I’ve been trying to write this devotional for several weeks now. I have written and re-written many different drafts. Then I sat and reflected on these verses:

I began that Monday morning furiously writing down our family’s crazy schedules to get as organized as possible. I texted the five friends I had been meaning to get back to for months. I said a prayer for the many needs that had come up over the w...

I was assembling several heavy-duty steel shelving units. Over the years, I’d put together numerous pieces of Ikea furniture, a breeze compared to the task before me. The directions were complicated, and the parts didn’t want to fit together smoot...

One of the simplest meanings of grace I’ve heard over the years is this: the act of receiving what you don’t deserve. And in the case of salvation, it is a gift from God we simply do not deserve.