by Darci Steiner | Aug 22, 2025 | Inspiration
Imagine you’re sailing on open water when a sudden storm sweeps in. The waves rise like walls, the wind roars in your ears, and visibility drops to almost nothing. Around you, panic spreads—some sailors lash their boats to each other, thinking combined strength will...
by Chet Gladkowski | Aug 21, 2025 | Inspiration, Spiritual Growth
Yes, God deeply wants us to be Crusty Christians, but not in the way you’re thinking There’s something very special and personal about being in front of God’s face. Right where He is. To know that He’s looking at us. Where He pays attention to us. Where we have...
by Blake Mattocks | Aug 19, 2025 | Inspiration
August 19. Li De Xian. Pastor Li has been arrested so many times he’s lost count. Arrested and treated brutally for illegal preaching. He keeps a go-bag ready, not for jet-setting, but for the next arrest. It contains a blanket and a change of clothes. Don’t settle...
by Luke Frey | Aug 19, 2025 | Inspiration
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”—Isaiah 55:8–9 (KJV) Yesterday, I sat in a God-focused...
by Troy Stoneking | Aug 18, 2025 | Inspiration
If I Don’t Follow Every Command of Jesus, Will I Go to Hell? Well now, that’s a fun question. Any time someone ends a sentence with, “will I go to hell?”, it’s certainly going to draw some interest. Nobody wants to be the person who makes the eternally fatal...
by David Ettinger | Aug 17, 2025 | Inspiration
A Much Different Perspective A few days ago, I posted a blog titled “David’s Torment” which focused on King David’s acute anguish and pain, as outlined in Psalm 69. On the other end of the spectrum is Psalm 131, a brief 3-verse missive which shows the king restful and...