“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” — Proverbs 3:5–6 I have been writing this newsletter for a while now. And every week I sit down and pour everything I have into these words because I genuinely believe that what I write matters that somewhere on the other side of these words is a real person who needs to hear something specific. But today I want to do something

“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” — Jeremiah 33:3 I want to tell you something I don’t share often. There was a season in my life where I was doing all the right things on the outside and completely falling apart on the inside. Going to church. Saying the right words. Checking the boxes. Looking like someone who had their faith together while privately wondering if any of it was real. I was exhausted from the perfor

Scripture: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” — Psalm 147:3 I want to show you something this morning that I think will change the way you see the broken places in your life. God has a pattern. It runs from Genesis to Revelation and it never changes. And once you see it you cannot unsee it. The pattern is this: God does not wait for things to be fixed before He uses them. He does His greatest work through the broken ones. Not in spite of the brokenness. T

Scripture: “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” — 2 Timothy 3:16 The Bible has over 31,000 verses. And if you’ve been walking with God for any amount of time you know that certain ones stop being words on a page and become something more like anchors. The verses you reach for in the dark. The ones that show up exactly when you need them. The ones that have become load-bearing walls in the structure of

I want to start this morning with a question that might be the most important question I ask all year. Is what you’re calling faith actually faith or is it wishful thinking with a Bible verse attached? Because here is what I have seen in my years of ministry. People who are devastated when prayers don’t get answered the way they expected. People who feel betrayed by God when the healing didn’t come, the relationship didn’t restore, the financial breakthrough didn’t arrive on

But where sin increased, grace increased all the more.” — Romans 5:20 Opening I want to start this morning by saying something that might make some of you uncomfortable. Grace is bigger than you think it is. Not slightly bigger. Not a little more generous than you’ve given it credit for. Immeasurably, extravagantly, almost offensively bigger than the version most of us have been living under. Because here is what I’ve noticed in twenty years of ministry. Most Christians belie

“Then he said to them all: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.’” — Luke 9:23 Opening I want to talk this morning about one of the most misunderstood words in the Christian life: Surrender. In our culture surrender is weakness. It is what you do when you have lost. When you have run out of options. When the fight is over and you have nothing left. We do not celebrate surrender. We celebrate perseverance, strength,

Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” — Psalm 23:4 Opening I want to start this morning with a question. How many of you have ever been in a season so dark you weren’t sure God was still there? You don’t have to raise your hand. But I want you to think about it. Because I believe there are people who love God, people who have been walking with Him for years who have been through some

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” — 2 Corinthians 5:17 Is there a genuine change in your life a healing, a growth, a becoming that the people around you haven’t acknowledged? Are you still being defined by who you were rather than who you are becoming? There is a specific kind of invisible that nobody talks about. Not the invisibility of being overlooked or undervalued that one gets acknowledged. This is the invi

One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty." — Proverbs 11:24 What are you holding so tightly right now that you would struggle to release if God asked you to? Nobody preaches this sin. Not because it isn’t in the Bible it is, all over the Bible. But because it is one of those sins that feels like wisdom. Like responsibility. Like the mature, realistic, I’ve-been-through-enough-to-know-better approach to life. The sin of the c

“Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days.” — John 11:5–6 Has God ever felt late to something you desperately needed Him to show up for on time? I want to show you something in Scripture that most people read right past. Upgrade here to support Walking with Jesus: Subscribe now John 11:5–6 contains two sentences placed side by side that should stop us cold. Jesus loved Martha and her sister and

Loneliness is the epidemic nobody is talking about. Not the loneliness of being physically alone though that is real and painful. The deeper kind, the loneliness of being surrounded by people and still feeling fundamentally unknown. The loneliness of a marriage where two people share a house but not a heart. The loneliness of a church full of smiling people where nobody actually knows your name beyond the bulletin. The loneliness of being the person everyone comes to and havi

Nobody talks about the in-between. We celebrate the beginnings. The new job, the new relationship, the fresh start, the answer to prayer finally arriving. We acknowledge the endings even the painful ones get recognition. But the space between the ending and the beginning? The season where one chapter has clearly closed and the next one hasn’t opened yet? That season is where a lot of people are living right now. And it is one of the loneliest, most disorienting places a perso

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. — Psalm 119:105 Which Bible verse has carried you through the hardest season of your life and when did you last return to it? The Bible has over 31,000 verses. But if you’ve walked with God for any amount of time you know that certain verses stop being words on a page and start becoming something more like oxygen. Something you reach for when everything else runs out. If you enjoy my Walking with Jesus Newsletter please c

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. — 1 Peter 5:7 What is causing you the most stress right now and have you brought that specific thing honestly to God? What does stress do to your relationship with God does it drive you toward Him or away from Him? If you enjoy my Daily Bible newsletter please consider supporting my work for only $5 a month here: Subscribe now Stress is not a spiritual failure. I want to say that before anything else because there is a ve

“The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” — Zephaniah 3:17 When was the last time someone told you that you were doing a good job and actually meant it? Do you believe God is proud of you right now not the future version, not the improved version, but the current one? Before I get started if you enjoy my Daily Bible newsletter please consid

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? — Isaiah 43:19 September has a feeling unlike any other month. It is not quite summer anymore but not fully fall yet. The light changes, the pace picks up, kids go back to school, work shifts into a new gear. The easy, open quality of summer gives way to something more structured more demanding and more real. Please consider upgrading to support my work for $5 a month here: Subscribe now And for a lot of

Waiting is the part nobody signs up for. You pray. You believe. You do the things faith requires you bring the request, you trust the character of God, you open your hands and release the outcome. And then you wait. And wait. And wait some more. And the waiting is fine at first. You’ve read the Psalms. You know God’s timing is perfect. You trust the process. But then the process goes longer than you expected. Months turn into a year. A year turns into several. The thing you p

The world has gotten very good at making you not feel things. Not through cruelty through convenience. The scroll that fills every quiet moment before a feeling can surface. The next episode that starts automatically so you never have to sit in the silence of the one that just ended. The drink, the food, the purchase, the distraction the hundred small ways we have learned to keep the interior life quiet because quiet means feeling things and feeling things is uncomfortable. W

Let’s just say it out loud. Sometimes God asks for things that feel impossible. Not just difficult impossible. The forgiveness that feels undeserved. The surrender of something you’ve been holding for years. The step forward when you cannot see the ground beneath it. The staying when every instinct says leave. The letting go of the very thing you prayed hardest to receive. And in those moments something honest rises up inside you and says: this is too much. That feeling is no