“Selah.” That word shows up 71 times in the book of Psalms, but we don’t know for sure what it means. It appears to be some sort of musical...
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Holy Day Reader
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Less Time Than You Think
Every year, I think I have more time. Pentecost ends, and the Feast of Trumpets seems an impossibly long way away. The days tick on, slowly at...
In Whatever State I Am
I had my first fast when I was six years old. I remember it because of how excited I was leading up to it. I wanted to do this. I was going to do a...
Reverse Engineering Your Destiny
The seventh trumpet. It's the moment everything changes. It's the reason "the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now"...
The Gap
So often, Pentecost feels to me like the last ellipsis before we trail off into deafening silence. We have this meaningful, tangible build-up to...
Resisting to Bloodshed
Here's the bad news: Satan is out to get you. To destroy you. He wants very much to rip away your salvation, to crush your spiritual potential, and...
It’s Time to Fight
It was one of the last sentences Jesus spoke to His disciples before His crucifixion. A warning—and a promise: "These things I have spoken to you,...
Onward
And just like that, it's over. Again. Seven days of rejoicing before God—a thousand years of peace and prosperity under the loving reign of Jesus...
Look Ahead
There are so many ways to lose sight of what matters. It can be the stack of bills that keeps piling up, even though you're not sure how you're...
Remember Your Creator
Six thousand years of human history. Six thousand years of empires rising to the height of power, of discoveries allowing us to harness the laws of...
The King Is Coming
It's been a long time since Christ told the Church, "Surely I am coming quickly" (Revelation 22:20). Almost two millennia, actually. And for those...
Do the Work
From a calendar perspective, Pentecost is an odd duck. It stands a good distance away from the hustle and bustle of the initial spring Holy day...
Ruined
The other day, a friend and I were talking about marking our Bibles. We're both terrible perfectionists, so we were lamenting how easy it is to feel...
Keep Going
You didn't get it all, did you? Even now, as the Feast ends and we're allowed to bring things like bread and baking soda and self-rising flour back...
Begin
When Israel first kept the Passover, it was with the backdrop of a broken, shattered Egypt. God had brought the mighty nation to its knees for the...
Just Passing Through
The Feast of Tabernacles is almost here. Are you excited? Of course you are. That was a silly question. I don't know that I've ever met someone not...
The Devil Didn’t Make You Do It
Here's a fun thought experiment: Where do you think the human race would be today if Satan hadn't been in the garden with Adam and Eve? The third...
As He Is
The hardest thing about being a Christian, in my experience, is being a Christian—that is, a physical being from a physical world trying to follow a...