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When It Looks Like Losing Philippians 1:3–30 There is a particular kind of grief that comes not from losing something, but from watching something you love appear to lose. The Philippians knew it. They had given Paul their money, their messenger, their prayers, their hearts. And what did they have to show for it? A letter with a return address of prison. If you had loved the work of the gospel as they loved it, you would have asked the question they were surely asking. Is i

No Still Water Revelation 22:1–5 Leave anything alone long enough and it comes apart. The coffee goes cold while you mean to drink it. The garden you stop tending fills with weeds you never planted. An empty house will not hold its line; it sags, settles, gives its heat back to the cold around it. Nothing in this world keeps its shape on its own. And the strange part is how much of that coming-apart feels like nothing at all. It feels like standing still. I bring it up beca

James 1:2-4

There are two roads.