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Rather than asking, “What is God’s will for my life?” we ought to ask, “Is my life in line with God’s will?”

No matter how sinful you are, how many times you’ve made the same mistake, or even how many people you’ve hurt, the gift of salvation is for everyone who is willing to accept it. Receive it and cling to it like your life depends on it, because it does.

How much noise do you find in your life? As you're reading this, maybe you can hear a fan, a neighbor working on his deck, or the occasional dog bark or truck drive by. But even if it was completely silent in your house, would you find things to fill the quiet space (even the quiet space in your mind)? Maybe you'd scroll through social media feeds, blast music, talk to your pets. Anything to avoid the silence. But why? What am we afraid to hear in that silence?

It’s hard to wrap our minds around the grace of God. We don’t live in a world where grace is really practiced or even valued. As a result we don’t often expect to receive grace—not from the people around us and certainly not from a holy and perfect God.

Do you find yourself monopolizing conversations? Cutting others off mid-sentence? Anxiously waiting for someone to hurry up and finish their story so you can share your own? No one wants to be that guy we saw in the video. But truth be told, sometimes we are. We can get so wrapped up in our own drama, we forget that life is really supposed to be about others.

A lot of things are good in life, or at least good enough. But we live in a culture that for the most part expects better than good—we want great. Why have good when you can have great, right? Who wants a good doctor when you could have a great doctor? Why have a good car when you can have a great car? Yet when it comes to our spiritual lives and our relationship with God, we seem to compromise. Accepting good, when great is at our fingertips.

We’ve all had experiences that have weighed us down. Unkind words spoke to us, betrayal of trust, disappointment in our accomplishments, disillusionment with God, and on and on the list goes. In this world, we will have trouble and suffering, Jesus assured us (John 16:33). No one escapes the hurtful effects of sin, and as a result we all have painful memories we’d rather forget. But what happens when we don’t?

Mention fasting and you get some varied responses. For some, fasting is a precious, sacred act of worship—something they actually look forward to because it brings them that much closer to God. For others, it’s an intimidating and confusing topic. What is fasting? Why would God want us to starve ourselves? It can seem like an odd, ritualistic tradition that’s hard to place in today’s casual approach to a relationship with God. Whether or not we are comfortable talking about fasting, it’s an important part of our spirituality.