Steak for the Soul — Faith

Be Light. As the world grows darker, more will fight to find their way through that darkness, but the light of just one is enough to illuminate the path of many. For even a single light can pierce through the deepest of darkness, and the darkness cannot overcome it. Be Salt. As more fight to find their way through the darkness that is coming, the more will be in need of healing, encouragement and the inspiration to stay aflame. For just as salt heals and preserves, it also adds flavor. So let your very existence be one that heals, encourages...

No one wants to be crushed. To be beaten back and forth by the winds of life, just trying to make sense of the chaos that's in front of you. I was sixteen the first time I visited Israel. It did something to me, something inside of me that I'll never be able to explain. Just walking where Jesus once walked, seeing all the places I had read so much about... suddenly all those stories from Sunday School weren't just stories. They were real. But there was one moment that stuck with me... this ancient olive press. I never thought...

"I've done some really messed up things in my life... things  I can't undo. No matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to put the pieces back together. I'm just too so far gone. How could someone like me be forgiven? How could someone like me be washed of my sins when I feel so unworthy of God's love?" I think the first hurdle anyone has to jump is the "Faith" hurdle. Is God real? Is the Bible really God's Word? Is that Word really a map to knowing God's promises in our life? Does it become an ever constant...

In this very moment there is fear within you, fear draped over you. Uncertainty of what is to come. But to you who read this now, take heart. For the plan of what is to come is so brilliant it could only be given by God. And through what is to come God will sanctify His people. Return us from our darkness to Him. Now is not the time to fear, but a time to pray. To pray for this Nation, to pray for this people. This blessed and beautiful people of multitudes, nations and tongues. In this moment, take...