You can’t “effort” your way into grace, but God can grace you for effective effort. Why are we “programmed” to think we have to work hard and do our very best in order to “deserve” God’s rest? It’s a question I think about a lot since the Bible tells us something very different about entering […]

We’ve been sold a definition of rest by this world that just isn’t accurate. The kind of rest the world pushes is insufficient. Have you realized this yet? The more you religiously engage with the self-care rituals, the more you aggressively disappear for “me time,” the more you pursue products that promise to curb your […]

Most Christians aren’t experiencing real rest, and it shows. With the levels of anxiety, overwhelm and burnout we experience, is it really a surprise that most Christians aren’t really “doing rest right?” I know it just feels like one more thing to “worry” about, but when we get this rest thing “right,” it’s going to […]