I don’t know about you, but I’ve spoken a million careless words.

Imagine men and women showing up on that day, judgment day, fully convinced of their own righteousness, their destiny in heaven, only to find out otherwise.

There is literally a mountain of Bible translations along with passionate defenders of each translation—I see you, KJV only brothers! So, what about you?

Worthlessness. Inadequacy. Failure. Overwhelmed. Overstimulated. And numerous other words can be used to describe the “not okay” feeling that you may be feeling. And you know what? It’s okay to feel all of it.

Before we ever comprehend the grace of God, not that we could ever fully comprehend it, we must reckon with the wickedness of man.

This silversmith must sit in front of the fire the entire time the refining process is happening because if he ever takes his eyes off it and leaves the silver in the fire a moment too long, the silver is destroyed.

Granted, the descent into theological liberalism is normally a long and gradual slide into heterodoxy. No denominations or churches wake up and say, “We’re going progressive.”

I only understand the enormity and the beauty of the mountaintop when I have been to the valley.

The fact is, if I was not the pastor's wife, I would have been one of the ones who left.

I concede, it’s hard to be thoughtful when people are cutting off the heads of babies.

Artemis Lanford is lost. Lia Thomas is lost. The others are lost, hopelessly lost apart from Christ and I simply find no prescription in Scripture for hating the lost. Quite the opposite in fact.

I liken beating up on Contemporary Chrisian Music (CCM) to roughing up your little brother. It’s easy, fun, just doesn’t accomplish much, might even get you in trouble.

The believer is freed from the economy of merit, that great and unbearable burden. Do we really think God would then return to an economy of merit within His kingdom?

What I’m talking about is not revival, but revivalism, that is, the incessant pursuit of revival whereby anything other than this is somehow deemed lesser.

Christless masculinity is as meaningful as heteronormative or cisgender or pregnant persons or any of the litany of doublespeak that proliferates and masquerades as reality today.

Maybe what we are seeing is the inevitable failing of a nation founded in the context of the Gospel, as it has abandoned the Gospel.

You cannot mass -produce disciples.

As honorable as serving our great nation is, it’s temporal, transient, and will ultimately be taken away.

Clearly, had Oprah known her Bible…

This must describe the Second Coming of Christ. It just has to.

But, what if it doesn’t?