Most people are still reading President Trump’s foreign policy through a lens that hasn’t been accurate for decades. What’s being attempted isn’t just a minor policy adjustment; it’s a fundamental restructuring of how America positions itself in the global order. Whether it succeeds or fails, every American should understand what’s at stake. As believers, we have an even greater responsibility to pay attention.
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Verse & Vision | May 26, 2026
Jesus had just left the temple for the last time. His disciples asked him two questions about the end. His first word in response was not a timeline, or a sign. It was a warning. Before anything else – before wars, famines, or earthquakes – He said: Take heed that no man deceive you. That was not an accident. Matthew 24 is one of the most significant and most mishandled passages in all of scripture. Today we give it the full weight it deserves.
Dear Christians… | You MUST Employ Discernment in the Mainstream Church
A lot of people who decide to read the Bible for themselves for the first time quickly realize something uncomfortable, and in many ways disturbing: when it comes to mainstream theology, we’ve been duped.
The institutional church is in the falling away, but it’s happening systematically, and most of us have been looking for the wrong signs.
I want to show you what scholars wrote two hundred years ago, before the drift, and let you decide whether the plain text agrees with what you’ve been taught.
Did You Know? | The Credibility of the Bible
The Bible is sixty-six books written by forty different people over fifteen hundred years. Archaeologists have used it to uncover civilizations scholars insisted never existed. Over three hundred prophecies described one specific person centuries before he arrived – and then Jesus fulfilled all of them. The witnesses who saw him die and come back didn’t return to wealth or power. They returned to testimony, and died for it. The proof is abundant. It is, at the very least, worth considering.
The Fourth Cup | Daily Bread
Someone told me to look up the fourth cup. So I did. What I found locked into place something I had already sensed was true – that there is a literal thread running from the upper room straight to the cross, held together by a cup Jesus deliberately did not drink. This is not symbolism. This is the most purposeful love story ever told.
The Map You Were Told to Ignore | The Author’s Perspective
It was five o’clock this morning when I fell down a rabbit hole about a 7th-century Chinese prophecy text and ended up face to face with something I think the church is dangerously close to missing. The Tui Bei Tu has outlasted emperors, purges, and censorship for 1,400 years. So has scripture. That is not a coincidence. That is a pattern. And patterns are exactly what prophecy is for.
Verse and Vision | May 11, 2026
Verse and Vision is a daily series exploring the verse of the day — not just what it says, but what it means. Each post unpacks the biblical context, digs into the original language, and traces the historical and philosophical world behind the text. Where the Word echoes across history, we follow it. Where it lands in the present, we don’t look away.
The Survival Manual I Almost Overlooked | The Author’s Perspective
I’ve been failing the test lately, with the weight of the world pressing down until it felt like water closing over my head. But God was determined to remind me of the survival manual He left us for times exactly like these. Through a stranger’s words on X, my mother’s “ghost,” and a chain of events that only make sense if He lined every single one up, God showed me how to stop carrying the wrong weight… and how to shift into the one posture that actually changes everything: counting it all joy.
It’s All Nonsense, Except Soul | Daily Bread
The people who are willing to honestly acknowledge when something feels deeply wrong are often the ones closest to real clarity. Not because discomfort or suffering is somehow noble in itself, but because the courage to sit with that unease, to follow the questions all the way down instead of numbing them or pushing them away, is exactly how truth begins to find us.
What Hard Seasons and Scripture Taught Me About Feelings | Daily Bread
Your brain is constantly scanning, analyzing, and assigning meaning to your circumstances, and then producing a feeling based on that interpretation. The feeling is real, but the interpretation is not always accurate. In short, our brains often lie to us. Feelings are data, but they are not always reliable data. This is not just theology. It is neuroscience. And it matters enormously for the Christian.
The Battle Within, The Rest Beyond | Spiritual Foundations for Healing
Healing is hard because it is a constant battle between your inner child, who is scared and just wants safety; your inner teenager, who is angry and just wants justice; and your current self, who is tired and just wants peace. In my experience, the only true solution to that battle is to surrender it to God and allow Him to work in your life, on His terms and in His time.
In That Day: Zechariah, Psalms 83, and the Prophetic Picture Nobody Is Discussing
The ceasefire expired today. The USS George H.W. Bush is in the region. Iran is filling its oil tanks and its lawmakers are openly floating a preemptive strike. And underneath all of it, four prophetic passages — Zechariah 12, Psalms 83, Isaiah 17, and Jeremiah 49 — may not be a sequence of future events at all, but a single moment already taking shape. In this post I walk through the biblical framework, what is happening on the ground, the spiritual architecture of the strong delusion, and what it means to live ready. These are not my conclusions. They are an invitation to yours.
The Double Portion: What Shame Is Really Pointing You Toward | Daily Bread
This morning someone very close to me said something that stopped me mid-morning and opened a conversation about one of the most misunderstood experiences in both human psychology and the Christian faith: shame. I considered what shame actually is, what it’s actually for, and why God never intended for us to make it our home.
If you are dealing with shame over your past behavior or choices, make no mistake. Shame is not meant to be wallowed in. It is meant to point us toward conviction and guide us forward into righteousness. It is a signal, not a sentence. A starting line, not a finish line.
God wants to restore you, just as He promises to do for Israel. The question is not whether He is willing. The question is whether you will allow Him to work in your life, or whether you will let shame block the blessing He is already holding out to you.
The Image of the Cross: Curse or Blessing, and What Are You Living? | Daily Bread
Someone told me recently that wearing a cross is a sin. “It’s a graven image, a violation of God’s law.” But a careful study of Scripture tells a very different story.
The second commandment was never a prohibition against every image or symbol. It was a command against worshiping created things as gods. God himself commanded images to be made, each one pointing toward His glory, His presence, and His provision… and ultimately toward the cross.
Christ broke every curse the law carried through His sacrifice, fulfilling what none of us ever could. The cross around the neck of a humble, spirit-filled believer is not an idol. It is a symbol of redemption, freedom, and the good news of salvation. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, and we are commanded to carry that truth into the world.
Speaking Truth Is Not the Same as Judging | Daily Bread
To say “don’t judge” sounds humble. It sounds gracious. But underneath it is a confusion that quietly does harm to the very people it wants to protect. Speaking truth is not, in and of itself, judgment. And the kindest thing anyone can do for someone caught in sin is not to make them comfortable in it — it is to point them toward the One who can wash it clean.
Sunday Sessions | One Gospel, Two Roads (Or, The Argument I Once Used Against My Own Faith)
Many years ago, I tried to use this exact argument to prove my father’s faith was built on sand. I was wrong. Thirty years later someone posted it online and asked anyone to disprove it with scripture. I hope this answers their invitation well, and helps whoever reads it.
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