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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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 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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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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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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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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A church can be a refuge without becoming a room where the truth is not allowed to speak. Neutrality is sometimes wisdom. Sometimes it is just fear with better lighting. A word for the one who keeps the peace by going quiet, and the one who thinks volume is the same thing as courage. There…
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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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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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