Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11166. Cultivate kindness sounds simple enough until you actually try to practise it consistently, especially towards people who have not earned it, on days when you are tired, overlooked, or provoked, and Scripture treats this fruit of the Spirit as something considerably deeper than pleasant manners or a naturally sunny disposition. The command to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11165. Cultivate patience is easy to say and remarkably hard to do, especially in a culture engineered for instant answers, instant delivery and instant gratification, and if you have ever earnestly prayed for patience only to find yourself immediately, almost comically, handed a queue, a difficult relative, or a delayed answer to prayer, you…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11164. Love my neighbour is the command Jesus called the second greatest in all the law, right alongside loving God with heart, soul, mind and strength, and if you have ever wondered what it practically looks like to obey this command beyond a vague warm feeling towards people in general, this question deserves a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11163. Walk by faith is Paul’s own phrase from 2 Corinthians 5:7, where he tells us plainly that “we walk by faith, not by sight”, and unpacking what that actually means in daily life matters enormously, because it is one of those verses quoted often and understood carelessly. It is not a call to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11162. Faith and feelings are often confused with one another, and untangling them properly matters a great deal, because many believers quietly measure the health of their walk with God by how spiritually they feel rather than by what they actually believe and how they actually act on it. I meet this confusion constantly…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11161. Christian doubt is something almost every believer meets sooner or later, whether it arrives as a quiet nagging question late at night or a sudden crisis triggered by suffering, unanswered prayer, or a hard intellectual objection you cannot immediately answer, and I want to talk to you honestly about it rather than offering…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 11160. Dark night of the soul is a phrase that originated with the sixteenth century Spanish mystic John of the Cross, and it has since entered common Christian vocabulary to describe something rather specific, a prolonged, often severe experience of God’s apparent absence, deeper and longer than ordinary spiritual dryness, sometimes accompanied by real…
Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 6166. The Hebrews 10 warning has probably cost more sleep among sincere believers than any other paragraph in the New Testament. “For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.” Read that at two in the morning after a bad week…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 11159. Spiritual dryness is that unsettling season when prayer feels like talking into an empty room, when Scripture that used to move you now reads flat on the page, and when you cannot quite locate the joy that used to come naturally with worship. If you are in it right now, I want to…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 11158. Every grieving friend situation trips up even well meaning Christians, because our instinct is to fix pain, and grief cannot be fixed, only carried alongside someone. Paul’s instruction is very simple, “weep with those who weep” (Romans 12:15), not solve, not explain, weep. That single word reframes the whole task away from problem…