You Can Follow Jesus Without a Church. You Just Won’t Do It Well.
Church attendance doesn’t save you. But you weren’t built to follow Jesus alone either. What one sentence from my ten-year-old daughter taught me about why we need each other.
Church attendance doesn’t save you. But you weren’t built to follow Jesus alone either. What one sentence from my ten-year-old daughter taught me about why we need each other.
A woman I’d never met went looking for the man who mentored a boy twenty years ago. She found him — and found her way back to church along the way. Part two of a story about unknowing influence.
A stranger’s Facebook message about the wrong Mike Davis made me realize you never know which moment in your life someone else is still holding onto.
I used to think answered prayer would announce itself — clear, unmistakable, dramatic. Looking back, I nearly missed the biggest answer of my life because it never came as a bolt of lightning. It came as a chain — one quiet answer setting off ten more.
I never told her what she did. Sixteen years later, I still haven’t. She was about ten, and one sentence she said in the car changed the direction of my life — even though she has no idea it did.
I wear a Scripture bracelet every day, and I still struggle to read my Bible consistently. If that’s you too, here’s where I’d start — and why forgetting what you read doesn’t mean it didn’t work.
Today I’m going to walk into a room, out in the open, and worship God. Somewhere else in the world, that same act can get someone imprisoned, kidnapped, or killed. On America’s 250th, that’s worth sitting with before the fireworks start.
Faith was never meant to stay inside a church building. Real faith follows us into the waiting, the struggle, the anger, the grief, the temptation, and the slow healing.
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.
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.