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Accessing the Divine Through Transcendence—Without Losing the Gospel There’s a reason a sailing ship at sea feels “spiritual” to so many of us. Alone on open water, under a sky that looks endless, you feel it: smallness, wonder, vulnerability, longing. The horizon is both invitation and warning. It calls you forward, but it also reminds you you’re not in control. That’s the pull of transcendence—the sense that reality is bigger…
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There are verses in Scripture that are easy to confess and harder to inhabit.Acts 2:38 has become one of those verses for me. “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” I don’t struggle to believe this verse is true.I struggle to understand how fully I have received what…
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It’s funny to imagine myself on my ship in a lounge with the Holy Spirit, discussing what martyrdom looks like for me in honor of the King—pipe in hand, coffee on the table—like we’re planning some noble saga together. It doesn’t feel enough to suffer as I am—not that I would wish disaster, disease, cancer, homelessness, familylessness, or godlessness upon myself. It’s just difficult to accept an “abundant life” while…
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Whether you see it or not, we are sitting in fire. Everything around us is caught in a flame, yet… it is not consumed. As I look around the space I occupy—this laptop, desk, the chair I sit in, my coffee, the books to my right, a lamp, and a small monument on my desk that reads “PRAY FIRST,” more books on the mantel beneath the TV, our dog Rocky…
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Who are you? As you and I see each other off in the distance, who are you? I say to myself as I process a series of decisions on whether our encounter will be… friendly. There you are — from across the expanse — on the vessel of your soul. A stranger. But not just any stranger. One with eternal weight. One with a destination. If our souls brush past…
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“For in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.”— 2 Peter 1:11 (NASB 1995) As I consider where my life stands today, and as I peer out into the distance of what lies ahead, this verse confronts me—not as reassurance, but as a summons. Peter does not offer this promise in isolation; I know this because his…
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I’ve sat down—hands to board, fingers to keys—only to meet silence. Not the kind that invites stillness, but the kind that resists movement. I suppose it’s obvious by now: there’s been no post. I have the framework for continuing in Acts. It’s solid. Structured. Faithful. And I still plan to use it. But right now, I long for something else. Not just exposition. Not just discipline. But transformation—holy change. A…
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TIME FOR PROVIDENCE 