Hope can be difficult to hang on to sometimes. We want to believe things will get better, but disappointments continue to come. We think we are just in a hard season, but the hard season never seems to end. We know that Christians are supposed to have hope, so we beat ourselves up for feeling despair. We think that feeling hopeless must mean we are not very good Christians. But the people of God have struggled to hang onto hope throughout the ages. Such is life in a broken [...]

Let’s be honest. We all struggle with prayer. Our personal prayer lives are not what we wish they were. We know we should pray more but we are tired and overwhelmed and have so much to do. If your prayer life is anything like mine, it feels like “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” We all struggle with our individual prayer lives. None of us visit our “prayer closets” (Matt. 6:6) as often as we would like. But what if there’s something missing in our lives [...]