Posts By: Carol Dietz

In Luke 5 and 6, when Jesus tells Peter, “From now on you will catch men,” He immediately begins reshaping what that calling means. He does not lead Peter into a synagogue and tell him to remain there. He walks him into real life — into streets, workplaces, and crowded homes. The leper is outside… Read more »

“The Word became flesh — and so must the words we claim to believe.”   I woke up again at 1 a.m. No noise. Just suddenly awake. That has happened enough over the years that I no longer resist it. I have come to recognize that hour as a time when everything is stripped down…. Read more »

Luke chapter one is not just a collection of miracle stories. It is a picture of what it feels like to live with a word from God while life keeps pressing you in the opposite direction. Each person in this chapter carries a different kind of weight, but all of them are connected by the… Read more »

I recently had a conversation with someone about prophecy in the Bible. He asked a question that many people have wondered about, even if they’ve never said it out loud. He said, “Is prophecy really God telling the future, or is it just people later on reading it and then trying to make it happen?”… Read more »

If you want to understand what it takes to stop a man who is doing what God has called him to do, you need to read the book of Nehemiah. The story is not merely about building a wall. It is about how the enemy responds when something righteous begins to rise.   Nehemiah had… Read more »

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)   The greatest is love. Not power. Not knowledge. Not success. Love. That is how our walk with the Lord begins, and that is how it continues. Our relationship with God is not built on fear, performance,… Read more »

There are few things in this life that can shake a person to the core. Sickness is one of them. Especially when it is serious. Especially when it is terminal. It does not just attack the body, it attacks the mind. It steals sleep. It steals strength. It steals appetite. It steals joy. And if… Read more »

Acts 4:13 is more than a verse to me. It is the banner over my life. It is the kind of testimony I want written over my name when my time here is finished. The verse says that when the leaders saw the boldness of Peter and John, they realized they were uneducated and ordinary… Read more »

This morning I felt the weight of this earthly body in a way that cannot be ignored. Age has a quiet way of speaking. The strength that once felt permanent now comes and goes. The body reminds a man that he was never designed to live here forever. And with that reminder comes a deeper… Read more »

I had this thought running through my head all day yesterday: a father’s role is not to stop his child from going through hardship, but to help them while they go through it.   That idea challenges how we often define love. We tend to believe love means protection from pain. But a good father… Read more »