The Wood He Named
When you've built for a living, you recognize a spec sheet when you read one. God handed Moses dimensions, materials, connections. And one material keeps showing up: acacia. The wood the world would have walked right past.
Faith
Christ Centered Faith
Build It By Design - Part 3: Swept and Empty
We don't fall all at once. We drift one unchecked thought at a time. A clean life isn't enough if the house is left empty. Build it by God's design, fill it with His Word, and keep watch—because the fight isn't over on this side of Heaven
Build It By Design — Part 2: Fill It
You can build a house right and still leave it empty. A finished frame, square to every line — and bare. Building is not the end. It is the start. Now you have to fill it. And here is the thing about an empty room: it does not stay empty. The only question is whether you fill it — or the world does.
Build It By Design — Part 1: Foundation & House
The foundation is Christ, and it holds. But a foundation is not a house. The life you build on top of it still matters — and the storm will tell whether you built by the design or by the world.
Light Yoke
I always pictured the yoke as wood — two oxen, side by side, pulling a plow. Then I learned what a yoke meant to Jesus' first hearers, and what the old preachers were trying to tell us about it long before modern science could explain why it matters.
The Bridge We Build
Moody said there's no bridge between the flesh and the Spirit. Two fields, two harvests, no crossing. So we built one anyway and called it the gray — and the divided life we live out on it isn't only a spiritual problem. It's the birthplace of what we call a mental health crisis.