Living from the Source means the center of gravity has shifted. The primary question is no longer “How much am I getting back?” The deeper question becomes “What is God giving me to carry and to offer, and how do I steward it wisely?”
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Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — Pearls, Swine, and the Ongoing Yes
The command not to cast pearls before swine is a real warning. But it is a call to wisdom about how we give, not a release from the call to keep loving. There is a difference between guarding what is holy and refusing to let love move through us at all.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — What Healthy Love Actually Is
Most of the confusion around boundaries, self-awareness, and “too much” love does not start with those topics themselves. It starts with the fact that many people no longer have a clear understanding of what love actually is – psychologically, philosophically, or biblically.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self — Self-Awareness as Refined Selfishness
What often passes for self-awareness today is less about honest examination before God and more about the skilled protection of the emotional self. The language sounds wise. The fruit is often a quieter, more sophisticated form of selfishness.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self – The Incomplete Map
Psychology has given us a clear map for pouring from an empty self. What it cannot chart is the possibility that the pouring might not be coming from the self at all.
Science vs Spirituality | Beyond the Psychological Self – The Self is not the Source
Psychology has a clear map for pouring from an empty self. But what if the pouring is not coming from the self at all? What if it is coming from Him – and He always replenishes?
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session One – Foundations
This first session of Root Work lays the biblical foundation for deliverance and inner healing. It examines why the modern church (especially New Thought and therapeutic streams) has largely abandoned real spiritual authority, explains the strong man principle, and issues a clear warning: this work requires maturity and covering. Submission to God must come before resistance.
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 | May 23, 2026
There is a version of self-sacrifice that looks like the cross but isn’t. It gives and gives and gives, not from the overflow of a full and grounded soul, but from the hollow place of someone who has confused loving others with losing themselves.
Today’s passage does not call us to that. It calls us to something harder and more clarifying: the mindset of Christ, who emptied himself with full intention, for a defined purpose, in submission to the Father’s will – not in compliance with someone else’s desire for him.
Being true to yourself, in the way God means it, is not selfishness. It means honoring the soul God placed in you, protecting the purpose he put you here for, and refusing to sacrifice what is sacred on the altar of someone else’s comfort or convenience.
Self-surrender to God first, and then, from that grounded place, genuine love for others that actually does them good.
The Two Graves: When Grace Is Misjudged as Weakness
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” I came across this quote recently in response to the tragic death of Austin Metcalf—and the quiet, grace-filled response of his father, Justin Metcalf. In the face of unimaginable loss, this man has become the target of criticism—not for what he’s done, but forContinueContinue reading “The Two Graves: When Grace Is Misjudged as Weakness”
Sunday Sessions | The Rise and Rot of the “Wounded but Wise” Archetype (A Spiritual Crisis of Accountability)
A few years ago, I began to notice something unsettling. It started quietly—subtle personality shifts in spiritual communities, vague contradictions in activist spaces, increasingly defensive energy cloaked in talk of “healing” and “boundaries.” But now, it’s impossible to miss. Before we explore that idea, though, you’ll notice that the posting schedule here has gone fromContinueContinue reading “Sunday Sessions | The Rise and Rot of the “Wounded but Wise” Archetype (A Spiritual Crisis of Accountability)”
Authenticity Unveiled | A Continuing Discussion on Discernment: On Dependency, Communion, and Channeling
There’s a specific kind of fog that settles in when people lose their spiritual grounding but still want to sound enlightened. It gets thicker in comment sections, especially under videos like the one I recently saw of Eckhart Tolle. In the video, he’s talking about the difference between channeling and communion. And while his toneContinueContinue reading “Authenticity Unveiled | A Continuing Discussion on Discernment: On Dependency, Communion, and Channeling”