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- When Heaven Spoke Softly: Luke 1 and the Courage to Believe the Impossible
- When God Refuses to Let Your Calling Stay Hidden
- The Empty Tomb and the Unfinished Sentence
- When Love Survives the Quiet: Why Lonely Hearts Are Still God’s Strongest Witness
- The Silence Between the Cries — What Mark 15 Reveals About the Cost of Love
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There are chapters in the Gospels that feel like a quiet walk beside Jesus, and then there are chapters that feel like the roof is being torn open above your head. Mark 2 belongs to the second kind. Nothing in this chapter stays politely in place. Social norms crack. Religious expectations buckle. Physical barriers are…
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There are lessons being written into our lives long before we ever speak them out loud. They are written in the pauses we allow, the discomfort we swallow, the boundaries we quietly erase in the name of peace. Most of us never set out to teach people how to treat us, yet that is exactly…
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There are moments in Scripture where heaven does not knock politely. It does not send advance notice or wait for cultural permission. It simply arrives. Mark chapter one is one of those moments. There is no warm-up, no genealogy, no poetic overture, no gradual unfolding. Mark opens his Gospel like a door kicked open by…
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There are moments in life when the hardest thing is not pain itself, but what we believe that pain means. Physical pain tells us something is wrong with the body. Emotional pain tells us something is wrong with the heart. But spiritual pain has a way of whispering something far more dangerous. It doesn’t just…
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There are moments in history when a culture moves so quickly that it forgets the quiet wisdom that once guided it. We are living in one of those moments now. Everything is accelerated—opinions, conclusions, labels, outrage, certainty. And in the middle of that speed, children are being asked to carry questions that generations before them…
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There are chapters in Scripture that comfort the heart, and there are chapters that confront the soul. Revelation 19 does both at once, and it does so with a force that refuses to let us remain neutral. This chapter does not whisper hope. It declares it. It does not merely describe the end of evil.…
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There is a moment in life when something you once trusted suddenly goes quiet. The noise stops. The momentum disappears. What felt permanent reveals itself as fragile. Revelation 18 lives inside that moment. It is not written to satisfy curiosity about the end of the world; it is written to expose what the world secretly…
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Revelation 17 is one of those chapters people either rush toward with curiosity or quietly step around with discomfort. It is dramatic, symbolic, unsettling, and intentionally provocative. A woman clothed in luxury, drunk with blood. A beast rising from chaos, carrying her. Kings entangled in her influence. An angel who says, without hesitation, “I will…
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Before anything else is said, it matters to say this clearly and honestly. This reflection is not written to persuade, provoke, or divide. It is written because conscience does not stay silent when faith is alive. There are moments in history when the loudest voices demand allegiance, certainty, and speed, while the quiet voice of…
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There are chapters in Scripture that comfort us, and there are chapters that unsettle us. Revelation 16 is not meant to soothe us to sleep. It is meant to wake us up. This chapter does not whisper. It does not soften its language to spare modern sensibilities. It confronts us with the sobering reality that…