When God Doesn't Show Up on Time: Trusting God in the Waiting Have you ever sent up a prayer and heard nothing but silence? Have you ever watched someone you love suffer and wondered, God, where are you? If you've walked through any real difficulty in life, you know that feeling. And if you're honest,
Who Is Your Shepherd? Why Following Jesus Changes Everything Have you ever been called a "sheep"? Maybe someone has thrown the word "sheeple" at you — that cynical label for people who follow a religion without thinking, without questioning. It stings a little, doesn't it? But here's what I want you to consider: the real
Who Is Your Shepherd? Five Reasons to Follow Jesus Have you ever stopped to ask yourself who — or what — is actually leading your life? Maybe it's a podcast host, a social media algorithm, a parent's voice you've never quite gotten free of, or maybe it's just your own gut. Here's the truth: nobody is
I Once Was Blind: What a Healed Man Teaches Us About Seeing What Really Matters Have you ever met someone who could look right at the evidence and still refuse to see it? Not because the proof wasn't there — but because seeing it would cost them something? That's exactly what happens in one of
From Darkness to Light: How Jesus Transforms the Monumental Effects of Sin Have you ever been asked, "If God is so good, why is there so much suffering in the world?" It's one of the toughest questions people raise — and honestly, it's one that touches every single one of us. Cancer. Disability. Death. Pain.
Are You Sure You're Right? The Dangerous Cost of Wrong Assumptions About Jesus What if the thing you were most confident about turned out to be completely wrong? A few years ago, my mom sat down at an Amish restaurant, looked at the plate in front of her, and said, "Oh, that looks good." She
Every Believer Is a Minister: Your Role in the Great Commission What if I told you that the job of reaching your entire county with the gospel doesn't belong to your pastor — it belongs to you? That might sound surprising, or maybe even a little uncomfortable. But here's the thing: the Bible makes it pretty
How to Break Free from Spiritual Bondage What kind of freedom do you actually have? On September 18, 1787, Benjamin Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention when a local leader named Elizabeth Willing Powell asked what kind of government had been formed by the new Constitution. Franklin replied instantly and memorably: "A republic, if you can
Is Jesus Really Who He Claims to Be? His Credentials Demand a Response Have you ever been on a plane in serious turbulence? I have. We were flying back to Akron, Ohio, and as we started our descent, the plane went down, came back up, went down again, came back up — three attempts to
How to Avoid a Tragic and Eternal Death: Four Warnings from John 8 What if the very thing you're trusting to get you to heaven is actually keeping you from it? That's the uncomfortable question Jesus put to some of the most religious people of his day — and it's just as relevant today. In John
