Posts Categorized: Mikes Blog

As I have gotten older, I find myself looking back over the long road of life, watching the memories rise like mile markers behind me, and asking a hard and honest question: What does it take to stop a person from doing what God has called them to do? Some are called to build, to… Read more »

Something struck me deeply while watching a series called Jack Ryan. In the story, people were willing to kill and die because they believed they were fighting for truth. They were completely convinced. Their passion was intense, their certainty unshakable. It made me stop and think about the world we live in today. What is… Read more »

“If you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.” — often attributed to Alexander Hamilton I am an old man now, and as the years have passed, much of what once felt urgent has fallen away. What remains is simple: putting one foot in front of the other, day after day. I have learned… Read more »

There are two books in the Bible I struggle to read. One is the Song of Solomon, which I have only read a few times and never quite connected with. The other is the book of Job, and that one troubles me deeply. Job does not trouble me because it lacks faith, but because it… Read more »

History keeps exposing the same mistake. Nations do not fall because they lack resources or intelligence. They fall because they lose their priorities. Again and again, a nation pours its strength into what fades and neglects what lasts. Scripture names the problem plainly: “What is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2… Read more »

Jude 1:11 (NLT) “They deceived people for money.” The future of the Church is not in doubt. Christ promised that the gates of hell would not overcome it. What is always in question is the faithfulness of the people inside it. Scripture shows that God’s work is rarely undone by open attack. It is weakened… Read more »

“Always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.” Paul’s words in 2 Timothy 3:7 read like a description of our time. We live in an age of speed and noise. People move constantly from screen to screen, opinion to opinion, crisis to crisis. Minds are busy, but hearts are unsettled…. Read more »

America has an oversized head in Washington and a loud, morally broken culture that entertains us. They speak the most, demand the most attention, and control the narrative, yet they do not represent the heart of America. The real question is not whether America has a heart, but where that heart lives. The heart of… Read more »

Isaiah warned of a people who would call evil good and good evil, turn light into darkness and darkness into light, excuse the guilty, punish the innocent, and reject the law of the Lord. He said sorrow would follow—not as a threat, but as the natural result of living against truth. That warning now hangs… Read more »

The first word matters most—United. It comes first because everything else depends on it. America was never built on perfect agreement, but on a shared decision to remain one people even while disagreeing. Unity was the foundation. Without it, nothing else stands. America is dividing, not because we disagree, but because we have forgotten how… Read more »