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 stranger came up the boards with a case in his hand. He did not start with a fist. He started with an invitation. Come and hear what I can do. That is an old way in. Pride first, played fast. Then a shortcut that glitters. Then fear, when the other two have not moved…
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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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A holy life can point. It cannot pay. Honour the witnesses. Kneel to the Son. A word for anyone who keeps Jesus on a shelf of good names, and uses other holy lives to keep from needing the only Name that saves. There is a generous room in a lot of houses. Photographs on the…
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Christianity is not a flag you hoist so a civilization can survive. It is a Person you kneel to so a sinner can live. A meme has been moving through Facebook this week. Enough of you have sent it that it needs an answer from the church, not another share. I am not going to…
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Hard Road, Living Redeemer — Week 4 Praise is not pretending the road got easy. It is raising a voice when the night is still heavy because the Redeemer still lives. You have walked three weeks of hard truth. You do not have to fake fine. The God who finds you there is a living…
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Hard Road, Living Redeemer — Week 1 Smile in the foyer. Bleed in the truck. You already know how to do both. You know how to shake a hand under the steeple and say the week was fine. Busy. Just a season. You know how to keep the engine running in the dark parking lot…
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Dolly Parton – January 19, 1946 – August 25, 2026 We join millions in mourning the homegoing of Dolly Parton. We do not write this to claim her story, to sell a moment, or to stand in the light she spent a lifetime giving away. We write it because a gift from God has gone…
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Walking Through Betrayal, Emotional Abuse, and Broken Families There is a particular kind of quiet devastation that settles over a woman when the man who vowed to love and protect her instead chooses other women, then turns the full force of blame onto her. When that same man weaponizes the hearts of their children—so that…
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When Christ’s Design Meets the Spirit of the Age In an age that mocks headship and redefines womanhood, the church must return to the only reliable measure God has given. For men, the measure is Christ Himself — the Husband who laid down His life. For women, Scripture places a clear scale before us: the…
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