Beyond Dogma: What I’ve Learned About Books That Change Us
I’ve always been a little wary of the phrase religious book. Not because I don’t value faith-based writing, I do, but because the label carries so much baggage. Dense arguments. Heavy certainty. The sense that you’re about to be instructed rather than encountered. For years, I associated religious books with information: doctrines to absorb, positions […]
The Witness of the Holy Spirit: Is This the Missing Key in Your Spiritual Life?
I’ve been thinking a lot about Jesus’ farewell words lately, the ones tucked into the quiet of John 15, spoken on the edge of His departure. He promised a Helper, “the Spirit of truth,” who would bear witness not just to the disciples around Him, but to anyone who would follow Him across the centuries. […]
Beyond the Living Room: How a Home Church Becomes a Place of Revelation
I’ve lost count of how many evenings I’ve spent sitting in someone’s living room, shoes off, Bible balanced on my knee, a mug of something warm cooling too fast on the table, feeling both deeply connected and quietly frustrated. There’s something undeniably beautiful about a home church. The laughter beforehand, the way people settle into […]
What the Bible Has Been Saying All Along About the Purpose of Man
A few months ago, I spread a box of old photographs across my kitchen table. Some were faded Polaroids, others glossy prints with soft, rounded corners, weddings, holidays. Faces I hadn’t thought about in years. Individually, each photo told a small story. But taken together, they felt incomplete. I kept wanting to step back, to […]