For Your Heart Today We spend a lot of time asking, What am I supposed to do? What is my purpose? Where can I serve? What does God want from me in this season? But perhaps there is a question that comes first: How am I being with God? When Luke introduces Tabitha, he doesn't begin with everything she did. He begins with who she was: a disciple. Her life was rooted in her relationship with Jesus,...

For Your Heart Today Have you ever looked at your life and wondered, How did I get here? The season you are in today did not begin when you think it began. It is part of a much longer story—a story filled with beginnings and endings, joys and disappointments, choices you made and circumstances you never would have chosen. When we look back, we may see what happened to us. But with God’s help, we...

For Your Heart Today Life comes in seasons, and sometimes we are living in more than one at the same time. We can be celebrating in one part of life and grieving in another, planting something new while letting go of something old. Some seasons we choose. Others choose us. Ecclesiastes reminds us that while we cannot see how every season fits into the whole of our lives, God can. We see the threa...

For Your Heart Today We usually meet Judas at the end of his story—the betrayal, the thirty pieces of silver, the name that has become synonymous with treachery. But Judas did not begin there. Judas was one of the Twelve. Jesus prayed before choosing His apostles, and Judas was among those He called close. He walked with Jesus, heard His teaching, witnessed His works, and participated in His min...

For Your Heart Today What happens to our passions, our causes, and even our anger about what is wrong when we give them to Jesus? Simon was known as “the Zealot”—a man marked by strong passion and fierce commitment. Yet Jesus called Simon into a community that included Matthew, a tax collector whose life represented much of what Simon likely opposed. Jesus called them both, gave them a new allegi...