Everyone has hope. But there are two kinds. One kind is a distant hope — somewhere in the future, it might happen, it might not. This kind of hope is like the horizon: you walk toward it, and it stays forever ahead of you, always out of reach. The other kind is a living hope.… Continue reading A Living Hope — 1 Peter 1:3-4
Category: Devotionals
Christ the Living Stone — 1 Peter 2:4-6
Peter’s name in Greek means “rock.” This was no accident. When Jesus said to Simon, “You are Peter,” he was declaring an identity — an unshakeable foundation. A rock is solid, steadfast, capable of bearing weight. But what Peter confesses in chapter 2 of his letter is not just any rock. It is a living… Continue reading Christ the Living Stone — 1 Peter 2:4-6
The Trinity Is the Perfect Description of God’s Love— Meditating on the Structure of Love in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
Introduction — The Oldest Question, Still an Unfamiliar Truth “The Trinity? Honestly, I don’t quite get it.” Even those who have walked in faith for many years often say this. Three persons yet one God — it doesn’t easily resolve itself in the mind. Even those who have attended church since childhood often find themselves… Continue reading The Trinity Is the Perfect Description of God’s Love— Meditating on the Structure of Love in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
The French Revolution That Rejected All Authority, and the World Its Descendants Inhabit
Prologue: The Guillotine Is Gone, but the Revolution Continues On January 21, 1793, the head of Louis XVI fell from the guillotine. The crowd roared. The king was dead. But what the revolutionaries truly wanted to kill was not a single king. What they aimed at was authority itself. Royal power. Church authority. Tradition. God.… Continue reading The French Revolution That Rejected All Authority, and the World Its Descendants Inhabit
The Stolen Sons — The Devşirme, A Forgotten Tragedy in Christian History
It was a spring morning. In a small mountain village in the Balkans, a Serbian farming family was starting their day. The father had gone to the fields before dawn. The mother was preparing breakfast for her son. Twelve-year-old Danilo was playing with a young goat in the yard. It was an ordinary morning. Then… Continue reading The Stolen Sons — The Devşirme, A Forgotten Tragedy in Christian History
While the Church Slept, the Storm Came
The Ottoman Empire, 600 years of darkness, and the erasure of God’s people A World We Have Forgotten Before we speak of empires and conquest, we must first see what was there before. In the 7th century, the Middle East was not empty. It was home to some of the oldest, most deeply rooted Christian… Continue reading While the Church Slept, the Storm Came
God Never Sealed the Bible. Men Did.
A System Built on Ignorance For centuries, the only sanctioned Bible in the Western Church was the Latin Vulgate — a translation produced in the 4th century, in a language that had long since ceased to be spoken by ordinary people. Farmers, mothers, merchants, craftsmen — none of them could read it. None of them… Continue reading God Never Sealed the Bible. Men Did.