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The Wind Still Blows
There are moments in Scripture that feel less like historyand more like a mirror. Pentecost is one of them. Not because it’s safe.Not because it’s polished.But because it’s disruptive. The followers of Jesus are huddled in an upper room.Fearful. Confused. Waiting. Jesus had ascended.Rome was still Rome.The religious machine was still grinding people into dust.The empire still flexed its…
The Slow Violence of Division
Reflecting on Proverbs 6:16-19 There are things that fracture the soul.Things that unravel a people from the inside out.Not all at once.Usually slowly. Quietly. Like rot beneath the floorboards of a house that still looks beautiful from the street. And Proverbs says God hates these things. Not because God is angry in the fragile, explosive way humans are angry.Not because God is easily…
When Stones Fall
A Reflection on Matthew 24 and the end of certainty The disciples were staring at the stones. Massive stones. Temple stones. The kind of stones people build their certainty on. For centuries this temple had stood as the center of Israel’s world…the place where heaven touched earth. It felt immovable. Permanent. Sacred. And then Jesus says something that must have stopped them cold: “Not one…
Love Is The Line
A meditation on Romans 13 Romans 13 has been used like a muzzle.A spiritual duct tape slapped over mouths.“Submit,” they say.“Be quiet,” they say.“God put them there,” they say. But Paul doesn’t end the chapter there. He lands it here: “Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”~Romans 13:10 That’s the line.Love. Not authority.Not power.Not empire.Not…
He Waited. And He Didn’t Miss It.
A Meditation on Luke 2:22-35 Simeon was old. Not old like tired.Old like seasoned.Old like someone who had learned how to wait without going numb. Scripture says he was righteous and devout.Which is another way of saying: he stayed faithful when the story felt slow. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel.Waiting for God to make things right.Waiting for the ache to ease.Waiting for hope…
A Lament for a Nation Unmoored
There is blood on the ground again.A young woman in North Carolina,who fled one war only to be swallowed by another …stabbed on a train,her story cut short before she even had a chance to write it. A congresswoman in Minnesota and her husband,executed in the quiet of their own home …a sanctuary turned into a grave. Children in a school,their laughter silenced by gunfire. And a man … Charlie…
The Dust That Dances
A Meditation on Ezekiel 37 There’s a valley.You know this valley. Not because you’ve walked through Ezekiel’s vision,but because you’ve walked through your own.The valley where hope has been buried.Where the laughter has long stopped echoing.Where the bones … your bones … lie scattered,bleached by time, brittle with disappointment. It’s that place where the dream died,the relationship…
Scars Over Swords
A Meditation on Revelation 6 The seals are breaking.One after another.And the world …our world …comes undone. A white horse rides.Conquest.Victory at the expense of peace. A red horse rides.War.Blood staining the soil. A black horse rides.Greed.Bread for the rich, famine for the poor. And then …the pale horse.Death.Followed by Hades.The shadow we all fear. Do you see it?It’s not just…
The Knock at the Edge of Everything
a meditation on Revelation 3 It’s late.And the world feels weary again.Letters are being written, messages whispered to flickering lamps in seven churches. Echoes of divine warnings and promises swirl like incense through thin spaces. And in Revelation 3,the curtain pulls back… Laodicea, lukewarm.Philadelphia, faithful.Sardis, asleep.Each one invited into something deeper.Each one addressed…
Dirty Hands, Holy Ground
A meditation on Luke 10:25–37 So there’s this lawyer.A Torah expert.A person who knows the law inside and out…Knows what’s written.But isn’t quite sure how to live it. “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”It’s the question beneath all the questions.How do I really live?What does it mean to be alive in the way God intended? And Jesus, in classic Jesus form,Doesn’t answer.He tosses…
Justice. Mercy. Humility
A meditation on Micah 6:8 in the age of air-raid sirens and culture wars there’s a dull thud in the distancebut the tremor reaches our screens in real time Khan Younis… 70 people fall while waiting for flour Gaza’s toll climbs past 55,000 names no algorithm can pronounce meanwhile war planners debate bunker-busters for Tehranand reporters chart which U.S. bases are close enough to launch the…
Letters From The Edge
A Meditation on Revelation 2 What do you say to a church that’s lost its love? What do you say to a people who are doing all the right things… working hard, enduring suffering, spotting false teachers from a mile away… but their hearts have gone numb? You say Revelation 2. You say… remember. There’s this moment, in the letter to the church in Ephesus, where the resurrected Jesus says: “Yet…
EXILE
And other places God shows up. [A meditation on Revelation 1] the island there’s an old man on an islandand he’s alonereally alonethe kind of alone that makes you wonder if anyone remembers your name patmos.rocky.isolated.the roman empire’s way of sayingwe don’t want to hear from you anymore but here’s the thing about exile…sometimes it’s exactly where heavendecidesto show up. sunday…
What If You're The Treasure?
A Meditation on Matthew 13:44-46 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. 45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. 46 When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.” Jesus says,the kingdom of…
The Scroll and the Lamb
A Meditation on Revelation 5 There’s a scroll. It’s sealed.Seven seals deep.In other words…completely locked, untouchable, unknowable. This scroll holds the story.The meaning.The healing.The justice.The redemption.The unraveling of everything that’s wrongand the unveiling of what is right. And the question is:Who is worthy to open it? And the room gets still.All of heaven holds its…
Tables, Wine, and the Wild God
A meditation on John 2 There’s a wedding.There’s a feast.There’s a crisis.There’s a God who saves the best wine for last. John 2 isn’t just a story.It’s a sign.A disruption.A whisper.A shout. The wedding at Cana is where the divine touches the mundane, where water, ordinary and utilitarian, is transfigured into celebration.Into joy.Into the best wine they’ve ever tasted. Which says something,…
When the noise breaks, the Voice speaks
A Journey Through Psalm 34 (included at the end) There’s something sacred about being undone. Not in the way the world talks about coming undone…like a meltdown or a failure or a moment where everything spirals out of control. No, I’m talking about the kind of undoing where all the noise finally drops, where your white-knuckled grip on trying to manage everything loosens just long enough for…