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When You Cant Control
A reader asked me a simple question yesterday.
The Comment Section Is Not the Book of Life
Dolly Parton professed faith. Tim Curry called himself agnostic. Neither Facebook nor X gets the final word.
Can You Go Just a Little Farther?
who picked your Bible
Nobody voted on it at Nicaea.
it’s not the bottle
The chemical is innocent. The man is running. What he is running from, who gets paid while you never ask, and the way out that still works when the bottle is gone.
Ours, But Not Ours
Dolly Parton kept the same file my world kept on Billy Graham. She never asked to be in it.
THE GROUND THE NEXT ONE GETS BUILT ON
I meant to record this today.
Gossip & Flattery
Equipping women to embrace God's design in a world that's lost its way
twenty-two years between the prayer and the page
I got saved at twelve. I did not read the book until I was thirty-four.
I wrote down the answers I used to fumble
Waffle house, back end of July, plates still on the table.
Homeschool Curriculum Sale:
Will They Rise Up?
How shall they hear?
I published something this morning about an argument I almost joined and a door nobody is guarding.
whosoever
It is just before eight on a Sunday morning and I have been reading an argument about who Christ died for.
The Women Who Said—“I am.”
Tolerated
I kept a list.
Despised
I have a memory from when I was six, maybe seven.
Most believers cannot list what they believe
Most believers cannot list what they believe.
Twelve Plain Lessons
You got saved.
Jesus Went Down. He Did Not Come Up Alone.
Abraham’s Bosom, the spirits in prison, and the saints who walked into Jerusalem after His resurrection.
What Are You Carrying That God Never Handed You?
The Body Without Breath
The 2008 clone tape said they can think and act but have no soul. The 2026 patents got closer than the tape ever did.
The Lost Art of Talking to Yourself
Equipping women to embrace God's design in a world that's lost its way
He Drew From the Pit
Sparky put Luke 2 in front of sixty million homes. Years later he told an interviewer he didn't go to church anymore.
The Monster We Need.
Everybody is sure about her. Nobody is looking at us.
“With Her Hands: Part Six”
Part Six: Pouring
Adam Was Standing Right There
Genesis 3:6 has two words everyone skips. Go look.
Sex Isn't Recreation. It's Creation.
Abortion doesn't start at the clinic.
Wash, Rinse, Repeat: And the Mercy That Meets Me Again
Equipping women to embrace God's design in a world that's lost its way
Strange Question for you
You can know the walking-on-water story by heart and still miss the sentence Mark uses to explain their amazement.
The Giant Was Just the First Time Anybody Saw
The lion and the bear came first. Nobody was watching.
“With Her Hands: Part 5”
Part Five: Opening
Thank You, Substack. You Helped Me Stay at the Table.
The work was supposed to serve the family, not make me absent from it.
Jesus Has a Number
It is not 666. And the people selling you angel numbers do not want you to count it.
the thief got in
Die Ready, Part IV.
“With Her Hands: Part 4”
Part Four: Planting
the bread of sorrows
For years I worked seventy-hour weeks across two and three jobs, and I called it what a provider does.
With Her Hands: Part 3”
Part three: Pointing
The Prayer Is Not Magic. The Fruit Is Not the Price
What a child must understand, why repeating words is not salvation, and why righteous fruit cannot become the price of grace.
“With Her Hands: Part 2”
Part two: Swiping
“With Her Hands: Part 1”
Part One: Scrolling
Some People Would Rather Be Punished Than Known
Jacob was one of them. Two blessings, one lie, and the question God asked in the mud at Jabbok.
My New Job Description
I wrote a note this past weekend regarding my “new job description” now that I have married kids.
Proverbs 28:13 Does Not Stop at Confession
Covering, confessing, forsaking, mercy. The distinction matters.
The Verse That Fell Out of Acts 8
Most new Bibles go from verse 36 straight to verse 38. Go look.
It’s Almost Here:
An Update on The Things We Hath Wrought
The Map of the Dead, So Far
Two pins are in. The third goes in tomorrow night. You pick the fourth.
The Remnants of the Curse: When Love Reaches for Control
Part Two
Abraham's Bosom Was Not Heaven
Three days of open graves. A reader asked where the bodies were in the meantime. Luke 16 gives you the address.
Owning Our Burdens:
The Graves Opened on Friday. Nobody Walked Out Until Sunday.
Matthew 27:52 is sitting in the middle of the crucifixion account. You have read past it your whole life.
What Your Adult Children May Need From You:
Equipping women to embrace God's design in a world that's lost its way
The Father Wound and A Faithful God
Jerusalem Was Making Them
Archaeologists just found the mold. Jeremiah already told you who was standing in the kitchen.
Nobody is standing over the fire
A machine rendered hell in seventeen seconds. Four of the six things on that screen are in your King James. The two it invented are the two you already believed.
The lamb was never anointed
What's buried next to Jude 14?
A million and a half people just watched a man explain where the giants went. He was selling a book. Your Bible quotes that book exactly once.
The Flood Did Not Miss Anyone
Genesis 14:5 is sitting in your King James. Almost nobody reads it out loud.
The Ones the Water Missed
The flood killed everything that breathed. Moses counted giants on the far side of it.
The Light at the End of the Tunnel Has a Verse
Sixty thousand people just watched a video that says the light is a trap. They are half right.