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What We Deserve “Hell is full of people who think they deserve heaven. Heaven is full of people who know they deserve h...
05/30/2026

What We Deserve

“Hell is full of people who think they deserve heaven.

Heaven is full of people who know they deserve hell.”

—Trevin Wax

To read the rest of this week's "In It Minute", click here: https://www.servantheart.com/what-we-deserve/

This Memorial Day, we reflect on sacrifice — and the many forms it takes. From the battlefield to the mission field, sac...
05/25/2026

This Memorial Day, we reflect on sacrifice — and the many forms it takes. From the battlefield to the mission field, sacrifice changes the world. And today we especially honor those who gave everything for our freedom.

Real Virtue “When God is removed from the moral equation, virtue becomes shallow because it has no transcendent purpose....
05/23/2026

Real Virtue

“When God is removed from the moral equation, virtue becomes shallow because it has no transcendent purpose. There’s no ultimate ‘why.’ Justice becomes selective. Compassion becomes conditional. Truth becomes negotiable. And ironically, the loudest moral voices often end up being the most brittle—quick to shame, slow to forgive, and terrified of dissent.

The church has made its own mistakes here, no question. But the answer isn’t to abandon biblical morality—it’s to return to it with humility and courage. Our credibility won’t be restored by sounding more like the culture, but by living differently from it.

Real virtue isn’t announced. It’s embodied. And without God at the center, all the moral noise in the world is just that—noise. Empty. Echoing.”

—Phil Cooke

To read the rest of this week's "In It Minute", click here: https://www.servantheart.com/real-virtue/

Looking Back “After we die we’ll forever be learning about and experiencing God’s grace toward us. We’ll likely look ba...
05/16/2026

Looking Back

“After we die we’ll forever be learning about and experiencing God’s grace toward us. We’ll likely look back at our lives in this fallen world and see the riches of God’s grace and kindness to us, though our hardships may have seemed anything but grace-filled and kind.

This will be the power of retrospect—seeing afterward that all God’s promises were true all along. May God give us his grace not to wait until we die to discover this, but to believe his Word here and now.”

—Randy Alcorn in “Beautiful and Scandalous”

To read the rest of this week's "In It Minute", click here: https://www.servantheart.com/looking-back/

Pure Gift “Christianity does not echo the injunction to get out there and take what’s ours (and not let anyone get in ou...
05/09/2026

Pure Gift

“Christianity does not echo the injunction to get out there and take what’s ours (and not let anyone get in our way). Instead, it has the audacity to claim the opposite: any good thing that you’re going to get in life is going to be something you receive. Existence itself is something given to us rather than earned by us. Furthermore, the incarnate Son of God represents pure gift, a light shining on those who dwell in darkness, the revelation of God’s love in all its vulnerability and impossibility. Like all great gifts, he arrives in that stable unbidden and of God’s own initiative—a sweet and glorious surprise to a world that lay ‘in sin and error pining.’ Those familiar with the rest of the Bible know that Jesus was anything but a reward for human obedience and faithfulness.”

—David Zahl in “The Big Relief”

To read the rest of this week's "In It Minute", click here: https://www.servantheart.com/pure-gift/

Your Fruit “The great problem religious people have is they think God is way out there somewhere and they have to try as...
05/02/2026

Your Fruit

“The great problem religious people have is they think God is way out there somewhere and they have to try as hard as they can to produce fruit—to say and do the right thing—to please this impossible-to-please God.

But you will never produce the right fruit by trying to produce the right fruit.

…

To read the rest of this week's "In It Minute", click here: https://www.servantheart.com/your-fruit/

Held by Love Himself “Though you are but dust, in Him is life. Though you are dying to self, His life and His love come ...
04/25/2026

Held by Love Himself

“Though you are but dust,
in Him is life.
Though you are dying to self,
His life and His love
come to dwell right within you.
And though you will know wilderness,
you will be held with love,
by Love Himself.”

—Ann Voskamp

To read the rest of this week's "In It Minute", click here: https://www.servantheart.com/held-by-love-himself/

How We Love “God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.” —Francis...
04/18/2026

How We Love

“God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.”

—Francis Chan

To read the rest of this week's "In It Minute", click here: https://www.servantheart.com/how-we-love/

Slowly “Live slowly enough to think deeply about God.”—J.I. Packer To read the rest of this week's "In It Minute", click...
04/11/2026

Slowly

“Live slowly enough to think deeply about God.”

—J.I. Packer

To read the rest of this week's "In It Minute", click here: https://www.servantheart.com/slowly/

“When the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: ‘I admit that...
04/05/2026

“When the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: ‘I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where he is there I shall be also!’” —Martin Luther

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