grace
-
One of the biggest errors in Christianity, and many denominations, is that we somehow earn our way into heaven. Jesus taught the exact opposite! If salvation could be earned, then none of us would ever make it. We’ve all sinned. We’ve all fallen short of God’s perfect standard. That’s why Jesus came, He lived the… Read more
-
“God is still working on me” is not a free pass to keep doing what you already know is wrong.There should be a clear break from old ways,towards a direction that is unmistakable.If nothing is changing, if there is no resistance against sin, no conviction, no desire to turn, then something is off, no matter… Read more
-
As children of God, we are called to live with an expectancy that Jesus could return at any moment. That hope should not produce fear, but sobriety, humility, and a heart that stays ready before God. Every day should be a day of repentance, because Scripture calls us to repent and turn to God so… Read more
-
the weight settles softly, inside the chest, inside the breathsomething unnamed aches, without edges, without reasonit lingers quietly, asking nothing, taking space days blur together, carried by habit, carried by strainwe move through hours, half present, half fadingstill something reaches, even in the dullness, even in the hurt a stranger appears, fragile and distant, yet… Read more
-
There are no words that feel big enough for what you were to me, but I carry them anyway because it’s all I have to reach for you.When I think of you, I don’t just remember faces, I remember a feeling. A world that was softer, lighter, and full in a way that’s hard to… Read more
-
That hill became a door. that cross became hope, so do not tell me God cannot rewrite geography, He takes vallevs of trouble and builds doors in them, He takes places of defeat and plants vineyards in their soil, He takes what broke you and speaks in it until you sing again not somewhere else,… Read more
-
When Paul came to Thessalonica and Berea, he didn’t rely on clever speech or personal opinion. He sat down with folks and walked them through the Scriptures, showing plainly that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again. As Acts tells us, he was “opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen… Read more
Seeing through the eyes of others 