Laughing At Satan
After a year of spiritual battles, I’m beginning to recognize the enemy’s tactics. This week, when another bizarre situation unfolded, I did something unexpected: I laughed at Satan.
After a year of spiritual battles, I’m beginning to recognize the enemy’s tactics. This week, when another bizarre situation unfolded, I did something unexpected: I laughed at Satan.
Inspired by Steve Taylor’s “Jesus Is for Losers,” this personal reflection looks at why Christianity really is for losers, not as an insult, but as the heart of the Gospel. We are all sinners who desperately need the grace and salvation found in Jesus Christ.
Satan is real, demons are real, and spiritual warfare is real, but Satan is not God. Scripture reveals his limitations, his schemes, and the invisible battle around us while showing Christians how to stand firm through truth, faith, Scripture, prayer, and the armor of God.
Sometimes adversity comes in waves. After learning of a friend’s son’s devastating accident and facing continued struggles at work, I’m reminded that we may not understand what God allows, but we can still pray, give thanks, pursue peace, and trust Him through it.
What we believe about God changes how we respond to suffering, uncertainty, injustice, and unanswered prayer. This personal review of Chip Ingram’s God: As He Longs for You to See Him explores seven attributes of God and what they have taught me about trusting His character when I don’t understand His plan.
In Luke 15, the prodigal son returns home expecting judgment, but his father does something extraordinary, he runs to meet him. Inspired by the song “When God Ran,” this reflection explores repentance, grace, forgiveness, and the incredible love of God.
Can you love someone and hate them at the same time? Through David, Absalom, Psalm 55, and my own broken marriage, I wrestle with love, betrayal, anger, compassion, forgiveness, and the danger of allowing hatred to have the final word.
False accusations can damage reputations, relationships, and lives. Chuck Swindoll’s teaching from Job offers powerful biblical lessons about staying calm, speaking truth, trusting God, and refusing to let accusations define you.
Bitterness rarely begins as bitterness. It starts with hurt, anger, betrayal or injustice and slowly tightens its grip. Using Scripture and the imagery of Tourniquet’s “Enveloped in Python,” this article explores the danger of allowing bitterness to take root, and why we must refuse to let it control us.
How long must I be punished? After more than a year separated from my children, stalled reconciliation, and consequences that stretch years into the future, I’m wrestling with injustice, forgiveness, fatherhood, and what it means to trust God while I wait.