Posts with the category “become-like-jesus”

August 3 – August 9, 2026 Paul writes Ephesians 3:14–21 from a prison cell — and yet he kneels. Not in defeat, but in declaration. This week we slow down inside one of the most powerful prayers in Scr...  Read More

August 3 – August 9, 2026 Paul writes Ephesians 3:14–21 from a prison cell — and yet he kneels. Not in defeat, but in declaration. This week we slow down inside one of the most powerful prayers in Scr...  Read More

August 3 – August 9, 2026 Paul writes Ephesians 3:14–21 from a prison cell — and yet he kneels. Not in defeat, but in declaration. This week we slow down inside one of the most powerful prayers in Scr...  Read More

August 3 – August 9, 2026 Paul writes Ephesians 3:14–21 from a prison cell — and yet he kneels. Not in defeat, but in declaration. This week we slow down inside one of the most powerful prayers in Scr...  Read More

August 3 – August 9, 2026 Paul writes Ephesians 3:14–21 from a prison cell — and yet he kneels. Not in defeat, but in declaration. This week we slow down inside one of the most powerful prayers in Scr...  Read More

August 3 – August 9, 2026 Paul writes Ephesians 3:14–21 from a prison cell — and yet he kneels. Not in defeat, but in declaration. This week we slow down inside one of the most powerful prayers in Scr...  Read More

Monday, August 3 – August 9, 2026 ReflectionPaul is in prison. His circumstances have not changed. And yet he drops to his knees — not in defeat, but in declaration. The posture of prayer is itself a ...  Read More

Ephesians 3:14–21One of the beautiful things about reading Paul's letters is that he often lets us listen in on his prayers. Ephesians 3:14–21 is one of those moments.Paul writes:"For this reason I bo...  Read More

Monday, July 27 – August 2, 2026 ReflectionPaul closes this passage by anchoring everything in the eternal. God's plan to display His manifold wisdom through the Church was not a last-minute adjustmen...  Read More

Monday, July 27 – August 2, 2026 ReflectionGod had a strategy. Not a program. Not a platform. Not a personality. A Church. Paul reveals that the very reason God reconciled sinners to Himself and to on...  Read More

Monday, July 27 – August 2, 2026 ReflectionIn Paul's world, Roman citizenship was the pinnacle of privilege — it meant status, protection, and rights that others could only envy. Paul himself invoked ...  Read More

Monday, July 27 – August 2, 2026 ReflectionPaul could have said Jesus brought peace. He could have said Jesus made peace possible. But he says something far more stunning: Jesus Himself is our peace. ...  Read More

Monday, July 27 – August 2, 2026 Reflection"But now." Two words. And everything shifts. Paul has just painted the bleakest picture imaginable — and then he pivots with those two words. But now. This i...  Read More

Monday, July 27 – August 2, 2026 ReflectionPaul lists five specific wounds that sin inflicted: separated from Christ, excluded from God's people, a stranger to God's promises, without hope, and withou...  Read More

Monday, July 27 – August 2, 2026 ReflectionPaul opens with a command: remember. Not to wallow — but to wonder. Before you could appreciate what you have been given, you need to see clearly what you on...  Read More

Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5 Every thread of this week leads here. The men at Adullam were changed by proximity to David. The disciples were formed by proximity to Jesus. And now Jesus turns to Hi...  Read More

Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5 Three stories, three men, one pattern: when everyone else ran, they stood. Eleazar until his hand froze to the sword. Shammah in a field of lentils while Israel’s troo...  Read More

Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5 Before Jesus sent out the seventy-two, he had the twelve. Before he had the twelve, he had Peter, James, and John. Jesus did not collapse these circles into one. He ma...  Read More

Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5 David and his men are fugitives, hiding from Saul, with no army and no kingdom. And yet when news reaches them that the Philistines are raiding Keilah, David’s first m...  Read More

Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5 he cave of Adullam is not where you would expect a great movement to begin. No prestige, no resources, no obvious promise — only four hundred men who had nothing left ...  Read More

Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28 At the end of his life, David does not hand Solomon a kingdom of regrets and call it inheritance. He hands him plans — detailed, deliberate, drawn from years of prepa...  Read More

Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28 “Be gentle with the young man Absalom, for my sake.” David gives this order to commanders preparing for war against the very son who drove him from his throne. It is ...  Read More

Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28 In the middle of his flight from his own son, David receives word that his trusted counselor Ahithophel has joined the conspiracy. His first recorded response is not ...  Read More

Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28 Before Absalom ever raised an army, he raised a posture — standing daily by the city gate, intercepting every complaint, offering sympathy David never had the chance ...  Read More

Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28 Two years. That is how long Absalom carried his sister’s disgrace before he acted on it — two years of silence so complete that Scripture says he never said a word to...  Read More

What happens when hip-hop collides with theology? In 2024, the rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake dominated headlines, but it was Kendrick’s song Reincarnated that sparked a different kind of...  Read More