Resources
Words for the journey.
Books, reflections, devotionals, and other resources created to help you behold God more clearly, rest in Him more deeply, and live with eternity in view.
Some are meant to be read slowly. Some are meant to be carried into ordinary days. All are offered with one hope: That what you behold will shape what you treasure — and what you treasure will shape how you live.
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Living Backward
The Gift of Hindsight in Building a Truly Significant Life
An invitation to live from the end backward — letting eternity redefine what matters, what lasts, and what makes a life truly significant.
Most of us move through life looking forward.
We make plans. We pursue what seems important. We fill our days with responsibilities, relationships, opportunities, ambitions, and ordinary concerns — often without stopping to ask what those things will look like from the other side of our lives.
But what if we could borrow the wisdom of hindsight before we reached the end?
What if eternity could teach us now what we might otherwise discover only later?
Living Backward invites us to turn around the usual way of seeing life — to look from the end toward the present and allow what lasts forever to reshape what receives our attention today.
It is an invitation to reconsider significance itself.
Not significance measured by visibility.
Not by achievement.
Not by accumulation, recognition, or applause.
But significance measured in the light of eternity.
Because a significant life is not necessarily a visible one.
It is a life shaped by eternity and spent on what truly lasts.
Forthcoming
Trustworthy
Knowing the God upon whom the heart can rest.
How God Closes the Gap Between What We Believe and How We Live
We may sincerely believe that God is trustworthy and still find our hearts bracing against uncertainty, reaching for control, or struggling to rest when life does not make sense.
Trustworthy enters that very gap — the distance between what we know about God and what our hearts instinctively do under pressure. Through a deep exploration of the holy, sovereign, wise, good, and faithful God revealed in Scripture, it traces how knowing His character begins to reshape the inner reflexes of fear, self-protection, and self-reliant striving.
This is not a call to manufacture stronger feelings of faith. It is an invitation to behold God until the truth of who He is becomes increasingly weighty in the heart — through Scripture, remembrance, suffering, obedience, communion with Him, and the quiet work of the Spirit.
The circumstances may not become easier. The questions may not all be answered. But something within us can change:
The heart can learn where its weight can rest.
Companion resource
The ABCs of Trusting God
An A-to-Z companion to Trustworthy—a gentle invitation to behold God’s unchanging character, rest more deeply in His faithfulness, and let the truth of who He is shape the way you live, one ordinary day at a time.
Read The ABCs of Trusting God →Simple practices
The ABCs Collection
Small, repeatable practices for a Godward heart. Nothing complicated — just steady ways of turning attention and affection toward the God who is worthy of both.
The ABCs of Treasuring God
An A to Z series of heart postures: verbs that turn affection Godward, one letter at a time.
Read The ABCs of Treasuring God →The ABCs of Adoring God
A companion practice of adoration — giving God sustained, worshipful attention one truth at a time.
Read The ABCs of Adoring God →The ABCs of Trusting God
An A to Z journey of learning to rest in God’s unchanging character — cultivating a heart that trusts Him not merely in what it believes, but in how it lives, one day at a time.
Read The ABCs of Trusting God →
The ABCs practices are shared with the Stay Connected community as they are released. Join the journey to receive them.
Redemptive Names of God
Quiet companions
Devotionals & Reflections
Five Days of Beholding
A five-day invitation to step away long enough to rest in being held. Delivered by email, one quiet reflection at a time.
Begin the Five Days →Truth to carry into ordinary days.
Sometimes the heart needs a book.
Sometimes it needs a few quiet pages and enough space to listen.
This shelf will hold devotional reflections, Scripture-centered encouragement, and downloadable resources designed to help truth travel from the page into the rhythms of everyday life.
Not more noise.
Not spiritual information merely to collect.
But invitations to linger, behold, remember, and respond.
More resources are being prepared for this shelf.
Reflections for the Journey
Occasional written reflections for beholding God in ordinary days — shared first with the Stay Connected community.
Stay Connected →
Open-handed living
Seismic Generosity Resources
Mercy that moves the heart outward.
Biblical generosity begins long before the hand opens. It begins as we behold the mercy of God.
These resources invite that mercy deeper into the life of the disciple—reshaping what we treasure, how we steward what God has entrusted to us, and how freely we respond when love places a need within reach.
Begin with the Overflowing Fire Declaration. Discover your Giving Style. Practice the Three Rs. Linger with A Benediction for the Giver. Or step behind the flame and read the story that helped give Seismic Generosity its language.
Not more pressure to give.
Formation for a heart becoming increasingly free to live open-handed.
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More Is Being Written
This library is still growing.
Over time, these shelves will hold additional books, devotionals, reflections, teaching resources, and practical invitations for living with God and eternity increasingly in view.
But the purpose will remain the same:
Behold Him.
Be held by Him.
Live wholly for Him.
And carry what you have seen into the life you have been given.
Stay awhile
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If these words have met you somewhere along the journey, you are invited to stay connected.
Receive new reflections, resources, and occasional news from Behold & Be Held as they are released.
No constant noise.
Just thoughtful invitations to return to what matters most.
Behold Him.Be held by Him.Live wholly for Him.