Faithful Writers

Grace doesn’t excuse sin—it empowers victory. Freedom begins when we stop running from God and start walking with Him daily, allowing His Spirit to renew our minds and reshape our desires.

In the midst of darkness, God calls us to stand firm, put on His armor, and live boldly in faith. Now is the time to rise as steadfast warriors in Christ.

The Spirit of God isn’t a dusty doctrine we fight over. The Holy Spirit is a living, pulsing reality. The Spirit flips that script. It’s not about me living like Jesus is beside me; it’s about Christ living His life through me by the Spirit within.

Ever been told that if you truly had God, you’d automatically believe or understand? That’s not how it works. Testing the Spirit is part of God’s plan for discernment and spiritual growth.

The textbook asserts they were only talking about the Old Testament, except 2 Peter 1:21 & Acts 2:38–39 show differently.

Sometimes, doing the right thing means stopping mid-argument and saying, “You’re right.” It means giving up the need to win. Or walking across the room when you’d rather stay in your little safe corner.

As the world continues to get darker, it’s easy to get scared, to want to stay confined to the safety of our bubbles, and to be selfish with our time, effort, and money. But that’s not what we are called to do.

Now, you might be saying, “If you know the tips, how do you fall to the bottom of the well?” Because it’s not magic. We’re all living real life here and — for whatever reasons — I’m sometimes tripped up along the way.

I think more so, my mind should stay fixed on my Savior, the Author and Finisher of my Faith. The beauty of Who He is far more captivating than any of my five senses have beheld, albeit they’ve beheld much.

It’s what makes us morally responsible before God. He gave us a will so that love and obedience could be genuine, not robotic. God doesn’t force obedience — He invites it. The will is where we answer that invitation.

I didn’t walk away from faith — but I did start asking harder questions. And wouldn’t you know it, that’s when something deeper began to grow.

Today, some have tried to surgically separate the teachings of Jesus from those of the disciples. In effect, they eliminate all the New Testament save for the four Gospel stories. Some prefer the teachings of Jesus without the complications the Epistles bring to Christianity.

We’ve built entire sermons around words Jesus never spoke. It’s time we stop preaching a misquote and start living the truth.

There’s something profoundly sacred about folding socks, waiting at stoplights, and fixing dinner for the umpteenth time. These are not wasted moments. They’re invitations. Brother Lawrence, the old monk who found God in doing dishes, once said, “The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer.”

However, there is a qualitative difference in those born of the Holy Spirit and those who pretend to believe and have not received the special anointing mentioned by John. Jesus told his disciples that one of the benefits of receiving the Holy Spirit is that He would teach them and remind them of everything Jesus had taught them.

So, how did we get from there to here? From house churches to $60 million sanctuaries. From martyrs in the arena to pastors with private jets. From “take up your cross” to “God wants you to be rich.”

I ran into this new to me term from an article that blew my mind with what the person was saying about God and miracles. To each their own, but they used the word “christian” to describe themselves, and I do lower case that because this is not Christianity.

This isn’t the kind of life you can fake with a forced smile or spiritual performance. This is the kind of life that seeps out of your pores, even when you’re tired, even when you’re flawed, even when you’re unsure.

That’s the tricky part, right? Because the Spirit doesn’t always show up the way we expect. We want a booming voice, a divine sign, maybe something with flashing lights and a deep Morgan Freeman-esque narration. But more often than not, the Spirit’s help looks like:

My deep and dreaded fear is that the churches have, for so long forsaken the Spirit that the connection to Jesus is broken. The churches now seek comfort in the wrong places because the spiritual bond and level of certainty that God desires for us is gone.

The same people who can quote Psalm 23 without a moments hesitation with a faithful adoration in lip service only are willingly choosing to ignore other Scriptures.

Do we obey the Laws of Moses, do we create our own laws, or do we really know and understand what God requires of us? Such important questions need to be addressed, otherwise, everyone does what is right in their own eyes.

The Bible doesn’t serve to answer every question or fill in the blanks. That job belongs to the Holy Spirit. The purpose of Scripture is to lead us to God. Once we find God, the Holy Spirit is given to continue our training and learning in tandem with the Scriptures.

The church has lost its fire, and adrift with new leaders taking control that are not inspired by God. This causes the flock of believers to get further into the clutches of Satan and his parasites.