Author: John W. Crowder
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Dead Corn and Divine Plans
Drive through Central Texas in July and you will see something that puzzles a lot of people who don’t live around here. The fields are full of corn that looks dead. The stalks are brown and dried out. The ears are drooping. Everything about it looks like something went wrong. I have heard people ask…
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Yesterday’s Trophy Won’t Win Today’s Game
Corey Seager was the World Series MVP in 2023. Today he has gone 27 straight at-bats without a hit. Trophies don’t get you hits — and past experiences with God, as real and sacred as they are, don’t substitute for fresh dependence on Him today.
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Under a Broom Tree
Elijah was the greatest prophet in Israel’s history — and one day he sat under a broom tree and asked God to let him die. If you have ever known that kind of exhaustion, you are in good company. The God who met Elijah in the wilderness has not stopped paying attention.
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Restore the Joy
That joy is not manufactured by positive thinking or spiritual effort. It flows from the reality that we are known by God, loved by God, covered by God.
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Drawing Near: What Our Church Is Doing for the Next 40 Days
Draw Near runs from April 26 through June 7, and it touches nearly every part of our church life.
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Have You Tried Rebooting It?
We exhaust every option before we reboot the computer. Turns out, we do the same thing with prayer — and it costs us more than we realize.
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Living on Purpose
Will we allow the day to happen to us, or will we step into it with clarity and purpose?
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The Legacy of a Small Bible
My father gave this small Bible to my Uncle Dale back in the 1950s. Even after my dad died, Uncle Dale kept up with it and carried it in his pocket at my wedding. Almost 30 years later he gave it to me with a heartfelt inscription after I had been through a very difficult…
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