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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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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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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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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Coming clean is not a group-chat performance. It is a year of weight, a named sin, and a name you finally change. A message for the one still carrying last year’s words, and the one who saved the number under the wrong name. The clip is five minutes of a woman in a work chair,…
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The mark of a true Christian is not the box you checked. It is a heart He has changed. A message for the one who has done all the things and still does not know Him You already know the question. You have asked it about other people. You may be afraid to ask it…
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Hard Road, Living Redeemer — Week 3 Your worst chapter does not own the deed. You have been living like it does. You keep a private ledger of everything ugly — the nights, the words, the doors you left open, the years you spent what belonged to God on something that could not love you…
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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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