The Tension Where Truth Lives

Philippians 3:13–14 (KJV) There’s something honest about Paul in Philippians 3. He doesn’t write like a man who has mastered life.He writes like someone still moving. “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended…” In other words — I’m not there yet. That line alone releases pressure. Spiritual maturity is not arrival.It’s direction. And Paul…

Today’s Blog “A righteous man falls seven times and rises again…” — Proverbs 24:16 Let’s tell the truth. The verse does not say the righteous man never falls. It says he rises. Falling is not proof that you are disqualified. It is proof that you are human. The difference is not perfection. The difference is…

The African-American church was never just a place to worship.It was born out of necessity, sustained by faith, and forged under pressure. Long before it had steeples or stained glass, the Black church existed as a gathering of people who were denied dignity everywhere else. When laws dehumanized, when systems excluded, when voices were silenced—the…

There is a tension many of us live in but rarely name… We want God…We want His promises…We want His power… And we want them without pain. Not because we’re shallow…Not because we’re faithless…But because we’re human… We don’t always get to choose what we want. We would rather have: That doesn’t make us weak…It…

There’s a tension I’m sitting with today…and I don’t want to rush past it…explain it away…or spiritualize myself out of it. I’m a preacher.And there’s a part of me—an older reflex—that believes silence is failure. For years, I treated every crisis as my responsibilityand every moment as my assignment. I reached for Scripture—How can they…

There is something humbling about a lump of clay. It isn’t impressive. It isn’t finished. It doesn’t resemble anything useful yet. It’s just… there. But the potter doesn’t reject it for what it lacks. He chooses it because of what it can become. Most of us assume God begins with vessels. Scripture says He begins…

Before I say anything theological…before I say anything polished…I need to say something personal. There was a season in my life when I didn’t believe I would ever preach again. I had already been preaching for nearly twenty years. I started young—seventeen, maybe eighteen. Ministry wasn’t something I stepped into; it shaped my entire sense…

What Reading Has Taught Me About Growth I want to be transparent for a moment… just talk for a second. I’ve been preaching and teaching God’s Word for a long time. And over the years, my life has shifted—not because my calling changed, but because my understanding of the fullness of God’s call has deepened.…