June 14th - "Not Everyone Will Understand"

Sometimes insecurity sounds surprisingly reasonable: "I'm just being realistic." Moses had plenty of reasons to believe God had chosen the wrong person but when Moses asked, “Who am I?” God didn't giv...

8 Loka 9min

Sometimes we change what we're going to do because of an opinion someone hasn't even expressed. Other people's voices matter but there's a difference between listening to people and living for their a...

7 Loka 10min

There's one guaranteed way to avoid failure: never try. But what might that cost us? Today on The Morning Briefing, Peter's famous attempt to walk on water gives us another way to think about failure....

6 Loka 10min

Two little words can carry us into futures that haven't happened, 'What if?'  Fear takes uncertainty and begins writing a story often one where everything goes wrong. Today on The Morning Briefing, Je...

5 Loka 9min

Fear is a normal part of life but it doesn't have to make our decisions for us. In Mark 4:35–41, the disciples find themselves caught in a very real storm while Jesus is in the boat with them. Their f...

4 Loka 23min

The disciples weren't imagining the storm. The wind was real. The waves were real. The boat was filling with water and they were afraid. But the storm wasn't the only thing that was true. Jesus was in...

4 Loka 8min

Fear may show up on its own but sometimes we help it grow. An unanswered message becomes rejection. One problem becomes ten imagined problems. One alarming headline becomes an hour of worst-case scena...

3 Loka 10min

Sometimes the thing we're reacting to isn't the thing we're really afraid of. An unanswered phone call, a difficult conversation, an unexpected problem—what's on the surface may be pointing toward som...

2 Loka 10min