There is a question at the centre of this parable that Jesus never lets the lawyer escape — and that He never lets us escape either. Not “Who is my neighbour?” — which is the question the lawyer asked, hoping for a manageable answer with boundaries he could defend. But the question Jesus turns back…
Before the first human being ever drew breath, before the garden was planted, before the first word of creation was spoken into the void — there was already a war. Not a war of armies or nations. A war of wills. A revolt of the most glorious creature ever made against the One who made…
< Paul opens 1 Corinthians 12 with something urgent: “Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.” He had watched what happened to a church full of spiritually gifted people who did not understand their gifts — comparison, pride, envy, disorder, and worst of all,...
They are not the soft, androgynous figures of Renaissance paintings. They are not the plump, winged infants that appear on greeting cards every February. They carry no harps and no certificates of angelic achievement. And the earliest known Christian artwork — found in a Roman catacomb dating to the third century — shows them without…
What This Verse Actually Means, Why You’ve Probably Misunderstood It, and Why the Real Meaning Is Far More Powerful ✦ It might be the most quoted Bible verse in sport. It appears on wristbands and warm-up shirts, chalk-written on locker room boards before championship games, stitched onto gym bags and tattooed on forearms. It…
Most people understand thanksgiving as something they owe God — a duty to acknowledge what He has given, a discipline they should practise more consistently, a habit that good Christians maintain. That framing is not wrong, but it is incomplete. Because the Bible does not only tell us to give thanks as an obligation. It…
Thankfulness is one of those words that sounds simple until the Bible gets hold of it. In casual usage it means little more than polite acknowledgement — saying thank you when someone holds a door, remembering to write a card, pausing for a moment of gratitude before a meal. Nice habits. Good manners. But not…
The most dangerous lies you will ever believe are not the dramatic ones. They are the quiet ones — the ones that sound like your own thoughts. I am not enough. I am too broken to be used. I am too far gone to be forgiven. I am what I have done. I am what…
There are days when God’s love feels like the most obvious truth in the universe — when the sunrise is too beautiful to be accidental, when a verse lands exactly where you needed it, when someone shows up at precisely the right moment and you just know it wasn’t coincidence. And then there are the…
What do you do with Father’s Day when it’s not a simple holiday? Marcus could tell you. He’s 51. Sits third row, right side, same seat every Sunday. Has held the same Bible since his youngest daughter was born — the spine is cracked at Psalm 103 because he opened it there so many times…