Quiet Questions for the Soul

Season 4 of My Question for You: Wisdom for Your Walk continues with SUITED UP, our series taking a fresh look at the armor of God. This week, we’re picking up the shield of faith. At first, this may seem like the most obvious piece of armor. A shield protects you. Faith protects you. Got it. But Paul doesn’t simply say the shield blocks the arrows. He says it extinguishes them. So why are the arrows on fire in the first place? In this episode, we’re slowing down long enough to notice what...

Are You Ready to Move? Season 4 of My Question for You: Wisdom for Your Walk continues with SUITED UP, our series taking a fresh look at the armor of God—not simply what each piece represents, but what it actually looks like to wear it. This week, we’re moving to the shoes of the gospel of peace. And there’s something interesting about that picture: Paul is describing a soldier prepared for battle, yet he puts peace on his feet—and connects that peace with readiness. So what exactly is the g...

Season 4 of My Question for You: Wisdom for Your Walk continues with SUITED UP, our series taking a fresh look at the armor of God—not simply what each piece represents, but what it actually looks like to wear it. This week, we’re moving to the breastplate of righteousness. A breastplate protected something vital. So why does Paul connect that protection to righteousness? And what exactly are we putting on? It’s easy to think of righteousness as getting things right—living well, making good c...

Season 4 of My Question for You: Wisdom for Your Walk continues with SUITED UP, our series taking a fresh look at the armor of God—not simply what each piece represents, but what it actually looks like to wear it. This week, we’re starting with the first piece Paul names: the belt of truth. Why does truth come first? And why would Paul compare it to something a soldier secured before he moved? Because when life changes, we can quickly move from what happened to deciding what it means about God—a...

Season 4 of My Question for You: Wisdom for Your Walk continues with a brand-new series: SUITED UP. In our last series, Behind Enemy Lines, we learned to recognize the enemy and some of the ways he works. Now we’re shifting the focus to what God has given us to stand against him. And we’re starting with a familiar passage: the armor of God in Ephesians 6. You may know the armor by heart. You may even be able to name every piece without opening your Bible. But knowing the armor isn’t the same ...

After six weeks of talking about the enemy, there’s one thing Melissa doesn’t want you to do: walk away thinking about him all the time. In the final episode of Behind Enemy Lines, we turn to 2 Kings 6 and the story of Elisha’s servant, who wakes up to discover an enemy army surrounding the city. The threat is real—but it isn’t the whole story. So what happens when awareness of the enemy becomes preoccupation with him? And how do we stay spiritually aware without allowing the battle to become ...

What if the fact that you’re still in the battle doesn’t mean you’re losing? Sometimes we’re so focused on wanting the struggle to disappear that we miss what God has already strengthened in us. In Episode 5 of Behind Enemy Lines, we return to Ephesians 6 and take a closer look at one simple instruction Paul repeats: stand. We’ll talk about the difference between standing and striving, why resistance doesn’t always mean the struggle stops, and how spiritual growth can show up in the way someth...

Temptation doesn’t always look like something obviously wrong. Sometimes, it looks like relief, comfort, attention—or even something you genuinely need. In this episode of Behind Enemy Lines, we’re looking at what Scripture teaches us about how temptation works and why our most vulnerable moments can make the wrong thing look surprisingly reasonable. Through Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness and James’ teaching about our own desires, we’ll explore why recognizing what we’re hungry for may he...

What if the accusation against you contains some truth? You messed up. You knew better. Maybe you even said you’d never do it again. So when that failure comes back to mind, how do you know whether God is convicting you… or whether the enemy is using something true to lead you toward a verdict God never gave you? In Part 3 of Behind Enemy Lines, we’re looking at accusation—and why Scripture’s description of Satan as “the accuser” matters. Through Peter’s denial of Jesus and his restoration in...

What are you believing—and how do you know it’s true? In Part 2 of Behind Enemy Lines, we’re looking at one of the enemy’s oldest strategies: deception. From the Garden of Eden to Jesus in the wilderness, Scripture shows us that deception doesn’t always sound outrageous. Sometimes it sounds close enough to the truth that we stop questioning it. In this episode, Melissa explores how the serpent distorted what God said to Eve, how Satan later used Scripture itself when tempting Jesus, and why d...

You know who the enemy is… right? When we think about spiritual warfare, it’s easy to picture something dramatic. But what if the battles that affect us most don’t look dramatic at all? What if they look like distraction? Discouragement? Division? A thought you’ve entertained so many times that you stopped questioning whether it was true? In the Season 4 premiere of My Question for You, Melissa opens a brand-new series, Behind Enemy Lines, with a question every believer needs to consider: Wh...