Devotional 5 Being Transformed by Beholding The Object of Your Attention Determines the Direction of Your Change The Awakening There is a principle embedded in the human soul that neuroscience has confirmed but Scripture announced long before: you become what you behold. Extended, attentive contemplation of anything shapes the mind, the desires, and eventually the…

Devotional 4 The Heart That Must Be Created You Cannot Renew What Only God Can Replace The Awakening The most common misunderstanding of the Christian life is that it is a self-improvement project with divine assistance. God begins it; we maintain it. God forgives the past; we manage the future. It sounds reasonable. It is…

Devotional 3 The Bankruptcy That Qualifies You Why Poverty of Spirit Is the Gateway, Not the Problem The Awakening Almost everything we have been taught about success runs directly counter to the first Beatitude. We are formed by a world that rewards competence, penalizes vulnerability, and treats need as weakness. We bring these instincts into…