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2 Small Things I Do When I Struggle to be Faithful
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If you love to-do lists, you’d enjoy creating goals for the day and ticking off every task you accomplish.
When it comes to our spiritual walk, however, it's tricky to measure progress with a to-do app or list.

3 Things to Do When You’re Feeling Demotivated in Ministry
“Apathy” was ranked as the single biggest concern of 2022, according to Lifeway Research’s survey of 1,000 pastors on their churches’ most pressing needs.

3 Ways to Remain Faithful When Life Seems to be Going Nowhere
Do you ever feel like your life–career, relationships–is going nowhere, despite putting your best foot forward and giving your all in everything? Here are 3 ways to help you persevere in your faith journey.

How to Stop Finding Your "Calling" and Start Living Your Life
There’s something incredibly alluring about the idea of finding our “calling”, something so admirable about stepping into that “one big moment” we grew up dreaming about. Our relentless pursuit of calling is also fuelled by the media we consume, telling us to go after our dreams because we’re “made for more”.

Confessions of a “Good Christian Girl”—Countering Toxic Christianity
The world has conjured for us the image of the “perfect Christian”—that we are to have squeaky clean conduct, and always be doing good deeds. After all, didn’t our God ask us to be perfect as He is perfect (Matthew 5:48)?

Why Isn't God Doing Something Big Through Me?
We’re often told to dream big for God, or that “God wants to do something big through you!” Perhaps we picture ourselves vaulting over jungles to an unreached people group, or running a homeless ministry, or a crazy amount of colleagues becoming Christians because of our influence.
But I've come to the realisation that sometimes, my desire to do something big for God has been, at times, just a desire not to be small.

5 Myths About Faithfulness
We all struggle with faithfulness from time to time, but sometimes, we may be experiencing guilt about the wrong thing or feeling frustrated because our ideas of what faithfulness looks like aren’t playing out in our lives.
Here are five myths we may be holding onto about what it really means to be faithful.

I Wasn't Promoted for 8 Years—and It Stung
He felt that if someone has been in the job long enough, a promotion should naturally come along. But sadly, this is my eighth year in my current role, and I have yet to be promoted.
It was not how I had hoped things would be.

Putting the Joy Back into Surrendering
Life is hard. We face broken relationships, disappointment, discouragement, ostracism, illnesses, and day-to-day things like the frustration of squeezing with the morning crowd, assignments and chores that won’t complete themselves, nights when we straddle between exhaustion and insomnia—the list is endless.