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Reject Rejection: You Are Accepted
Rejection is a powerful force. It can shape identities, distort self-worth, and fracture relationships. Whether it comes from people, past failures, or internal doubts, rejection leaves a mark. Many live under the heavy weight of not being good enough — not smart enough, not spiritual enough, not lovable enough. But the message of the gospel…
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The Law of Carburetor Icing: It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
In General Aviation, many aircraft still operate with carbureted engines. Pilots are trained to recognize a peculiar and potentially dangerous phenomenon known as carburetor icing. Under certain conditions—typically when flying through moist air at partial power settings—the carburetor throat can become cold enough to cause water vapor to freeze. This builds up ice inside the…
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The Lord, The Battle, and The Enemy’s Tactics
In warfare, the first rule is clear: know your enemy. Understand his strategies, his weapons, his weaknesses. Study his movements, anticipate his attacks, and prepare your defense. Nations pour resources into intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance because they know ignorance in battle is fatal. But in the spiritual realm, the first rule of warfare is…
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When God Disappoints: Faith in the Face of Unmet Expectations
Every believer eventually wrestles with it—an ache of the soul, a silent cry, a deeply personal question: Why didn’t God come through? You prayed. You believed. You waited. And yet, the doors stayed closed. The healing didn’t come. The opportunity disappeared. The miracle never arrived. You’re left not just disappointed in how life turned out—but…
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Shame vs. Sorrow: God’s Path to Redemption and Restoration
There’s a difference between feeling bad and being made new. Everyone feels guilt at some point. We mess up. We hurt others. We sin. The natural human response is to feel some sense of remorse. But not all remorse is the same. The Bible draws a sharp contrast between worldly shame and godly sorrow—one leads…
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A Holy Restlessness: When God Stirs but Doesn’t Yet Send
There is a kind of unrest that isn’t born of sin, fear, or rebellion. It’s not the kind of turmoil that comes from wandering far from God or making destructive choices. It’s something else entirely. A holy restlessness. A stirring in the soul that unsettles you, not away from God, but toward something you cannot…
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What’s in Your Hand?
When God called Moses from the burning bush in Exodus 3, the task was massive: deliver Israel from the most powerful nation on earth. Moses, like most of us would, protested. “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” (Exodus 3:11). God responded not with a resume…
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Don’t Try to Steal God’s Glory: It’s His. Be Humble.
“I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.” – Isaiah 42:8 There is a deep temptation in the human heart to take credit for what God alone has done. It happens quietly at first. After praying, laboring, or enduring hardship, we may…
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Gideon’s Snare
“Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.” – Judges 8:27 Gideon is often remembered as the reluctant hero of Israel—called from obscurity to deliver his people from the oppressive Midianites.…
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Did God Really Say?
The first recorded question in Scripture didn’t come from a seeker of truth—it came from the father of lies. “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”— Genesis 3:1 It’s subtle. It sounds harmless. But that question was more than a simple inquiry—it was a seed of doubt. It…
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