faith

The Kind That Holds

Real love is not the spark—it’s the slow-burned timberstacked by hand,one quiet choice at a time,until winter’s breathcan’t put it out.It’s the irony of a flamethat doesn’t boast,yet warms everything within reach. It is less like a roseand more like the soil—dark, unnoticed,and willing to cradle the rootsso something else can bloom.It’s the long patienceof…
When Trust Walks Ahead of Evidence

There’s something sacred about sitting beside a fire and talking honestly about the kind of love that doesn’t make headlines—the kind shown not in poetic declarations, but in everyday decisions that cost us something. And as I’ve been thinking about that quiet, faithful love, another intertwined theme keeps rising to the surface: trust. Not the…
When the Table Has Empty Chairs

There’s a certain stillness that settles into this season for many people—something deeper than cold weather and shorter days. It’s the quiet ache of empty chairs, unanswered phone calls, strained relationships, or miles that feel longer than they appear on any map. It’s the heaviness of knowing that someone who once laughed beside you won’t…
Where the Empty Places Shine

There are distances the map can’t measure— those long, invisible miles between one heartbeat and another. Sometimes they open like canyons cut by disappointment, sometimes like frost on a window no one meant to close. Illness can hush a room, silencing the familiar footsteps; discord can turn a family tree into winter branches, each twig…
The Discipline of Discipleship: Learning to Run With Purpose

If you could sit across from Paul for a quiet conversation and ask, “What does it really mean to follow Jesus?” I suspect he wouldn’t only talk about faith and grace—he’d also talk about training. He’d point to the race, the fight, the lifelong discipline that shapes a disciple. “I therefore so run, not as…
When God Teaches a Proud Heart to Bow: A Study in Daniel 4

There is a reason Daniel 4 reads like no other chapter in Scripture. It is the testimony of a once-pagan king who learned—through a long, humiliating wilderness—that the Most High truly reigns. His own words summarize the lesson: “those that walk in pride he is able to abase” (Daniel 4:37). If the great monarch of…
Seven Ways God Quietly Grows Your Faith

Scripture says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). Faith isn’t a spiritual accessory; it’s the channel through which we receive everything Heaven longs to give. Without it, we are stuck outside the door of God’s promises. The Bible is very…
Thanksgiving and the Sacrifice of Gratitude

If you look around this time of year, it almost feels like Thanksgiving is getting smaller. Store shelves leap from skeletons to snowmen, from cobwebs to candy canes, and somewhere in the middle there’s this quiet little day about gratitude that can easily get squeezed out. No costumes, no glittering lights, no marketing mascot to…
The Real Dilemma of Our Age—And the Hope That Still Holds Us

People today live with a strange mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar. The old landmarks of human experience still stand—birth, love, loss, joy, sorrow, choices, and consequences. These things have shaped every generation since Adam drew his first breath. “There is no new thing under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9), and in many ways the…
Fitly Spoken: Learning the Language of Grace

Scripture Focus: Proverbs 25:11“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” Have you ever had one of those days when you replay a conversation in your mind and think, Why did I say it like that? It might’ve been a sharp reply to a family member, a sigh that sounded…