Got 3.5 minutes? Sometimes my attempts to be more than I am become ugly and revealing . . . in a good way. What feels awful at first then turns to my good, and I discover life all over again. See if you don’t, too.

If you want to know why some messages bind you to labor and failure, while others release you to rest and success, watch this. In my view, this is one of the best little messages I’ve done concerning how to live by grace, and how to find the Christian life promised to us: “My yoke is easy and my burden light.”

Got 3 minutes? Here’s the question: What is the relationship between God-given direction and the role that rejection and torture play in it?

Do you ever feel like you’re full of trash? Does it seem like good feelings and bad feelings collide inside of you, making an awful mess? Take 6 minutes to see what God likes to do in you when things get messy.

Do you wonder if God has a sort of backwards way of doing things for you? Have you ever thought, “God is a little bit sneaky with me, but it’s a good thing”? Take 3 minutes and see how true it is.

Sometimes our hope to do great things for God is not met in reality—and that hurts. Take 8 minutes for the encouragement of how God looks at reality. He thinks differently than we do, and that’s terrific.

Do you go through life trying to avoid problems and pitfalls that, nevertheless, happen anyway? If stuff happens to you that makes you wonder, “Why me?”, then give 8 minutes to this video and see if God doesn’t give you something good, something worthwhile, something that makes sense of it all as a result.

There’s a reason why many people avoid talking about God: we’ve tangled them up, leading them to believe they have to have lots of knowledge, education and ability in order to qualify. That’s rubbish. Plus, Christian commentary, while often scholarly, just as often turns angry, harsh and ugly, turning us off to the whole thing. This video explains why it’s happening, as well as the ease of what to do about it.

If you’re fed up with corruption—your own struggle and everyone else’s—you’re supposed to be because God wants to do something with you in it. Take 5 minutes to find out what that is.

Got 3 minutes? Do you ever feel like you don’t know what you’re doing or where you’re going, but you keep on going anyway? This short message will help you.