Tagged with "suffering"

• The Big Picture

  God is painting on a canvas bigger than we can see.

• Hope

  Written from jail, this testimony reflects on the fragile, painful, and necessary nature of hope—how it can both wound and sustain, and how ultimately hope must rest in God.

• A Meditation In Suffering

  When pain strips away understanding, surrender becomes worship. This meditation offers suffering back to God as an act of trust and praise.

• A Psalm From Confinement

  A meditation of confession, grace, and longing—written when hope felt distant and mercy refused to let go.

• When Jesus Wept

  The shortest verse in the Bible reveals the depth of Christ’s love and grief over a broken world. Jesus wept — not out of weakness, but out of divine compassion.

• From It or Through It

  When the king renamed them, he thought he was erasing them. He wasn't.

• Held on Every Side

  As mountains encircle Jerusalem, God’s presence surrounds His people — corporately and personally — now and forever.

• Heading Home

  The psalms teach us that faith does not move in straight lines—from despair to trust, and from trust to being led again toward God Himself.

• Fractured Light

  A testimony of brokenness, mercy, and the quiet work of God in the darkest places—where grace refracts through what has been shattered.

• From Exile to Eden

  “A story of addiction, surrender, confinement, and grace. This testimony stands on its own — offered not as instruction, but as witness — to the slow, unexpected work of God in a life brought to the end of itself.”

• A Big God

  In the vastness of a universe held within God, even our sin and suffering are not beyond His presence—inviting us to trust that He can transform what once tormented us into instruments of glory.

• Building a Throne

  In a place stripped of comfort, I discovered that worship does not depend on abundance. It depends on who God is.

• Never Told Why

  Trust is not found in understanding the script. It is staying in the story with God when you cannot see the reason.

• Why Indeed

  When despair rises and the future feels uncertain, Psalm 42 reminds us that even the overwhelming waves of life are under God’s control — and His presence remains with us.

• Letters From Confinement

  A book-length sequence of reflections, prayers, and meditations shaped by confinement, moving from collapse to new sight.

• The Confinement Journals: Finding God in the Silence

  Twenty reflections, prayers, and meditations written during a season of confinement—tracing the journey from descent to encounter.

• When Life Hurts: Finding Purpose in the Pain

  Seven reflections for seasons of sorrow, waiting, and weakness, discovering the nearness and faithfulness of God in suffering.

• On Amazon and Life

  A review of his Amazon cart — butter dish, heating pad, Bible pens — opens into an account of homelessness, jail, divorce, and rebuilding on $200 a month. God is providing. It's a long, slow crawl. But I've already won.

• What Fear?

  When the police knocked with an arrest warrant, every fear he had imagined came true at once. What followed — 653 days in a cell, divorce, homelessness — brought something unexpected: an identity, a relationship, and power. God isn't a path out of addiction. He IS the path.