The (in)courage Podcast

Give your sadness a safe space. Today, my heart holds sadness for a friendship that doesn’t look the way it used to. For you, maybe there is a sadness for the same — or from a different kind of relat…

We all want peace. We crave an inner calm-meets-strength that doesn’t rattle with volatile circumstances or disappear with busyness.

What if this kind of unshakable peace actually is possible?

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Our heavy hearts are safe in God's hands. We're all growing in our relationship with God. I'm grateful that He is gracious, compassionate, and oh so patient with us. Even when we are faithless, He is…

Teachers are amazing, imperfect, profoundly important people — who need our prayers. Whether you send your kids to public school or private school, or you choose to educate them at home in an organiz…

We don’t have to have just the right words for God to listen. God is already listening. We don’t need the perfect location or perfect circumstances or perfect words in order to pray. God is all aroun…

Our circumstances don’t have to be extreme for us to need God’s peace.

We're celebrating the release of our newest Bible study, Create in Me a Heart of Peace! Hear an excerpt -- and don't miss the gi…

Please don't discount your joy. Do you pay attention to the joy and excitement in your life? These two elements in your faith can be the signposts of the Holy Spirit's leading.

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Find hope amid anxiety through the spiritual practice of breath prayer with Jennifer Tucker’s beautifully illustrated and practical guide. Breath as Prayer: Calm Your Anxiety, Focus Your Mind, and Re…

Every breath can be an invitation to pray. When you connect intentional slow breaths — which are scientifically shown to reduce anxiety — with the power of prayer, you have an incredible tool that ca…

The promise of hope is greater than the pain of my current circumstances. There is something I want more than a pain-free life. I want to arrive at the end of my story having become the woman God cre…

He calls Himself the God of all comfort and He proves that over and over again. So many of us, especially over the past three years, have been through surprisingly hard things. It doesn’t matter if o…

Rest isn’t a sign that you’re weak. There will always be more to do, and certainly there are seasons in which we’re to run hard. But rest isn’t a sign that you’re weak; it’s trusting that the tending…

Our lives are not meaningless, and God is still faithful. Everything in life is temporary, including our pain. God won’t always take away our pain, but He does promise to be our refuge and strength, …

Join Becky Keife for a conversation with  Voices of Lament contributor Grace P. Cho!

Inspired by Psalm 37, Voices of Lament: Reflections on Brokenness and Hope in a World Longing for Justice is a powe…

If you are feeling discarded, unwelcome, and forgotten today, may you find that you belong with Jesus. And for the rest of us, those standing securely in a safe community, may we be the ones who open…

It's never too late to choose joy. Jesus whispers I am with you. I still place my hand of blessing upon you. It's never too late to choose joy. God's faithfulness will follow you. Moment by moment. S…

Our remedy comes from The Great Physician. There’s just no hiding the overflow of our hearts and minds, even though we think we are doing a great job of managing or pushing away the pain.

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Without lament to give us breath again, we can drown in despair. Lamenting was our way of declaring, “We haven’t given up hope yet. This is how we hope. This is how we keep going. And we will keep go…

Anytime is the right time to draw near to God again. The beauty of drawing near to God is the promise that He will come near, bringing His peace, grace, and the clarity that you need to live confiden…

Join Becky Keife for a conversation with  Prayers from the Parking Lot author Mary Carver!