“Ex Nihilo” – out of nothing (Latin)

We live in a world that trusts abundance. We are taught to measure security by what we can see and count. Full closets. Well-furnished homes. Accounts padded for the future. Everything we need, within reach, just in case.

The culture persuades us to avoid scarcity at all costs. Society scof...

Life brings seasons that test even the strongest hearts.

There are moments when joy feels distant and emotions feel too heavy to carry… sorrow, exhaustion, fear, grief, burnout. We might assume that “strong faith” means we shouldn’t feel this way, but Scripture paints a different picture. God never shamed His children for their emotions. He met them ...

Fear has a way of slipping into the soul like a cold wind under a door; quiet at first, then persistent, then paralyzing. I’ve found myself in such a season lately. Not merely startled by the world’s darkness, but nearly transfixed by it. Every headline, every story of cruelty or madness, has pressed itself into my thoughts until my faith journey, once steady, ...

Every holiday season, my family rewatches Home Alone (1990). Toward the end of the movie, there’s a moment that feels almost out of place in today’s cultural landscape: Kevin goes to the neighborhood church on Christmas Eve. There, he encounters his elderly neighbor—a man he had feared throughout the film—and learns of his estranged relationship with h...