Douglas Vandergraph Faith Ministry from YouTube

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  • There are books in the Bible that feel like long conversations and then there are books that feel like someone grabbed you by the shoulders and looked you straight in the eyes. Jude is that kind of book. It is short, urgent, unflinching, and strangely loving at the same time. It is the kind of…

  • There are moments in Scripture that whisper rather than shout, and yet somehow, they shape more leaders, heal more wounds, and reveal more truth than entire books of thunderous prophecy. Third John is one of those moments. It is the smallest book in the New Testament, a single chapter that many people have never read…

  • There are moments in history when the weight of the world feels heavier than it ever has before. You can feel it in the news. You can feel it in the way people speak to each other. You can feel it in the quiet exhaustion that so many carry even when nothing is being said.…

  • There are books in the Bible that feel like conversations whispered across a kitchen table late at night, where the stakes are too high for small talk and the words matter too much to be rushed. Second John is one of those. It is short, almost startlingly brief, but it carries a weight that far…

  • There is something almost unsettling about how calmly 1 John 5 speaks into a world that feels like it is constantly shouting. It does not argue. It does not posture. It does not try to impress. It simply states truths so large that if you let them sink in, they rearrange the way you see…

  • There are moments in life when the word love feels almost too small for what we are actually craving. We use it for pizza, for movies, for hobbies, for convenience, and then we try to use the same word to describe the deepest longing of the human soul. When John wrote the words that became…

  • There are moments in life that do not announce themselves. They do not arrive with fireworks, music, or grand declarations. They slip in quietly, disguised as ordinary minutes, unnoticed conversations, or a simple pause between one obligation and the next. And yet, these moments often hold more power than the ones we plan for. They…

  • There is a quiet exhaustion that settles into the soul when a person spends too many years trying to be acceptable instead of truthful. It doesn’t arrive all at once. It builds slowly, decision by decision, compromise by compromise, until one day you realize you are tired in a way rest cannot fix. You are…

  • There are passages of Scripture that feel gentle when you first read them, almost pastoral in tone, and then, as you sit with them longer, you realize they are quietly rearranging the furniture of your heart. First John chapter two is one of those passages. It does not shout. It does not posture. It does…

  • The opening lines of First John do not ease us into belief; they confront us with it. There is no soft introduction, no abstract theology meant to be admired from a distance. Instead, the text insists on something tangible, something that disrupts comfort. What was from the beginning, what was heard, what was seen with…