The Jesus most people carry in their hearts is not the Jesus who walked Galilee. He is a soft echo, a trimmed down version built for a culture that cannot stomach holiness with teeth. This is the side of Christ the modern church leaves out: angry without sin, confrontational without losing love, forgiving without forgetting. It is time to meet the whole Christ, not the curated one.
Category Archives: Look Again | A Different Perspective
Look Again | What the Full Moon Is Actually Telling You
A column about the June 30th Strawberry Moon crossed my path this week. Good observations, real questions — wrapped in astrological language that most Christians will scroll right past. I want to gently say: look again. Because underneath the framework is something that requires no astrological belief to receive. There is real science here. There is ancient wisdom here. And there is, if you have eyes to see it, the fingerprint of a God who designed all of this on purpose, long before anyone gave it a label.
Look Again | Abiding: Two Trees, One Field, Two Realities
I was headed to a local wildlife management area before the world fully woke up, camera bag on the seat beside me, fog still thick across the fields. That is when I noticed the trees. Two of them, standing in perfect alignment with one another, maybe twenty feet apart. The one closest to the pond’s edge was full — genuinely, quietly full. The other stood at that twenty-foot distance from the water and it showed. Same pasture. Same sky. Same drought. Twenty feet of distance from the source, and two entirely different realities. I have lived in both of those trees.
Look Again | Series Premiere
Creation has been preaching the whole time. We just stopped attending the sermon. This is an invitation to lift your eyes from the crisis long enough to see what has been surrounding you all along — not as an escape from the hard thing, but as a reorientation within it.