Faith when the miracle doesn’t come the way you expected. I absolutely love a good testimony. You know those kinds… “I didn’t know how I was going to pay the bill…and then a check showed up!” kind. Those are faith building, exciting testimonies of how great our God is. We tell them to everyone we come across. We celebrate them. We even sometimes shout a little when we hear them. But there’s another kind of testimony we don't talk about nearly as much if at all and it

Expectation vs. Reality from a Small Church Pastor When God called me into ministry, I had a picture in my mind. I imagined spending my days in deep theological conversations over coffee. I pictured people eagerly asking profound questions, or having conversations like "Let's discuss the sovereignty of God versus free will." I envisioned preaching sermons that would shake heaven and earth. Leading revival services. Watching lives transformed every single week. I thought I

There are days in life that become bookmarks. You know the ones. You can remember exactly where you were, what you were doing, and how life was forever divided into "before" and "after." For me, that day was in April of 2017. I wasn't climbing Mount Everest. I wasn't on some great adventure. I was simply doing my job, delivering car batteries. Funny how ordinary days have a habit of becoming extraordinary without asking our permission. The weather changed. The roads became sl