I Live Where the Machines Are Made
As technology grows more capable, the question becomes more personal: What does it mean to remain fully human? When every shortcut promises ease, discover the quiet invitation to think deeply, feel honestly and stay rooted in the voice of God. In a restless world of endless noise, his presence still steadies the heart — and reminds us who made us in the first place.
The Sweet, Poisonous Berry — How Idolatry Works and Dies
We all worship something. The question is whether what holds our hearts can actually hold us. Idols often disguise themselves as good things — comfort, success, approval or control—but they quietly demand what only God deserves. Discover why lasting freedom isn't found by trying harder but by returning to the Mercy King, whose love dismantles our false gods and teaches our restless hearts to rest in him.
Look and Live: The Only Cure for the Poison Within
Some wounds cannot be healed by trying harder. The poison runs too deep, and only God can provide the cure. In the wilderness, a strange command revealed an eternal truth: those who simply looked in faith were given life. Discover how an ancient bronze serpent points beyond itself to the cross — and why the same invitation still stands today: look and live.
God’s Two Books: The False War Between Science and Scripture
A rainbow can be explained by physics and still inspire wonder. The supposed conflict between science and Scripture is often overstated, as if understanding how something works somehow eliminates the One who made it possible. Yet many of history’s greatest scientists saw no contradiction. Nature and Scripture are not rival stories but two ways of encountering truth — each pointing beyond itself to the mystery, beauty and meaning woven into creation.
What If I Don’t Fit in a Box?
What if the things that make you different aren’t obstacles to knowing God but part of the way he designed you to find him? We spend so much energy trying to fit someone else’s mold that we miss the freedom of being faithfully ourselves. God isn’t asking you to become a copy of another believer. He invites you to bring your actual personality, rhythms and story into a real relationship with him.
Kierkegaard Against Comfort: The Brutal Demands Of Faith In An Age Of Easy Belief
Kierkegaard had little patience for comfortable Christianity. Faith, to him, was not a social identity or moral polish, but the hardest work of becoming oneself before God. Pleasure could distract. Duty could impress. Neither could save. True faith required surrender beyond what society could validate or reason could neatly explain. It was costly, daily and unfinished — a leap toward God that had to be made again and again.
Why Not Say It Aloud? Learning Honest Prayer From the Psalms
The Psalms assume something many of us forget: if God already knows our hearts, why hide them? Their prayers are startlingly honest — full of praise, doubt, gratitude, grief, confession and longing. The psalmists speak freely because they trust they are fully known and still welcomed. In teaching us to bring our whole selves before God, the Psalms reveal that honest prayer is not irreverence. It is intimacy.
Miracles, Order, and the Hand That Holds Both
The parting of the Red Sea is unforgettable, but Moses’ deeper question lingers: Why are we astonished when God interrupts nature yet indifferent to the order that sustains it every day? The same God who parts the waters also holds the tides in place, orders the stars and gives structure to reality itself. Miracles matter, but they point beyond themselves to the One whose wisdom upholds all things.
Still Enrolled: God Is Always Teaching You
Some lessons arrive through books, mentors and workshops. Others arrive disguised as disappointment, success or the realization that a milestone wasn't the finish line you imagined. Scripture describes wisdom as a lifelong pursuit, one that grows through humility rather than certainty. God’s work in us rarely ends where we expect it to. As long as we’re breathing, there is still something left to learn.
From Miracles To Mystery: How Faith Survived My Unanswered Prayers
A miraculous healing convinced him that God still works miracles. Years later, unanswered prayers forced him to wrestle with a harder question: Why does God intervene in some stories and remain silent in others? After witnessing both wonders and heartbreak, he discovered that faith isn't the absence of mystery. It's learning to trust God in the middle of it.
Maewyn's Mountain: Learning to Pray with Your Whole Life
Saint Patrick’s life of prayer began not in peace, but in captivity. As a teenage slave alone on Irish mountainsides, he learned to meet God in every moment — wind, rain, work, fear and silence. Prayer became less a task than a way of being present. The same invitation is ours: not to add one more thing, but to notice the God already with us.
Old Books: Water from Deep Wells
At sixteen, Augustine wanted God — eventually. In the meantime, he chased pleasure, ambition, recognition and every excuse he could find to postpone surrender. His story endures because it is so familiar. We know what it is like to hunger for something deeper while settling for less. The voices of believers from other centuries remind us that our struggles are not unique, and that God still meets restless hearts with grace.
The Architecture of Hope: Finding Beauty in the Blurred
Hope rarely arrives all at once. More often, it appears in fragments — in birdsong through open windows, sunlight on garden leaves, burnt cookies cooling on the counter, the quiet breathing of someone you love beside you in bed. We spend much of life straining for clarity while God keeps teaching us to notice beauty in the blurred edges of ordinary days. Perhaps faith is less about possessing certainty and more about learning, again and again, to believe that even fragile things still carry the architecture of hope.
Gods, Creatures, and the One Who Simply Is
Most gods are just creatures with better costumes — stronger, stranger, louder versions of us. But the God who meets Moses in the burning bush is not one more being among beings. He is Being itself: the great I AM. The plagues are not party tricks, but judgments against lesser powers. Egypt worships creatures. Moses encounters the Creator — the One from whom all existence comes.
Trading Heartache for Hope
Healing rarely happens all at once. More often, it comes through small acts of honesty, discipline and connection repeated over time. Left unattended, pain has a way of leaking into every relationship and quietly repeating itself across generations. But grace makes a different future possible. When we stop blaming, face our own wounds and let trusted people walk with us, heartache can slowly give way to hope. Growth may come in small steps, but even small steps can change the direction of a life — and eventually, a family.
What If the Emptiness Isn’t a Punishment?
Sometimes the hardest seasons are not marked by catastrophe but by silence — prayers that feel unanswered, worship that feels hollow, a faith that suddenly seems stripped of warmth. We assume something must be wrong with us or with God. But what if the emptiness is not abandonment or punishment? What if God is teaching us to seek him, not merely the feelings he gives? The dark night may feel like loss, but often it is the slow, painful work of learning to love God for himself.
Friendly but Not Deep Enough
Many churches are getting friendlier, but friendliness is not the same thing as deep connection. We know each other’s names, exchange prayer requests and sit beside one another on Sundays, yet still carry private loneliness home in silence. Real discipleship requires more than warm greetings and occasional small talk. It asks for honesty, accountability, shared burdens and the courage to be known. The church doesn’t just need better hospitality; it needs relationships strong enough to help people become whole.
Half of Us Are Lonely and Church Isn’t Helping
We are more connected than ever and yet strangely unknown. Many churches offer smiles, handshakes and crowded lobbies, but still leave people carrying private ache into empty homes. Jesus envisioned something deeper than polite acquaintance — a people who bear burdens, share meals, tell the truth and stay when life gets hard. The loneliness epidemic may be one of the clearest opportunities the church has to recover what it was always meant to be: a family where no one disappears unnoticed.
Beyond Reason but Not Against It
Faith is not the rejection of reason but the recognition that God is bigger than what reason alone can explain. Christianity begins with miracles — a resurrection, an empty tomb, a Spirit who still moves in the world. The same God who stirred kings and answered desperate prayers still works beyond human understanding today. Following Jesus means loving God with both mind and heart, learning to trust that what transcends explanation is not therefore irrational, but holy.
A Pot Without Handles
Suffering has a way of exposing the places we most want to hide — our weakness, dependence, fear, shame. We begin to believe we are burdens instead of beloved. But God does not look at us with disgust or disappointment. He sees us clearly and stays near anyway. Even the parts of ourselves we struggle to accept are not beyond his tenderness, his patience, or his ability to shape into something beautiful.