On the two economies of the heart, why trying harder never pulls the root of fear, and the love that casts it out.

On learning how to pray when your heart is hurting, the verse before the famous one, and why the nearness of God is the whole of it.

On the grief and joy that arrive in the same breath, why the church often treats it as a problem, and why it is the most honest condition of faith.

Why the thing buried under the floor is never private, what it actually costs, and why confession is the door and not the bill.

On the heart that stays safe by staying shut, the tears of God at a grave, and why the open heart is the only one large enough to hold him.

If the mind is only matter, can any thought be true? C.S. Lewis, the argument from reason, and learning to carry a question rather than close it.

God will not force the door. On the road to Emmaus, the restraint that will let a person lose him, and why inattention, not refusal, is the real danger.

Hosea buys back his own wife. Why freely does not mean free, and why the hardest thing in the gospel is not to pay like Hosea but to receive like Gomer.

A series that reads our faith like the periodic table, beginning with God the Father. On the God who protects and guides, the blessing we are meant to give away, and the idols that quietly take it back.

On Psalm 73, honest questions, and why doubt was never meant to be carried alone.

On comfort, holiness, and the desperate faith that prays not my will, but yours.

On worship, self-centered hope, and what it takes to make much of Jesus.

Why we struggle to delight in Scripture, and how Psalms 1 and 2 teach us to enter a life of prayer.

On the golden calf, Moses' bold prayer, and whether the church still believes it needs the Holy Spirit.