When You Don’t Know How to Pray, Pray Anyway
Prayer is not a last resort. It is a connection. When you do not know what to say, God is still listening, and you do not have to have it all figured out to pray.
Prayer is not a last resort. It is a connection. When you do not know what to say, God is still listening, and you do not have to have it all figured out to pray.
Divorce is one of the hardest topics Christians face. What does Scripture actually teach about marriage, covenant, and broken relationships? A biblical look at God’s design, grace, and hope. (Part 1 of 3)
Pornography and lust affect far more than our screens, they shape our hearts. Discover what Scripture teaches about purity, accountability, renewing your mind, and finding lasting freedom through Jesus Christ.
Sometimes the slowdown is not the setback we think it is. Maybe God is not holding us back. Maybe He is holding us together.
What does the Bible mean when it says love keeps no record of wrongs? Learn how forgiveness frees us from bitterness, heals wounded hearts, and deepens our walk with Christ, even in seasons of profound loss.
Sometimes the struggle does not disappear as quickly as we prayed it would. But that does not mean God is absent. He may be working in the middle of it.
Can a genuine Christian fall into serious sin? Scripture shows that believers can stumble, wander, and experience painful consequences. Through the stories of David and a personal testimony of restoration after rock bottom, this article explores God’s loving discipline, the danger of unrepentant sin, and the hope found in repentance and God’s transforming grace.
Anger is one of the most misunderstood emotions in the Christian life. Many assume that feeling angry automatically means they are an angry person, but the Bible paints a much different picture. Drawing from Scripture, personal experience, Edward Welch, and June Hunt, this article explores the different types of anger, the deeper issues beneath it, and how Christ transforms anger into patience, wisdom, and peace.
Sometimes being right can make us blind to what is happening in our own heart. This post looks at pride, truth, humility, and why a clean heart matters more than winning the argument.
Not every voice deserves a seat at the table. Some bring wisdom. Some bring noise. Some bring peace. Some bring gasoline. Learn how to guard what God is rebuilding.
Christians are called to seek wise counsel, but there is a difference between pursuing wisdom and pursuing validation. Through Scripture and personal experience, this article explores how believers can discern godly advice, avoid unhealthy dependence on human approval, and ultimately trust God as their source of wisdom.
Not every opinion needs a response. Not every argument needs your energy. And not every bit of noise around you is something God asked you to carry. This post is about learning to protect the peace God is building in you.
When my life fell apart, I lost friends, my reputation, and even my freedom. Yet through wise counselors, unexpected friendships in jail, and a deeper understanding of Christ’s suffering, God transformed my heart and taught me compassion for the broken.
How do Christians process grief, loss, and unanswered prayers? In this personal review of Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy by Mark Vroegop, I share how learning the biblical practice of lament transformed my faith and connected me with a community of believers walking through suffering together.
Have you ever felt broken beyond repair? This is a raw, honest testimony about losing a father at 12, surviving a widow maker heart attack, and how God kept putting me back together every time I fell apart. Turning 55 and still standing — not because of luck, but because of grace.
Few things have been more painful in my life than discovering that people were spreading lies about me behind my back. I’ve learned that when someone attacks your character publicly, there is often very little you can do to immediately repair the damage. Words travel fast. Rumors spread quickly. Once a narrative is created, many people accept it as truth without ever asking questions or seeking facts.
Forgiveness does not care what gender you are. This post reflects on pride, pain, bitterness, healing, and learning to release old wounds through the grace and blood of Christ.
“What is love? Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me no more.”
Anybody remember that hit from the ’90s?
For many of us, it instantly brings back memories of the famous Saturday Night Live sketches featuring the Roxbury brothers, cruising from nightclub to nightclub, bobbing their heads to the beat, getting into awkward situations, and inevitably being thrown out of wherever they ended up.
I didn’t know how much noise I was carrying until God started teaching me to enjoy quiet. This post is about prayer, peace, answered prayers, and learning to make room for God in ordinary moments.
You can be thankful and tired at the same time. This post is about faith in hard seasons, healing, family tension, grandchildren, prayer, and the small reminders God sends before we even know we need them.
I’ve been in love three times in my life: once in high school, once in college, and later with my wife. Today I want to revisit that first love, the one that shattered me in high school.
Sometimes the hardest person to get past is yourself. This post is about pride, surrender, family, grace, and learning to stop waiting for rock bottom before finally letting God lead.
I never imagined I would find myself at rock bottom—a lowly, contrite, broken man with seemingly nothing left to lose. Well… almost nothing. I still have my health, and my old CR-V is somehow still hanging on. Lately, I’ve found myself praying often for both, asking God to protect me and keep that old Honda running a little longer…
Half the truth can do real damage. This post is about gossip, assumptions, judgment, and why Christians must slow down, pray, seek truth, and extend grace before speaking on someone else’s life.
Envy rarely looks the way people think it does. Sometimes it shows up as distance, resentment, tension, and emotional walls that slowly spread through an entire family. This post is a hard but honest look at jealousy, unresolved hurt, and the damage bitterness can do when it’s left unchecked — especially to the children and grandchildren caught in the middle.
The same parable can hit differently depending on the season you’re in. Scripture doesn’t change, but life has a way of changing how deeply we hear it. Sometimes God uses a story we’ve heard a hundred times to show us something brand new about our own heart.
Grandchildren have a way of breaking through every wall we’ve built. Their love, trust, joy, and need for us can quietly teach us something powerful about the heart of God.
Biblical truth was never meant to stay on the page. Real faith shows up in the seconds between what happens to us and how we respond. This post is about learning to live Scripture in everyday life, not just read it.
The world doesn’t need more Sunday Christians. It needs believers who live their faith with love, grace, humility, and integrity every day of the week.
Some people talk about their faith. Annita lives hers. She walks into a room and makes everyone feel seen, loves her grandchildren without reservation, and carries her family through hard seasons with a grace and strength that leaves me speechless. On this Mother’s Day, I just want the world to know — I am the most blessed of all.
Letter to my children, I’m not good at saying these things out loud, so I’m writing them down. To my kids and grandkids: you are my legacy, my prayer, and the reason I keep showing up.
You forgave them. At least you thought you did. But some wounds don’t stay buried quietly, and forgiveness is rarely as simple as people make it sound.
I prayed for patience. God didn’t hand it to me — He built it into me one humbling moment at a time. Here’s what that looked like.
Real strength isn’t always loud. Sometimes it looks like quietly carrying everyone else while fighting battles nobody sees.
Strong men get tired too. This post is about carrying responsibility, family pressure, work, health, pride, and learning to bring the real weight to God instead of pretending you are fine.
You have been through things that should have broken you. Maybe they almost did. But you are still here, still showing up, still carrying what needs to be carried. Before you move on to what is next, stop for a second and understand what that actually means.
They moved on like nothing happened. Meanwhile you’re still carrying the weight of what they did.
Leading a family spiritually sounds strong until you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and quietly wondering if you’re failing everyone depending on you.
There comes a moment when you realize nobody is coming to rescue you. And strangely enough, that’s where growth finally begins.
Some seasons hit so hard and so fast that it feels like everything is falling apart at once. That’s when you find out what you’re truly anchored to.