Tag Archives: Jesus

Twisted Truths | The Only Time You Should Look Back… (And Why That’s a Lie)

On the anniversary of my daddy’s birthday, I push back against the viral platitude “The only time you should look back is to see how far you’ve come.” Memories aren’t anchors, they’re altars. A reflection on grief, holy remembrance, and why looking back is sacred, biblical work.

Verse & Vision | July 8, 2026

In a season of shifting sands – job loss, health battles, and the grief of the falling away – Paul’s words call us not to strive but to be fully clothed in God’s provision. This Verse & Vision explores what the full armor really means for everyday wilderness warriors, how it brings freedom to stand, and why our hearts can remain unshaken even when the dunes move. A reminder that the battle belongs to the Lord, and His armor never fails.

Authenticity Unveiled | What Nicaea Actually Decided

There’s a stubborn myth that Constantine invented Jesus’ divinity and hand-picked the Bible at Nicaea. Here’s what the actual historical record shows—and why the truth still matters for anyone wrestling with faith.

Verse & Vision | July 6, 2026

Paul reminds us in 2 Corinthians 3:17 that where the Spirit of the Lord is, the heart is free. This verse contrasts the old covenant veil of law and condemnation with the new covenant freedom we have in Christ. It invites us to live unveiled, unburdened, and fully alive as we step into the presence of the Spirit.

Sunday Sessions | The Slow Hardening: When Sin No Longer Troubles Us

The longer we live with sin, the less it disturbs us — until the heart grows dangerously numb. This post explores the slow hardening of the conscience, the deceit of sin, and the tender mercy of a God who still searches us and offers a heart of flesh. A timely call to stay soft while it is still called ‘Today.’

Verse & Vision | July 5, 2026

Proverbs 19:17 offers a beautiful promise: when we help the poor, we are lending directly to the Lord — and He will repay. This verse reframes generosity as an act of faith and trust in God’s faithful return.

Verse & Vision | July 3, 2026

In Luke 9:23-24 Jesus invites us into the paradox of discipleship: we must deny ourselves, take up our cross daily, and follow Him. The life we try so hard to cling to is the one we risk losing — but the life we willingly surrender for His sake is the one we truly find and keep forever.

Verse & Vision | July 1, 2026

Paul doesn’t tell you to feel joyful about your affliction. He tells you to stay hopeful underneath it, to remain there without collapsing, and to keep showing up in prayer while you wait. Three present participles, one continuous posture — because removing any one of them collapses the other two. Corrie ten Boom prayed in a concentration camp barracks the guards wouldn’t enter. That’s what this verse looks like with skin on.

Look Again | The Jesus You May Not Know

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.

Verse & Vision | June 30, 2026

I sat down this morning to write about someone else’s hypocrisy. I’m ending the post writing about my own instead, because Luke 6:27 wouldn’t let me get away with the version I wanted to write. This isn’t a takedown. It’s a mirror.

Verse & Vision | June 27, 2026

The order in James 4:7 is not incidental. Submit first — hupotassō, to arrange yourself under proper authority, voluntarily and actively. Then resist — antistēte, to take a firm stand against. Then the promise: he will flee. You cannot effectively resist from a position of self-sovereignty. The authority to stand against the enemy comes from the position of submission to God. Willpower won’t do it. Spiritual intensity won’t do it. Humility — placing yourself under the right authority — is what gives the resistance its ground.

Verse & Vision | June 26, 2026

Paul doesn’t criticize the human hunger for glory and honor in Romans 2:7 — he redirects it. Doxa, timē, aphtharsia: glory, honor, immortality. These are not small ambitions. They’re the right ambitions, aimed at the wrong things by most people. The person Paul describes keeps moving toward what lasts, with hypomonē — the same patient endurance that remains under the weight rather than escaping it. Not perfect. Persistently oriented. That’s the portrait. The question underneath it isn’t “have I done enough?” It’s “what am I actually seeking?”

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.

Verse & Vision | June 25, 2026

Phroneite — set your minds — is the same word Paul uses in Philippians 2 for the mind of Christ and in Philippians 4 for whatever is true and good and worthy. It’s not a thought exercise. It’s the full disposition of the inner life: where attention, affection, and allegiance are pointed. And Paul’s logic in Colossians 3 is therefore — because you have already died with Christ and your life is hidden in Him, orient from that reality. This isn’t aspiration. It’s consequence. You don’t need to get to things above. You already belong there.

Verse & Vision | June 24, 2026

Poiēma — workmanship — is where we get the English word “poem.” It appears only twice in the New Testament: here, and in Romans 1:20 where it describes creation itself. Paul reaches for the word an artisan would use for his finest, most intentional work. And then: proētoimasen — prepared in advance. The good works weren’t waiting for you to figure them out. They were prepared before you arrived at them. You are not an accident. Your purpose was not an afterthought. You are God’s crafted work, saved not by works but absolutely for them.