1. Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.
  2. Regularly reading and hearing God’s Word helps us to keep a song in our hearts.
  3. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  4. Christ's resurrection does not merely negate the bitterness of sin; it changes it into a source of divine sweetness, embodying the promise of a new life for us and a restored existence overshadowed by heavenly hope.
  5. God never delights in seeing his children struggle or suffer. But God does desire that we trust him no matter what the circumstances might look like.
  6. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  7. In an autobiographical telling, Gretchen Ronnevik shares the fate of two different fathers and the hope she has in Christ.
  8. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  9. A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
  10. We do not choose our struggles, but there is One who has chosen to always be with us.
  11. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.