“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, love, and sound judgment. So don’t be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me his prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.” - 2 Timothy 1:7-8 (CSB)Fear is a funny thing, isn’t it? It doesn’t always show up in big, obvious ways. Sometimes it’s subtle. You hesitate before speaking up. Yo...  Read More

Acts 1:8 - "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses… to the ends of the earth."You want to know why religious people got so mad at Jesus? Because He loved the wrong people. Over and over, you see Him hanging out with the people everyone else avoided—the unclean, the outsiders, the morally sketchy. In Mark 2, He calls Levi (Matthew), a tax collecto...  Read More

Matthew 28:19 - "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."One of the most dangerous things in the church today is the idea that following Jesus is primarily about consumption. We read the books, listen to the podcasts, and sit in the pews, but we never actually get in the game.But listen—Jesus never called you t...  Read More

Luke 19:10 - “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”Here’s what I love about Jesus: He goes after people no one else would bother with. He’s not put off by their mess. In Luke 19, we meet Zacchaeus—a wealthy tax collector who’d made his living by robbing his own people. Now, let’s be honest: this guy wasn’t just unpopular—he was despised. He was the guy you avoid at the grocery sto...  Read More

We tend to think of eternal life as something that begins when we die. But Jesus flips that thinking upside down: eternal life is knowing God, right now. It’s not some distant reality we only experience when we take our last breath; it’s something that is fully available to us today, right in this moment.  Read More

Paul had everything: Credentials, status, success. All the stuff that everyone in his day would’ve said, “That guy has it all.” But here's the twist: Paul realized that all of it was nothing. Absolutely nothing, when compared to knowing Christ. You know what he’s saying? He’s saying, “I had it all, and yet I found it to be worthless next to the glory of knowing Jesus."  Read More