Looking Up to No. 1
The first seat was never yours A word for anyone who learned that looking after yourself first is wisdom — and for the climber who made a god of their own name. They sold me a gospel with a mirror in it. That is not a small sentence. A lot of us were raised on…
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Not by Mood
A feeling is not a covenant. A word for the husband or wife waiting to feel like staying — and for anyone who learned that love is weather. I know this house when the lamps are low. That is where a marriage actually lives. Not in the photograph from the day you said the words.…
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The Court You Keep
God closed the case. The second judge is often you A word for the recent convert who can finally see who they were — and cannot sit still under the pardon. The first clean morning after you come to Christ is not always peace. Sometimes it is sight. You wake up and the old life…
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This is What’s Left
Men measure years on the work that leaves their hands A word for the man who has looked at an old object and felt the years leave with it — and for anyone who still has wire on the spool and does not know what to do with the rest. There is a kind of…
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He Did Not Leave
When Faith Costs the Room Faith may empty a table. It does not empty the covenant. A word for the new believer whose group chat went quiet, and for the older saint who still checks the chair that used to be filled. There is a table most people do not put in a testimony. The…
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Test the Word
A Biblical Guide for Discerning Prophetic Ministries “Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:20–21We will never stand in this ministry and say, “Thus saith the Lord” over next week’s headlines. That is not our calling. The calling we do have is older and quieter: point people to the Book that…
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Don’t Judge the Ink
You saw the dreads. You saw the ink.A lot of people wrote the ending before the man ever opened his mouth. Brian “Head” Welch had the stage, the money, the name, and the addiction. He has said it himself: fame did not fill him. The drugs did not fill him. He still called the inside…
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It Is Finished
A picture can make you think of the Cross. Only He can finish the work. Creation is not thin. It is older than your questions and stranger than most sermons. Oaks hold on. Scarlet comes from small lives people once crushed for holy cloth. A hillside takes the weather and does not explain itself. If…
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The House I Learned
How you get to the altar can change. What a thin yes costs does not. A word for anyone who grew up in a quiet, unhappy house and is being asked to marry before they have healed — and for a church that knows how to decorate a wedding better than it knows how to…
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