The Holiest Thing You Can Do Today Might Be to Stop
Sabbath, trust, and the man who thinks the world needs him awake Try an experiment this Saturday. Sit down for […]
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
The Old Name Still Calls. You Don’t Have to Answer.
Stage Two · Identity — Replacing the Belief Walk through any crowded place and shout a man’s childhood nickname —
Christian Mind & Culture
A Thousand Connections. Not One Who Knows You.
Christian Mind & Culture — The world sold you connection without presence, and presence was the whole point It is
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
It Feels Random. It Isn’t. Map the Pattern.
Stage Two · Identity — The fall that blindsided you on Thursday was already moving on Tuesday “It came out
Doctrine
God Didn’t Just Acquit You. He Adopted You.
Doctrine with its boots on: the courtroom sets you free, but only the Father takes you home. Adoption may be
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
You Don’t Need a Speech. You Need Three Sentences.
Stage One of the Transformation Path: Saying It Out Loud — and why the speech you keep rehearsing is the
Revelation Exposition
Revelation 6 & 7: The Seals, the Sealed, and the Saved
Bible Exposition — a five-teacher synthesis of Revelation 6 and 7: false peace, war, famine, death, the martyrs, cosmic upheaval, and the two groups sealed and saved.
Bible Exposition
The Tree and the Chaff: Psalm 1, Verse by Verse
Psalm 1 is the door to the whole Psalter: two men, two ways, two endings. A verse-by-verse walk to the one Blessed Man who keeps it for us.
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
Say It Again — This Time Without the Word “Just”
You can already see it clearly. What you won’t do is say it without the softeners. Adam’s first confession was true in every word — and concealed everything.
Gospel Foundations
Somebody Had to Die. The Only Question Was Who.
The cross was not a tragedy God failed to prevent. It was the only door He left open. We have
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
You Can’t Fix Him. Sit Down Anyway.
Stage Five was never the end of the road. It was the place the road turns around. You spent years
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation
When God Speaks, It Isn’t a Request: Be Holy as He Is Holy
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation — When God speaks, it isn’t a request. A study of holiness in Malachi, inspired by Lisa Starling.
Apologetics
Either the Tomb Was Empty, or Your Faith Is a Waste of Time
Christianity stakes everything on one event and dares you to investigate it. The minimal-facts case for the resurrection — and why every alternative explanation collapses.
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
You Will Drift. The Only Question Is How Fast You Catch It.
Recovery’s most dangerous day is not when you fail — it’s when you decide you’re past failing. Stage Five on drift: build the early-warning system before you need it.
Bible Exposition
When the Darkness Won’t Lift: He Will Not Leave You
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation — why John 14 has carried more troubled hearts to morning than almost any chapter in the Bible.
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation
The Father Who Sees in Secret
If every public part of your faith disappeared tomorrow, how much would be left? Jesus in Matthew 6 keeps returning to one staggering phrase — your Father who sees in secret. The hidden life is not just where you avoid hypocrisy; it is where you are actually formed.
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
Three Times a Day, Come Back
Stage Five · Legacy — Week Ten of the Transformation Path. Freedom is not a finish line; it is a way of living that has to be kept. Three small, stubborn anchors — morning, midday, and evening — hold a freed life steady when willpower can’t.
Christian Mind & Culture
“Live Your Truth” Is the Cruelest Thing the Culture Ever Told You
The culture’s one surviving commandment — be true to yourself, live your truth — sounds like freedom and kindness. Traced to the bottom, it hands a drowning soul the very weight pulling it under. A look at expressive individualism and the truth that actually frees.
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation, Transformation Path
You Can’t Apologize Your Way Back Into Trust
Stage Four · Restoration — Week Nine of the Transformation Path. The apology was never the finish line; it was the starting gun. Trust is rebuilt slowly, by small and consistent action, never demanded — and always on grace already given.
Apologetics
Only a Theory? Why Scripture Still Stands
Apologetics — A friend handed me a book by a Christian evolutionist and asked what I thought. Here is what I found inside — and why I cannot follow him where he wants to go.