The secret to enjoying God's Word is looking at it as a means of holy leisure. Holy leisure is the modern-day answer to our soul's thirst to slow down and savor God and the Bible. Subscribe to receive weekly devotionals about life, leisure, and the pursuit of holiness.
The Most Important Doctrine You've Never Heard Of 📖
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Cara Ray | Writer
The secret to enjoying God's Word is looking at it as a means of holy leisure. Holy leisure is the modern-day answer to our soul's thirst to slow down and savor God and the Bible. Subscribe to receive weekly devotionals about life, leisure, and the pursuit of holiness.
Have you been late in loving beauty? Reader, That might seem like an odd question, especially since our culture is obsessed with beauty. Beauty stops us, and sells us. But there's a world of difference between noticing beauty and seeing God in beauty. When Augustine connected his love of beauty to God, he proclaimed of his discovery, "Late have I loved you, Beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you." He had admired beauty his whole life, but he was late in truly seeing it. Once he...
When Life Gets Busy, Keep Abiding Reader, Do you ever say to yourself, "I'll read my Bible, after I ____ (fill in the blank)." You have every intention of sitting down and spending some time with the Lord, but first you have to check your email, fold some laundry, and pack the kids' lunches. Before you know it, those good intentions are lost to an endless list of to-dos and interruptions. I've often wondered if Martha had similar intentions. Maybe she had planned to sit at Jesus' feet, but...
When the gift of a new car is out of order Reader, If you've ever given a gift that didn't land quite right, or received one that felt 'off' in some way, perhaps something in the relationship was disordered. Maybe the gift was tainted with impure motives. It wasn't just a gift to be enjoyed, but something the gift-giver used toward their own desired end. That was the case for my friend Tiffany, who once received what I thought was the pinnacle of a cool-girl car, a VW Cabriolet Rabbit....