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Honest notes on emotional faith, spiritual burnout, and the slow work of abiding — written for anyone tired of measuring God by how much they felt last Sunday.
The sentence that finally got the grip off my calling: everything I'm holding was handed to me.
Read the piece →Some of my most spiritual-sounding prayers were ambition wearing a worship accent.
6 min read →The test isn't whether you'll thank God in the quiet. It's whether you'll name Him while the applause is still warm.
5 min read →I kept waiting to be told something new. He kept asking me to stay with what He already gave me.
6 min read →One day the applause, the numbers and the opinions are all gone, and one sentence is left. I want to hear it.
6 min read →I thought I was chasing God. Looking back, I realize I was often chasing an experience of God. And there is a difference.
8 min read →The scariest question I ever asked God was whether I would still follow Him if it never made me look good.
6 min read →I waited years to feel ready, feel called, feel peace. Turns out obedience usually arrives before the feeling does.
5 min read →I consumed more good teaching in one year than most believers get in ten, and I was starving the whole time.
6 min read →Nobody is going to celebrate your twelfth quiet Tuesday in a row. God is not nobody.
5 min read →The room empties in twenty minutes. What you do in the next twenty-four hours is the real service.
6 min read →For years my spiritual thermometer was my own nervous system. If I cried, God showed up. If I felt nothing, He must have left.
6 min read →The crash did not come through scandal or doubt. It came through an ordinary week that my faith was never built to survive.
5 min read →We have trained a generation to recognize God in production and miss Him in the ordinary. Most of the Bible happens on a Tuesday.
7 min read →John 15 doesn't ask you to feel connected. It asks you to stay. Fruit is a byproduct of remaining, not a reward for striving.
6 min read →Both can make you cry in a dark room. Only one is still with you on Thursday. Here are the tests I use now.
5 min read →Weekly messages
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