Listen to the message Read the article These past few weeks didn’t go the way I planned. I was supposed to be on a two-week vacation from work—an annual shutdown, just time to breathe. But life, as it often does, had other ideas. It started with a text from my […]Read more »
Scripture Reading: John 4:13–15 (KJV) “Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing […]Read more »
There’s a part of me that wrestles with something I’ve come to call Midwest Christianity. Not because it’s exclusive to the Midwest, but because the particular flavor I encounter here tends to emphasize a gospel that stops at salvation—at the foot of the cross—and doesn’t move forward into kingdom living. […]Read more »
I’ve already laid bare the inner tensions—the tug-of-war between gratitude and guilt, simplicity and stewardship, contentment and creative hunger. That tension, that lived-in honesty from part one, isn’t just mental noise. It’s the landscape of a soul trying to walk uprightly before God while navigating real-world desires, gifts, and limitations. […]Read more »