The Wholehearted Blog

If your quiet time is boring, figure out why. Light a candle, make a really good cup of coffee, go on a quiet-time hike, grab a new journal, listen through...

It’s been over eighteen years since that first attempt at a quiet time. I sit at a sunny dining table, a globe away from my Asian childhood home. An hour...

So, is there any place for my emotions in my relationship with Jesus? I’ve learned three things about emotions and where they rightly fit in my relationship with Jesus. 

We too are hungry. We too have growling bellies demanding to be filled. So we do. We fill them with whatever we can think of to gain momentary relief and...

When we see how beautifully, deeply, and wisely Christ loves us, following him shifts from a crushing ideal that we can never live out, to a natural overflow of our...

Sister — we don’t have to choose between sitting in the discomfort of our grief AND entrusting ourselves to God’s plan in our grief. In these moments, your quiet time probably...

We see this practice begin to develop even in Jesus’ boyhood. After days of separation from his family, he tells his frantic, worried mother, “Did you not know I must be...

When we are in busy and challenging seasons it’s even more vital that we fight for time in His word and prayer because we need His strength and grace, and...

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 (NIV)When Jesus called my heart to follow him, I began to understand how much...