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Job's friends got it exactly right for seven days. Then one of them opened his mouth. There is a kind of help that requires no words at all — and most of us are bad at it.

The Bible Behind "I Have a Dream": Reflections at 63 Years

Greater Than Ourselves: The Place You Didn't Choose

Paul wrote Colossians from a prison cell, and he never once prayed to get out. What he prayed for instead changes how you look at the life you are actually living.

If God Is Sovereign, Are Our Choices Real?

Holding God's sovereignty and human responsibility together with biblical conviction and Christian humility.

Washing Up the Plates: Why God Cares About Your Monday

Most of your life is not spent doing anything memorable. A seventeenth-century monk who washed dishes for a living had an answer for that — and so does Colossians 3.

Greater Than Our Relationships: What Actually Changes When Jesus Is at the Center

Every generation invents a new way to build a marriage, raise a child, and survive a job — and each one collapses. Colossians 3:18-4:1 on the household that flourishes because Christ, not the people in it, is at the center.

I Can't Remember the Day I Got Saved. Does That Count?

Some people have a Damascus road. Some grew up in church and cannot name a single day. Colossians 3:3-4 on why the drama of your story was never the thing that saved you.

Greater Than Our Old Life: Why You Can't Stop Sinning by Trying Harder

You already agree with the list of things that need to go. So why can't you kill them? A walk through Colossians 3:1-17 on why sin is not a flaw to fix but a death to be raised from.

Greater Than Your Religion: Why Trying Harder Never Made Anyone Holy

Religion hands you a list. Paul says the list has no power to change you. A walk through Colossians 2:16-23 on why holiness is not something you achieve, but something that grows out of holding fast to Christ.

When God Doesn't Answer "Why"

Job never got an explanation. He got something better — God Himself. Reflections from the final Bible study of a deployment, and what it means to trust when the answers never come.

Abounding in Thanksgiving: Why Gratitude Is Not a Personality Type

Paul slips four words into the middle of a warning about false teaching — abounding in thanksgiving. It turns out gratitude is not a mood you are born with. It is a conclusion you reach.

Greater Than Every False Hope: What It Means to Be Complete in Christ

Paul told a young church they were already complete in Christ. So why do empty philosophies, religious rituals, and human traditions still sound so persuasive? A walk through Colossians 2:6-15.