Practical guidance for following Christ daily—prayer, Bible reading, spiritual disciplines, and growing in godliness.
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11121. Praying over meals is such a familiar habit in many Christian households that we rarely stop to ask why we do it, or whether it still means anything after the thousandth repetition of the same few words. Some of us grew up around a table where grace was said automatically, almost without anyone…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11178. Overcoming jealousy first requires understanding that not all jealousy is the same thing, and Scripture is more nuanced on this than we sometimes assume. Jealousy over a relationship, a marriage, a friendship, a position we fear losing to someone else, is different from envy over a possession or achievement, though the two overlap…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11177. Overcoming envy is a battle most Christians fight quietly, largely because envy is embarrassing to admit. Nobody wants to say out loud that a friend’s new job, a sibling’s easier marriage, or a fellow believer’s answered prayer made them feel worse rather than glad. Yet Scripture names envy plainly and repeatedly as a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11176. Overcoming resentment is a task most of us underestimate, right up until we notice how much mental energy a single unresolved grievance can quietly consume. Resentment is bitterness’s close cousin: a low, simmering sense of grievance against someone, often someone close to us, for a wrong that was never properly addressed, apologised for,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11175. Overcoming bitterness is one of the slower, less glamorous battles of the Christian life, and I say that as someone who has fought it personally, not only counselled others through it from a safe distance. Bitterness rarely arrives all at once. It creeps in quietly after a wound, an injustice, a betrayal, or…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11174. What, then, is true reconciliation, and is it always genuinely possible to achieve? Biblical reconciliation is, at its heart, the restoration of a broken relationship, and it sits at the very centre of the gospel message itself, since our reconciliation with God through Christ is the pattern Scripture holds up for how estranged…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11173. Forgiving the unrepentant is genuinely one of the hardest instructions in the whole Christian life to apply well, precisely because so much popular teaching on forgiveness quietly assumes the other person has already said sorry first. What do you do when they never do, when the person who hurt you shows no remorse…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11172. How do I apologise well? A biblical apology is considerably more specific than the vague, deflecting non-apologies that pass for repentance in so much of ordinary life, phrases like ‘I’m sorry you feel that way,’ which manage to sound apologetic while accepting no actual responsibility. I want to walk through what a genuinely…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11171. How, then, do I respond when I have genuinely and clearly wronged someone else? Making amends is one of the most concrete, practical demands the whole Christian life places on us, and it is also one of the areas where I see believers struggle most, often substituting vague guilt or private prayer alone…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11170. Spiritual pride is one of the most dangerous sins precisely because it disguises itself as its opposite. Someone can be genuinely growing in Bible knowledge, in active ministry involvement, and in outward moral conduct, and still be quietly consumed by this pattern the whole time, mistaking real growth in knowledge for genuine growth…