J.C. Wright

We've all heard that God is in control. But do we live like it?Most of us carry an image of God that looks something like a retired general watching from a hilltop — powerful, sure, but distant. We sing about His sovereignty on Sunday and spend the...

You've been told to "just have faith." But has anyone told you what faith actually is?Most of us carry a version of faith that was handed to us secondhand — believe hard enough and God will come through, never doubt or you're failing, close your eyes...

Family is messy. God made it that way on purpose.Most of us carry a picture of the "ideal" Christian family — two parents, well-behaved kids, matching outfits on the church directory page. And most of us don't fit it. We come from broken homes,...

What chains are you still wearing?Not the ones you can see. Not the ones people would recognize. The quiet ones — the fear that wakes you at 3 a.m., the shame that whispers you'll always be this way, the habit you've quit a hundred times and picked...

You know grace saved you. But do you actually believe it?Most of us live somewhere between two ditches. On one side, grace has been softened into a permission slip — a cosmic shrug that says God doesn't really care what you do. On the other side,...