Tag: faith
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The Great Mirage: Unmasking the Original Human Illusion
We live in a world obsessed with self-actualization. We are told to “be our own boss,” “manifest our own destiny,” and “live our own truth.” But from a Christian perspective, this mindset isn’t new, modern, or even particularly clever. It is the original trap. In spiritual terms, human illusion isn’t just a simple mistake or…
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The Divine Adjustment
We’ve all experienced that subtle, nagging discomfort when a bone in our back or neck slips slightly out of place. At first, you might try to ignore it. You keep moving, pushing through the day, compensating for the stiffness. But over time, every single movement requires double the energy. You’re constantly fighting friction, fatigue, and…
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The Question That Changes Everything
We’ve all had those moments where the ground beneath us feels like it’s shifting. Maybe it’s a sudden crisis, a painful diagnosis, an exhausting season of caretaking, or just the heavy, quiet realization that a path you’re walking is going to be far steeper than you planned. In those moments, our human instinct kicks in…
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When Everything Is Ripped Away: An Adult on the Spectrum’s Disrupted World
There is a quiet, brutal kind of grief that comes with watching your life get upended by circumstances you didn’t choose. But as hard as it is to navigate your own displacement, it pales in comparison to watching your child absorb the blow. When people hear “autism,” they almost always picture small children. They think…
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The Upside-Down Stop Sign: Breaking the Spell of Autopilot
Think about the last time you drove home from work or took a route you’ve traveled a thousand times before. You pulled into the driveway, turned off the ignition, and suddenly realized you couldn’t remember the last three miles of the drive. Your hands turned the wheel, your foot tapped the brakes at the stop…
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Paul Simon and the Edge of Humanity
There are moments when the fabric of our everyday lives wears thin, and we catch a sudden, breathtaking glimpse of eternity. It might happen while listening to a classic song on the radio. Or it might happen in the quiet of your own home, when a simple, physical question from someone—“Did you feel the house…
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When Love Rewrites Our Labels
We are experts at building walls out of things that were meant to protect us. In the first century, a man named Matthew built a wall out of coins. As a Jewish tax collector working for the Roman Empire, he traded his community, his religious standing, and his family for financial security. The outside world…
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The Geometry of the First Step
There is a quiet, almost unsettling abruptness to the way God moves people. But if we look closer at the stories, we find that the human side of the journey is often much more familiar, messy, and hesitant than we remember. In yesterday’s lectionary readings, we find ourselves standing at two separate crossroads separated by…
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Finding Quiet in a World of Outrage (A Study of Psalm 12)
We’ve all felt it. You open an app for a “quick five-minute break,” and an hour later, you look up, feeling heavy, anxious, and vaguely sick to your stomach. In that hour, your brain was forced to process twenty different narratives: a political scandal, an act of systemic cruelty, a loud-mouthed boast from a multi-millionaire,…
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The Digital Stampede: A Christian Perspective on Social Media Challenges
We’ve all watched it happen. A new song drops, a bizarre stunt catches fire, or a specific aesthetic takes over the internet, and within forty-eight hours, millions of people are replicating the exact same 15-second video. The urge to join the crowd is woven deeply into our psychology. It simplifies a noisy world and offers…
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The Art of Living Upside Down: Why Grace Flips the Rules of Holiness
We live in a culture obsessed with the “if/then” formula. If you work eighty hours a week, then you get the promotion. If you curate the perfect aesthetic, then you get the followers. If you dress the part and clean up your resume, then you get access to the inner circle. It’s a system built…
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No Take-Backs: The Ancient Law That Secures Your Identity Today
We all have family phrases that carry their own weight. In my family, we have a shorthand rule for the moments when someone gets married, or when a child goes to stay with another family member. We look at each other and say, “No take-backs.” It’s our way of saying that the boundary lines have…
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The Internal Highway
Psalm 84:5 (NIV) “Blessed are those whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.” We aren’t meant to settle for the stagnant waters of the familiar. We are meant for the journey. So, when that holy homesickness stirs in your soul today, don’t fight it, and don’t fear the motion of the…
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Why Honesty Must Begin Within
Honesty is a personal journey that must start in the mirror. We often look outward, demanding integrity from the world around us, but we must ask ourselves: How can we expect someone else to be honest when we ourselves are dishonest? This transformation must begin with us individually and extend to the Church as a…
The Anchor Point 