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The Story of Desire – 10: Desire as Habit

The Decree and the Drift: When the Promise Meets the Power of Habit Throughout this series I emphasize one truth […]

The Wilderness as Training Ground: How Desire Learns Its Way In this article we learn how desire learns its way.

If desire follows attention, then memory is the path attention most often travels. In the previous article, we explored attention

What We Give Ourselves To Is Who We’re Becoming Throughout this series, we trace Scripture’s story of desire as something

Before we move into part two of our series, I need to set the record on sheep straight. Because, I

Act IV – God’s Desire Walks Onto the Stage The lights dim. The prophets’ voices fade into memory. The stage

A Note on Approach In this article and the next, I engage the Prophets as an ancient prophetic play (don’t

An Alternative Way to Read the Prophets Reading the Prophets in the Bible can be difficult. One of the challenges

And Attracts Them When They’re Not Looking Genesis 12:1–9; Exodus 2:23–25; Deuteronomy 7:7–8 A Counter-Cultural Beginning In this series, I

When Want Outgrows Wisdom (Genesis 6-11) Previously we explored how rightly directed desire distorts and becomes a personal problem. But