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…

Devotional 2 The Mind That Must Be Renewed Transformation Is Not Self-Improvement — It Is a Different Kind of Thinking The Awakening The world operates by a relentless process of formation. Before you opened your eyes this morning, the culture that surrounds you had already shaped what you consider normal, desirable, and possible. Advertising, social…