When Anxiety Reveals Your Demand for Control

When Anxiety Reveals Your Demand for Control

Anxiety feels like it’s about your circumstances. You’re anxious because you have bills to pay, because your child is making bad choices, because you don’t know what will happen next week. But underneath the circumstances, anxiety reveals something...
When Anxiety Reveals Your Demand for Control

The Chain Reaction in Your Heart

The biblical heart is not just the seat of emotions. It’s the command center of your entire life. Your heart thinks, your heart feels, and your heart chooses. These three functions always work together in a chain reaction: what you believe shapes what you...
When Anxiety Reveals Your Demand for Control

Your Emotions Are Not Random

We live in a culture that treats emotions like weather patterns that roll in and out without warning or cause. You wake up anxious, and you think, “Where did this come from?” You snap at your spouse, and you wonder why anger bubbled up out of nowhere. You...
The Idols Among Us

The Idols Among Us

This verse is shocking when you think about it. Joshua has just led the people through this beautiful covenant renewal ceremony. They’ve rehearsed God’s faithfulness. They’ve declared their commitment to serve God alone. And then Joshua says:...
The Idols Among Us

Choose This Day

After rehearsing all of God’s faithfulness – His choosing of Abraham, His deliverance from Egypt, His protection from enemies, His provision of the Promised Land – Joshua issues a challenge: Choose. Choose this day whom you will serve. This...