These reflections began as quiet meditations between patient visits and pages of fiction. They’ve grown into a journal of faith — a place to wrestle with Scripture, grace, and the call to live faithfully in a restless world.
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Quiet Hunger of the Soul: Faith and Purpose in China & America
In America, many young people combat the emptiness of modern life by turning to Christianity. Faith offers more than rules — it provides a higher calling, a divine purpose to address the quiet hunger of the soul. Church communities foster accountability, helping believers avoid self-destructive habits like addiction and reckless relationships. Yet, skepticism persists. Critics…
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Modern Life Malaise: Disillusionment in China and America
During our recent trip to China, we got the impression that many Chinese are frustrated with their lives, bored with their jobs, and feeling a lack of hope about the future. This is not dissimilar to Americans, who seek to drown their boredom and frustration with television, alcohol, and other mindless pursuits. Today’s blog post…
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Living as Those Ascended with Christ: A Higher Fellowship
Ascended With Christ: Living From a Higher Realm “For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” (Colossians 3:3) The Christian life is not simply a moral code or set of religious practices. At its core, it is a spiritual transformation—a radical repositioning of the believer from the realm of earth to…
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God Longs For Every Child To Come Home
Today\’s blog post explores the notion that God longs for every child to come home. First, we look at a passage of scripture. Then I include a brief devotional from Watchman Nee. Then we discuss the challenging question of what happens when someone lives without the opportunity to know God? God\’s Longing Bring the fatted…
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The Dividing of Soul and Spirit
One of the most mysterious and essential truths of the Christian life is the difference between what originates in us and what originates in God, the dividing of Soul and Spirit. So much of our energy—even in ministry, prayer, and devotion—can come from our own soul: our will, our feelings, our thoughts. But Scripture calls…
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Psalm 51: Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
Today, we examine Psalm 51, King David’s deeply personal and heartfelt prayer of repentance after being confronted by the prophet Nathan about his sin with Bathsheba. I am featuring an incredible commentary written by Alexander MacLaren. Please take the time to read his insightful words. There is so much depth and understanding in his explanation…
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Psalm 80 Foreshadows the Messiah and Points to Jesus
A Cry for Rescue, A Glimpse of Redemption Psalm 80 is one of those hauntingly beautiful laments that echoes through the centuries with unmistakable urgency. It\’s the cry of a broken people—scattered, afflicted, longing for restoration. But hidden in its poetic appeals is something more than desperation: there’s hope. A hope for a Shepherd, a…
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Choosing God\’s Will
The following scripture from Matthew and commentary from Watchman Nee address the important issue of choosing God\’s will over our own. Today\’s blog post explores the important distinction between burden and cross. And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me. Matthew 10.38. Watchman Nee writes: \”A…
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Fear of the Lord is Wisdom
Job 28 is an incredible verse in one of the most powerful books of the Bible. In it, Job argues that fear of the Lord is wisdom. Man can mine gold and gems deep in the earth while animals don\’t even know they exist. Similarly, man can search for wisdom, but he\’s as incapable of…
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A Better Way Forward
A Legacy in Waiting For many Jews today, the Messianic hope still lingers in the background—woven into liturgies, sung in songs, whispered in prayers, and held as a deep yearning for a world finally healed. The prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures spoke of a time when swords would be beaten into plowshares, when justice would…
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Written on the Heart
For centuries, people have carried a profound hope—a vision of a world made whole, a Messianic Age when justice, peace, and divine presence would finally dwell among us. Yet today, many find that hope dulled by time, buried under the weight of tradition, secularism, or pain. In this reflection, we explore a better way forward—a…
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Salvation for the Jews: Part Two
Salvation for the Jews: Part Two The early Jewish believers in Jesus—often called the Jerusalem Church or Jewish Christians—lived directly in a tension between the Old Covenant (the Law of Moses) and the New Covenant established through Jesus. Their experiences help us understand how the earliest followers of Christ, many of whom were devout Jews,…