Brothers, What are we to make of this? “We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.” Romans 5:3–5 Read it slowly. How can suffering lead to hope? When we stay near Jesus in our hardship and keep going, God grows perseverance. Perseverance forms character, the lived truth of who w

Brothers, Some people say they can feel the rain before it comes. The air shifts, the wind changes, creation gets quiet. Elijah lived in that kind of moment. After fire fell on Mount Carmel, with no cloud in sight, he said, “There is the sound of a heavy rain” (1 Kings 18:41). But when his servant looked, there was nothing. So Elijah climbed higher, bowed lower, and prayed. Not once, but again and again, until a cloud the size of a man’s hand appeared and the sky finally brok

Brothers, The last two weeks I was traveling with my family to the 24-7 Prayer conference in Stuttgart, taking time to read, pray, and reflect. There is much to be thankful for, and you are one of those gifts. During a breakout with my friend Alain Emerson, a pastor from Northern Ireland, this verse gripped me: 2 Timothy 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. “As one approved” i

Brothers, From here in France to far beyond, Gen Z (13–28) is streaming back to the Church, hungry for depth. At Refuge we’re seeing it...

Brothers, I’m praying you make room for the Lord’s presence this week. As we move toward a Sunday set apart for prayer and worship,...

Brothers, I’m praying your week is full of blessing as you make time to linger in the Lord’s presence. Jesus reminds us, “Apart from Me...

Brothers, Psalm 13 gives language to the ache we don’t always know how to name. How long, Lord? Will You forget me forever?  … But I have...

Brothers, Summer has arrived, and the Spirit is inviting us to slip away to the river of peace. Listen to the water in Psalm 1: Blessed...

Brothers, Ephesians 6 lifts the curtain on a deeper reality: We are not merely passing through life—we are stepping onto a battlefield....

Brothers, Paul keeps the picture wonderfully simple: “Be imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love, just as Christ loved us...

Brothers, Paul speaks plainly: “Put off your old self, which is being corrupted by deceitful desires; be made new in the attitude of your...

Brothers, Ephesians 2:19-22 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are...

So what are the “good works” the Father has already prepared for you? The answer lives where all treasures are found: in time spent with the Holy Spirit. Grace was never meant to sit on a shelf like a trophy; it is a living gift, meant to flow through us into the world.