In these escalating times of prayer needs, job losses, and global unrest, God is calling us to greater clarity and conviction. As signs converge toward the rapture, stay anchored in Scripture, look up, and hold fast to hope. A prophetic encouragement to praise in difficulty and keep your eyes on Jesus.
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Authenticity Unveiled | Angry and of Good Cheer
I am angry, and I have stopped apologizing for it. Scripture never asked me to talk myself out of what I feel when I watch evil dress itself up and take a bow. It asked me what I do with it once it arrives. This is what it looks like to hold righteous anger in one hand and good cheer in the other, without letting either one cancel out the truth of the moment.
I Hate July.
There is a version of my father that exists on paper. It lists the facts of him the way facts do, accurately and without warmth. This is not that version. This is the one where he drove a demon out of his daughter’s house without flinching, opened his blue eyes one last time for her and nobody else, and taught her without ever once saying so that love is not a feeling you manage. It is a decision you make and keep making. I learned that in five days in July. I have never loved any other way since.
Authenticity Unveiled | The Book They Were Always Supposed to Read
I was raised learning the Bible. But it was in adulthood, when I began going back through the literary canon on my own terms, that I understood something no one had ever quite said plainly to me: every great work of Western literature is a shadow of the Scriptures. The Bible is not a religious artifact sitting beside Western civilization. It is the source code Western civilization runs on. It is the DNA. And people who do not know it do not understand America.
Sunday Sessions | Blows of Fate: Beethoven and the Symphony of Grace
There is a story behind the most recognizable four notes in all of Western music. Most of us have heard them: that short, insistent dun-dun-dun-dunnn that opens Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. We associate it with grandeur, with concert halls, with something important arriving. What we do not always know is that those four notes were born in something far less majestic. Beethoven called them the “blows of fate,” a phrase he used to describe the recurring difficulties that punctuated his life. The knocks did not stop. They kept coming. What he did was write them into the music anyway, and then he wrote past them, into something that sounds, unmistakably, like triumph. Not because the difficulties were resolved. But because he moved through them without being destroyed by them. I have thought about that a great deal lately.
Astral Theology, Biblical Signs, and the Times We Are Living In
The church reflexively rejects anything that sounds like astrology, but there is a significant difference between divination and what scholars call astral theology. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible does not tell us to ignore the sky. It tells us to watch it. And right now, what the sky is saying is remarkable.
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.