This is not a polished testimony with a tidy ending. This is what it actually looks like when the shaking is happening — in real time, in a real life, with a real God who is not confused even when I am. I had thought my faith was at the strongest it had ever been. And then the month I’m about to describe happened. This is what I found when I got quiet enough.
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Patterns, Cycles, and Ancient Warnings: Exploring the Work of Jonathan Cahn
There was a sycamore tree at the corner of Ground Zero. On September 11, 2001, it was struck by debris from the falling towers and destroyed. The stump was kept. You can look it up, see the photographs, and visit the location. It happened whether anyone was looking for it or not. That is one of nine documented harbingers Jonathan Cahn traces between a single verse from the eighth century BC and the events of that morning. This post is my full engagement with his work — because the material deserves more than a summary.
Why I Believe We Are Living in the End Times — and Why I’m Unbothered by Those Who Think I’ve Lost My Marbles
I’m aware of how this title lands. I’ve seen the eye-rolls, and honestly, I get it — the end times space has more than its share of sensationalism, date-setting, and people who seem to be enjoying the chaos a little too much. I’m not that. What I am is someone who has spent a lot of time looking carefully at Scripture, at history, and at current events — and who finds the convergence of all three genuinely difficult to dismiss. This is not a panic post. It’s a reference post. Take what’s useful, push back on what you disagree with, and at minimum, consider the possibility that the patterns are worth a serious look.
Science & Spirituality | Dinosaurs are Fake… DId You Know?
The Bible never uses the word “dinosaur” — and there’s a very good reason for that. It might not be what you think. Welcome to Did You Know? — a new series pulling back the curtain on the things that look like contradictions but are actually just gaps in translation, time, and context.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | Passing the Scroll
These aren’t questions that destabilize Scripture. What they destabilize is a shallow relationship with Scripture. A faith that can’t survive honest examination probably needed, and still needs, to be examined.
Sunday Sessions | Grace
Dr. Frank Turek asked on X yesterday, “how would you describe grace to someone?” I couldn’t help but write I a long-winded reply to that post, because I learned loved grace the hard way, and I feel so humbled when I am reminded of the cost of it. Today’s Sunday Session is how I would describe grace.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | Where I Stand
This is the part of this series where I stop circling the evidence and tell you plainly where all of this has landed for me. Not a conclusion to the questions, per se, but the position I’ve taken inside of them.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | Where the Thread Held
The Dead Sea Scrolls put real pressure on things I thought I understood — canon, transmission, messianic expectation. But pressure is not the same as rupture. A thread under tension is still a thread. This is where it held.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | What the Scrolls Complicate
The Dead Sea Scrolls don’t undermine the faith. They complicate the comfortable version of it — and that’s not the same thing. Canon fluidity, textual variants, messianic plurality: none of these are hidden, none are invented, and none of them get to stay safely unexamined. Part 3 of What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | My Father’s Questions
Part 2 of What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word traces the questions my father couldn’t put down — about canon, suppression, and the distance between institutional Christianity and the faith Scripture actually describes. It also traces what those questions cost him, what they planted in me without my knowing, and what it took for me to finally understand the inheritance he left behind. This one got personal. I think it needed to.
What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word | The Discovery
In 1947, a young Bedouin shepherd threw a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea and heard something break. What was inside those clay jars would become the most significant manuscript discovery in modern history — and would take decades of scholarly struggle, controversy, and one very persistent librarian to finally reach the rest of the world. This is Part One of What the Desert Kept: The Unbound Word, a five-part deep dive into the Dead Sea Scrolls — their discovery, their contents, the community that preserved them, and the Scriptural threads that held across nearly two thousand years of silence.
When Leaves Aren’t Enough: The Real Work of Spiritual Formation | Daily Bread
Spiritual appearance comes naturally. Showing up, saying the right things, checking the right boxes — from a distance, it all looks like faith. But Jesus wasn’t fooled by a leafy tree with nothing underneath, and He isn’t fooled by us either. In this promised deep dive from the Leaves but No Fruit post, we get honest about the gap between looking formed and actually being formed — what creates it, why it’s so easy to miss, and what real transformation actually looks like from the inside out. Spoiler: it’s slower, harder, and more honest than most of us expect.
Sunday Sessions | When You Actually Go Look | A Deeper Dive + Follow-Up
I used to take the Bible at face value, or dismiss it just as quickly. Then I started going and looking. Really looking.
What I found surprised me: forty-plus authors spread across three continents and fifteen centuries, writing in exile, dungeons, wildernesses, and royal courts. Most never met. Most never coordinated. And yet they produced one unbroken story.
Creation. Fall. Promise. Rescue. Restoration.
That’s the arc, and it’s held throughout fifteen centuries, three continents, and forty voices who never once compared notes
The promised seed in Genesis 3:15. The lamb provided by God in Genesis 22, echoed in the Passover, fulfilled in John’s cry: “Behold, the Lamb of God.” Prophecies specific enough to name the details centuries in advance: thirty pieces of silver, a donkey, pierced hands and feet, a birthplace called Bethlehem.
No committee could have engineered that.
The more I studied the geography, the manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the languages, the sheer improbability of the coherence, the harder it became to wave away.
Questions still remain. I expect they always will. But they don’t push me out anymore. They pull me deeper in.
This is what happens when you actually go look.
Sunday Sessions | What I Heard in the Quiet, and What I’m Still Wrestling With
“If you’ve turned your back on Israel, you hate your own Savior.” A meditation-born truth that won’t let go. Honest reflections on Jesus’ Jewishness, biblical contradictions, Paul’s challenging passages, and why some questions stay with us until the other side.
Sunday Sessions | Finding God Under All the Religious Stuff
There is something nobody tells you about deconstruction: sometimes you tear down everything you thought you believed, only to find the thing you were actually looking for was buried underneath all along. This statement will be old news for many. For many, still, it will feel familiar, and as they read on I suspect theyContinueContinue reading “Sunday Sessions | Finding God Under All the Religious Stuff”
Sunday Sessions | The Alarms of Prophecy: Elam in the Headlines and the Call to the Harpazo
Recent and unfolding geopolitical events echo Jeremiah’s prophetic warnings about judgment. This post connects those signs to Scripture and urges readers to consult Scripture, repent and seek salvation in Christ before it’s too late.
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