Scripture reading: Luke 17:26–30 (also Matthew 24:37–39) “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all……
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When the Years Feel Heavy and the Father’s Shadow Is Long There is a song that has followed me for a long time—Simply Red’s “Holding Back the Years.” It is not a gospel song. Mick Hucknall wrote it as a teenager about a childhood marked by an absent mother and a stern father. Two lines…
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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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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 church can keep quiet and call the quiet peace. We will not. This is not a word about a party. It is not a forecast with a year written on it. It is a warning. Canada has made a way to end a life on purpose, with a form, a second signature, and a…
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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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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 already know why you opened this. Not because you needed another lecture on parenting. Because the house is quiet enough now that you can hear the question you have been carrying since the first night they slept in the next room. What will they become? You can feed them. You can buckle them. You…
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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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