#ProtectYourPeace
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Why Good People Turn Today we’re getting into something that most people don’t want to talk about because it feels uncomfortable. We’re talking about the “Spore Effect.” You know, we spend so much time focusing on how to grow good fruit in our lives, joy, peace, humility, and gratefulness. We treat these attributes like they… Read more
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One of the most valuable lessons in protecting your peace is learning to separate the wisdom from the source. In life, we often encounter powerful truths, profound advice, or insightful observations delivered by people whose actions, character, or treatment of us fall short. When this happens, we face a choice: Do we reject the entire… Read more
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The Lie of the ‘Perfect Christian’ on Social Media Lately, I’ve been thinking deeply about the quiet, constant pressure in many faith communities: the unspoken rule that a true Christian’s life should only be shared in a clean, polished, happy highlight reel. We are often led to believe that our faith is only strong if… Read more
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When the Stage Is a Whitewashed Tomb: Why Faking It for the Masses Isn’t God’s Plan Let’s be real for a minute. We’ve all seen it. The social media feed full of perfect, filtered lives. The church leader who preaches humility from a gilded stage. The influencer whose every post is a curated story about… Read more
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Sometimes the simplest truths hit the hardest. We feel them in our bones, in our weary muscles, and in the scars that tell stories we don’t always want to share. A statement I’ve carried with me, one that feels profoundly true, is: ”Inflictions to the flesh are just that. The flesh was made to be… Read more
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For most of my life, I was lost. Not in a metaphorical sense, but literally. I was a runaway, a homeless teen walking the streets, feeling as though I had no direction and no purpose. I was raised in a way that left me confused, a way I didn’t understand. My mom practiced things that… Read more
