For a year-in-review post, I’m taking a look at the most popular posts here for 2025. These weren’t all written in 2025, but they brought in the most traffic from search engines and other sources. To read the full articles, click on the link in each title!
#10: Hidden Depths in the Book of Jonah: A Review of Timothy Keller’s Rediscovering Jonah
This book review is by my husband, Dave, who loves reading and sharing book recommendations. When he preached through the book of Jonah, and Rediscovering Jonah was one of his top resources.
#9: Proverbs 18: Don’t Isolate & Don’t Be Silent
Proverbs 18 is one of those chapters that are extensively marked up in my Bible. This meditation on its warnings is for those of us who sometimes want to abandon society and live that hermit lifestyle.
#8: 5 Fantastic Resources on Biblical Hospitality
In 2025, I did a deep dive into the question of what the Bible says about hospitality. Alongside the biblical passages, I read several works that gave historical grounding and practical advise on how to live out these principles. Here are my top 5 recommendations.
#7: 3 Ways the Annual Proverbs Challenge Will Change You
How familiar are we with God’s wisdom to us in the book of Proverbs? Do we think of it as a book for children? Do we see it for its immensely practical wisdom for us today? The annual Proverbs challenge has been central to my 40s and central to the creation of this entire site.
#6: 17 Gospel Encouragements to Overcome Barriers to Biblical Hospitality
Hospitality is a beautiful calling, but sometimes the reality of our lives looks very different from the picture we have in our minds. We might feel like our circumstances create barriers to offering the kind of welcome we long to extend. This list contains several common concerns about hospitality, along with scriptural meditations that will help us in overcoming them.
#5: Cultivating virtue: A biblical pattern for real change
What if life’s most frustrating moments are actually like rows in a garden—beautiful little hills of soil where we can cultivate virtue? I had a lifechanging experience one day while waiting in line at a Shanghai bank. One incredibly frustrating afternoon, something clicked, and I realized that I was actually in the perfect place to cultivate something that had often eluded me. I walked out of that bank with a new mindset and a new favourite word in my vocabulary: cultivate.
#4: Nurturing others in the faith: Love in action
What does the word nurture mean to you? This meditation on the word shows us how it relates to God’s work in our lives as well as our own interactions with others.
#3: Reading that Glorifies God: 7 Missionary Biographies to Add to Your Library
Deborah Talbert, my mother-in-law, had extensive knowledge of and a notable collection of missionary biographies. When she made a list of her top recommendations, it became a top resource for many of us and continues to be valuable today.
#2: Amy Carmichael’s “IF”: A small and intensely valuable devotional work
This review of Amy Carmichael’s book If was written by my mother-in-law years ago. I am so thankful to have her work appear here and be saved for us to keep reading. Check out why If is a must read book.
#1: Our Amazing God: 3 Lessons from Jonah that Comfort
A college lit class began my lifelong love for the book of Jonah and inspired this article. Have you ever noticed the amazing symmetry of the book of Jonah? This surprising structural element reveals some beautiful things about God’s character. Read the meditation in the link above.
