Faith, Scripture, and the Christian walk. Posts about what it means to follow God in a culture that has abandoned Him.
Faith Flow
My grandmother was not an easy woman to watch decline. She had been sharp her whole life. Quick with a Scripture, quicker with an opinion, and completely uninterested in being handled carefully just because she was old. She lived alone longer than anyone thought she should and she did it on purpose. Independence was not...
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Marriage has meant one thing for thousands of years across every culture, every religion, and every civilization that ever built something worth preserving. One man. One woman. A covenant that produces children, stabilizes communities, and reflects something God designed before governments existed. Then in the span of about a decade the most powerful institutions in...
Faith Flow
For a long time I was very good at being Christian. I knew the language. I knew the posture. I knew what a man of faith was supposed to sound like in a room full of believers and I could deliver it without effort. Hands raised at the right moment. Amen at the right volume....
Faith Flow
I have known men who have been saved for twenty years and are still having the same spiritual struggles they had in year one. Same temptations. Same blind spots. Same arguments with God about the same territory He asked them to surrender two decades ago. They know the Word. They attend church. They have the...
Faith Flow
Nobody announces the valley. The mountaintop gets a post. The breakthrough gets a testimony. The answered prayer gets the praise report and the raised hands and the forty-seven comments from people who were believing with you. And all of that is good and right and worth celebrating. But the valley — the long middle where...
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There are seasons where the Word feels flat. You open it and read it and close it and feel nothing. The same passages that used to land hard now pass through without friction. The verse that wrecked you two years ago reads like a familiar street sign — you see it, you recognize it, you...
There is a man who can tell you everything about God. The attributes. The names. The theological categories. He can walk you through systematic theology with confidence. He knows the arguments. He can defend the faith in a debate and cite chapter and verse without looking it up. His knowledge is real and it took...
Faith Flow
Most worship is easy when things are going well. The promotion came through. The relationship is good. The health report was clean. The bills are covered. On those Sundays the hands go up without effort and the gratitude is real and the words mean what they sound like. That is worship. It counts. But it...
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Somewhere along the way grace got redefined. It became the theological reason a man does not have to change. The divine permission slip for staying exactly where he is. The comfort that says God loves you as you are and stops there without finishing the sentence — loved as you are, but not left as...
Faith Flow
There is a version of Christianity that is almost entirely painless. You show up on Sunday. You know the songs. You dress right, greet right, say the right things in the right rooms. You have a Bible app on your phone and a verse in your Instagram bio. You believe in God the way most...