Facing the Fear of AI with Justice, Dignity, and Trust in God There is a quiet fear moving through a lot of conversations right now. It is not the loud panic of movies or headlines. It is the slower kind—the one that sits with you after you close the laptop or put the phone down.…
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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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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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Four-Fold Blessings: Clear, Kind, Loving, and Bountiful Deuteronomy 10:12–22 and 11:1–17 show us a God who does not leave His people guessing, abandoned, or empty-handed. In these words Moses holds up four expressions of the Lord’s blessing. They are not abstract ideas; they are the way God relates to the people He has chosen. Even…
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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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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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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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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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