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;…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
An invitation to see Jesus not as the political liberator we expected, but as the risen Lord who inaugurates His kingdom through Spirit‑empowered witness. Acts 1:6–8 So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this…