Faith is Everything
Mary was the perfect student of theology—thoughtful, diligent, and deeply serious. She understood the mechanics of grace and the weight of sin, yet she remained trapped in spiritual darkness, unable to find the peace she so desperately sought. After months of exhaustive study and pastoral counsel, the breakthrough didn’t come from a complex argument or a profound sermon. It came from twelve simple words in an old hymn.
The Young Irishman
An adaptation of Ichabod Spencer’s first chapter of “A Pastor’s Sketches Vol 1.”
Failure, Forgiveness, and Fire – Part 1
Before the Call: Simon of Bethsaida The wind came early to the lake that morning, curling down out of the hills and running its long fingers across the face of the water. Simon felt it before he saw it—first as a shiver in the sail, then as a faint, insistent rocking under his bare feet. […]
This is Me… Kinda
I’m not a smart man. At least, I’m not a man that has a degree in English or Literature. I did okay in English in High School and College but it wasn’t “my thing” like the other students that wrote poems all the time or had journals.
The Last Pilgrim
Chapter 1 – The Burning Man Elias was paid to lie for a living. But not just any lie, like lying so someone’s feelings doesn’t get hurt, or lying so that someone doesn’t get in trouble… He lied for the greater good. He lived in the heights. His apartment sat on the ninety-third floor of […]
Return
The light came from the east, over Petra. Not like sunrise. Like rupture. A brilliance that split the sky open, white-hot and terrible, as if the sun itself had fallen and shattered against the ancient stone. Those directly beneath it never knew. One moment they were—the next, they simply weren’t. Ash and silence. Further out, […]
The Lamb’s Shadow
It was done. His final sermon concluded. He told the flock who the Shepherd was. The man that ushered in peace amidst the pandemonium of millions that vanished into seemingly thin air. He leaves his altar, far above those watching, cheering, raving. He walks into the back of the church into a room he was […]