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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.

Accountability & Motivation: The Internal vs. External Battle

Accountability is often seen as something external—rules, expectations, or authority figures keeping us in line. But real accountability, the kind that leads to lasting change, isn’t about fear of consequences or the need to meet someone else’s standards. It’s about self-responsibility. It’s about deciding, for yourself, that your choices matter, that your actions shape yourContinueContinue reading “Accountability & Motivation: The Internal vs. External Battle”

The Standard of Self-Respect: Why It Begins With You

Sometimes it’s not that someone is disrespecting you, but they are treating you in a way they wouldn’t treat someone they respect. (Jared Mello) Read that again. At first glance, this quote is about how people treat us—how they reveal their level of respect (or lack thereof) through their actions. But if we stop there,ContinueContinue reading “The Standard of Self-Respect: Why It Begins With You”

The Lost Art of Common Sense: Skills We Need to Reclaim

We started this series to break down the nonsensical, one-sided, imbalanced takes we see repeated over and over—ideas that make absolutely no sense yet somehow dominate mainstream conversations. These takes are almost always based on “what works for me” rather than “what works for the majority of people,” and that self-centered, shortsighted mindset is theContinueContinue reading “The Lost Art of Common Sense: Skills We Need to Reclaim”