When the Accuser Speaks and the Truth Answers Many of you have seen Ren Gill’s performance of Hi Ren. It’s hard to forget. A young man in a hospital gown sits in a wheelchair in a bare, decaying room. With nothing but an acoustic guitar and his own voice, he stages an intense conversation between…
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A warning about a prayer that arrives with an excuse On 6 October 2026, a city council meeting in Ottumwa, Iowa, opened with a prayer. The man at the microphone was not the mayor. He was a resident, a former council member, and a member of The Satanic Temple. He asked the room to stand.…
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There are two sentences a man can hear from God, and they do not cancel each other. Nathan the prophet looked at a king who had taken a woman and arranged a death, and he said, “The Lord also has put away your sin.” In the same breath he said the sword would not leave…
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She was a young mother, and the night was not finished with her After the birth she left her body. That is how she has always told it. Not a dream she climbed out of in the morning. A leaving. She went down the halls of the hospital and saw the night shift at their…
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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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You do not have to make the sound. A gift of the Spirit cannot be practised into existence, and it must not be required for belonging. When a church, a porch, or a workplace circle treats tongues as the handshake, a new believer will be tempted to produce what he has not been given. That…
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Children are not a prize for adults. They are a heritage from the Lord. “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.” (Psalm 127:3) When we speak about adoption, we are speaking about one of the most solemn trusts a society can give: the care of a child…
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A child’s gift is not a parent’s god. A message for the parent still living in the stands You already know why you opened this. Not because you needed another lecture on parenting. Because something in the house has gone tight, and you have been calling the tightness by softer names. Support. Pride. Investment. He…
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Infidelity learned a quieter door. A message for the husband or wife still hiding in the glow of the screen You already know why you opened this. Not because you needed another lecture on marriage. Because something in the house has gone cold, and you have been calling the cold by softer names. Coping. Privacy.…
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There are seasons when the weight of oppression settles in like a long, hard winter. Eighteen years. That is how long Israel lived under the heavy hand of Eglon, king of Moab. Tribute flowed out of their fields and into his storehouses. The people grew weary, then numb, then finally desperate enough to cry out.…
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