wants us to both have our own happy and satisfying life and to help others have an opportunity for that life, too.
God Is Great
As we walk closely with God, he makes us great too, giving us the power to live remarkable lives.
The Most Powerful Question You Are Probably Not Asking As A Christian
Esther was able to endure because she asked herself one question.
Don’t Give Up: How to Pray Your Way out of Dark Times
In our most difficult moments, in our most hopeless times, and in our darkest days, prayer is the way out.
How Do I Trust God and Try Again?
We all experience feeling stuck at times, whether it be in hardships, relationship conflicts, failures that follow us wherever we go, or guilt that feels too big for us to carry on our own.
God Is With You: Promises about Jesus
It helps to remember an important quality of Jesus — that he is always with us.
Are You Willing to Try Again?
Learning from Jesus to see past our failures and find our potential.
How To Love Vulnerability
When we love vulnerability, we will open our hearts to God and others.
One Quick Thought: How To Love Vulnerability
Open hearts embrace vulnerability, trusting that God will make up for whatever we may be lacking.
Greatest hits
Announcing Our First Book
We are excited to tell you about a new project that has been born out of all the work we have done thus far on Deep Spirituality.
How to Have Faith When It Seems So Hard To Hope
Hope is what keeps us going when our desires seem to go unfulfilled and hard times come our way.
God’s Love Never Fails
A lot of the problems we get into in life come because we are searching for love—often in all the wrong places.
What is the Good News?
How to experience the hope and healing that Jesus brings.
One Quick Thought: Why Are We Afraid Of Vulnerability?
God wants to help open our hearts so we can see and hear him moving in our lives.
Why Are We Afraid Of Vulnerability?
God wants to give us the help we need, but we have to be willing to be vulnerable enough to ask him for it.
What Does it Mean to Be Strong?
Vulnerability is usually not the first thing we associate with being strong, but the Bible tells us true strength actually comes from embracing our weaknesses.
There is Always Hope
What the Birth of Jesus Teaches Us about God.
Why Vulnerability Helps Us See Our Need For God
In our premiere episode of One Quick Thought, learn how vulnerability is one of the key ways we discover our need for God.
Podcast: Why Vulnerability Helps Us See Our Need For God
We’ll be vulnerable with God when we believe he loves us, is interested in us, and has a plan for us.
‘Tis the Season for Hope
The holidays are a time to celebrate hope, and there’s nothing greater than the hope God brings with the birth of Jesus.
Humility 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Not Going It Alone
If you, like me, have a difficult time not going it alone, then you’ve come to the right place.
Always Be Thankful
Check out our newest Spiritual Playlist to learn how to always be thankful.
How to Make Your Relationship With God Personal (Mini Quiet Time)
Check out our newest Mini Quiet Time to learn more about how to make your relationship with God personal.
It’s Okay to Be Different: 10 People in the Bible Who Will Give You the Courage to Be Yourself
The Bible gives us a lot of examples of people who found the courage to be themselves by believing that God loved them for who they were.
God Understands Me
No matter what we’re feeling, God understands us. In fact, […]
6 Signs You’ve Been Making Wrong Assumptions about God
Our relationship with God should always be changing and growing. That’s one of the things that makes it exciting.
How Do I Defeat My Doubts?
Check out this week’s Mini Quiet Time to learn from Jesus how to defeat your own doubts.
How Do I Overcome My Fear of Vulnerability?
In this week’s Mini Quiet Time, we’ll look at a story where Jesus had to choose to be vulnerable and what came as a result of his decision.
How Do I Learn To Pray From The Psalms?
In today’s Mini Quiet Time we’ll look at Psalm 13, one of the psalms where David talked to God about some tough things but comes out closer to God as friends.
Why Is Everything So Hard?
Check out our new Mini Quiet Time, where in Psalm 32, David comes to God to help him deal with the clutter of his heart.
4 Choices We Make to Distance Ourselves from God (Without Realizing We’re Doing It)
The more we actively decide to be close to God, the easier it becomes to choose to love in relationships with people as well.
How Do I Love People When They Make it Hard?
Though Zacchaeus came with baggage, Jesus’ decision to love anyway completely changed Zacchaeus’ life for the better.
How Do I Know if I’m Walking by Faith?
A 10-question spiritual checkup to help you confidently believe God’s promises
The Story of Gideon: From Living Small to Leading Strong
The story of Gideon in the Bible shows us how God can shape any of us into strong leaders if we’re willing to take one (very small) step of faith at a time.
Are You Sure You’ve Got the Right Guy?
What Gideon, an unlikely hero, can teach us about having the faith to trust God’s process
What If I’m Not Good Enough?
Join us as we explore Hannah’s journey to confidence through her relationship with God with our newest Mini QT podcast.
Where is God When I’m Insecure?
Join us as we discuss how to turn to God when we feel insecure.
What Does It Really Mean to “Trust in God”?
Take a look at some of the incredible ways trusting in God changes our lives, and how we can make decisions to put our trust into practice.
30 Days to a Thankful Heart
Sign up today and join us on the journey to a more grateful, happier life.
How Can I Really Be Happy?
In the story of Martha and Mary, we can learn from Jesus how prioritizing our relationships with God and people can truly make us happy.
How to Build (and Keep) a Close Relationship with God
Learn to walk with God, experience his presence in your life, and avoid drifting away from him.
Why Are There So Many Rules in Christianity?
Jesus can teach us how to break free from a frustrating, unsatisfying, and rule-dominated experience of Christianity to find a real relationship with God.
The Parable of the Good Samaritan: Heart, Not Habit
When we love God with all of our hearts, we will have the capacity to love people wholeheartedly and live out the exciting destiny God has for each of us.
The Myth of the Perfect Family
Join us as we delve into how not to be perfect parents, but to be parents that love and help our kids grow.
The Rich Young Ruler: How to Stop Seeing Rules and Start Seeing Relationship
Jesus loved the rich young ruler enough to offer him a way out of rule-following by asking him to make a decision to be close to him.
How Do I Talk to God When I Feel Guilty?
What the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector can teach us about talking to God when we feel guilty.
Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector: God Is Real When We Are Real
Because God has unlimited mercy, we can feel confident that anything we bring up to him will be met with compassion, understanding, and forgiveness.
The Ask, the Risk, and Trusting God: The Parable of the Forgiven Debt
Join Amy, Jynette, and Michele as they discuss this incredible parable and how we can respond to God’s love too.
The Forgiven Woman and the Parable of the Forgiven Debt: How God’s Love Becomes Personal
In this devotional, we’ll learn to focus on connection instead of criticism, being grateful instead of being good, and letting God teach us to love.
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