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The Day I Rode My Bicycle into the Eye of a Hurricane
There are only a handful of childhood memories that remain crystal clear more than sixty years later. One of mine happened on a September afternoon in 1960, when I was eight years old and living just a block north of the Gulf of Mexico in Biloxi, Mississippi. Our home stood on Father Ryan Avenue, under…
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Faith in the First Chapter: Why We Don’t Need to “Reconcile” Genesis
When we set out to navigate a landscape as vast and ancient as the Bible, we usually look for a fixed point, a North Star or a reliable sonar ping, to tell us where we are. We often assume that the “real” theology starts with the burning bush, the cross, or the empty tomb. But…
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The Radio Signal of the Resistance – Lament in Occupied Territory
We often treat the world as a playground or a classroom, but we rarely treat it as a battlefield. In our modern, sterilized version of spirituality, we are taught to see every tragedy as a "teachable moment" or a hidden blessing. We have been conditioned to believe that if we just have enough faith, the…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how we handle pain in the church. Most of the time, we try to fix it, ignore it, or explain it away with a quick Bible verse. But what if our tears aren't a problem to be solved? What if they're actually part of our job description? This is…
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Why Everyone Is Talking About UAPs and Genesis 6 (And How a Supernatural Worldview Helps)
It’s hard to scroll through a news feed lately without tripping over a headline about UAPs: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. What used to be the fringe obsession of people in tin-foil hats has moved into congressional hearings, Pentagon reports, and serious journalistic inquiries. We’ve gone from “Is anyone out there?” to “They’re here, and we don’t…
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That Could Never Happen to Me
One of the most dangerous assumptions a believer can make is this: “That could never happen to me.” The generation that went into exile probably never imagined they would become the generation that lost Jerusalem, saw the temple destroyed, and were carried away into Babylon. Yet they did. The tragedy is that they weren’t caught…
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Futurist Premillennialism vs. Amillennialism: Why the Future Matters
We often treat the end of the world like a Rorschach test: we look at the strange, swirling inkblots of Revelation and see whatever our theological tradition has trained us to see. For many, the “end times” is a dusty silo, a place where people argue about charts and helicopters while the rest of us…
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Apocalyptic Literature in the Bible: What It Is, What It Is Not, and Why It Matters
Few areas of the Bible are more misunderstood than apocalyptic literature. To a lot of modern readers, these texts feel strange because they are full of symbols, visions, heavenly scenes, and images that do not fit neatly into our ordinary categories. But in the Bible, this kind of writing is not random or meaningless. It…
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The Three Rebellions and Cosmic War
We often treat the Bible as a collection of moral lessons or private devotional material, but the text keeps resisting that tame reduction. What emerges instead is a cosmic conflict, and that’s exactly why ideas like the Deuteronomy 32 Worldview have become so compelling for many of us. Michael S. Heiser helped recover that interpretive…
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Expectant and Grounded: Why I’m an Active Continuationist with a Bible in My Hands
For many of us, the conversation surrounding spiritual gifts feels like a choice between two equally sterile rooms. On one side, we have the cessationist silo: a space where the supernatural has been safely relegated to the first century, locked away in a museum of “apostolic credentials.” It is a tame world, governed by a logic…
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