Posts Categorized: Mikes Blog

“He who rejects the truth will never find peace in the lie.”   This morning I was thinking about a moment in John 4 where a woman says, “I know the Messiah is coming… when He comes, He will explain everything.” That sounds like us. We think answers are coming, clarity is coming, one day… Read more »

“The enemy of truth is silence.” — Charles de Gaulle   “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King Jr.   We live in a time where the answer to every problem seems to be more laws, more rules, and more control, but laws do… Read more »

“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” — Helen Keller   The word hope, what does that mean? Yesterday I played golf with a man who has been fighting cancer for the last fifteen years. He has gone through treatments, setbacks, and uncertainty that most people will never fully understand. For… Read more »

I watched a movie about the Civil War, and one line stayed with me. A southern landowner said he knew they had lost when he saw how the North built their cities, not around churches, but around schoolhouses, because they understood that whoever shapes the minds of the next generation controls the future. That was… Read more »

As we move toward the midterm elections, the message being spoken is clear and repeated often, and it comes directly from leaders and is echoed through the media. Bernie Sanders has said, “We should demand that the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes,” and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said, “You cannot… Read more »

“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24)   That verse is not written for a calm world. It is written for mornings like this one, when people wake up already carrying something. It is not a suggestion, it is a decision. It does… Read more »

The Bible does not describe the end as a sudden appearance of obvious evil, but as a progression in which the world becomes ready for something it would have once resisted. The Antichrist, the Beast, and the False Prophet do not rise in isolation. They rise because the conditions of the world make their rise… Read more »

Noah Webster, the author of the first American Speller and the first American Dictionary, warned that the moral principles found in Scripture must serve as the foundation of civil law and government. He recognized that the suffering seen throughout history—crime, injustice, oppression, and war—is not accidental, but the result of a people turning away from… Read more »

2 Peter 1:19 says, “You must pay close attention to what they wrote, for their words are like a lamp shining in a dark place.”   I am reminded of a time in my life while hunting when I became disoriented and darkness began to fall around me. At first, it seemed like a minor… Read more »

I was playing golf with a friend, and for four hours we laughed, joked, and enjoyed the day together. There was no tension between us, no sense of division, just two people getting along and sharing time. Nothing felt off, and nothing felt divided. It was simple, easy, and real.   When we finished and… Read more »