Impasse Island
There you are, gazing off the port side, 2,400,000 meters beneath the surface of the water, transfixed by what should be impossible. It is beautiful and terrifying all at once. Innumerable creatures glow as though lit by a black light, while shipwreckage lies scattered across the ocean floor like the remains of forgotten worlds. What is this place? The water is so transparent that you can see the shapes of islands beneath the surface. They rise like…
Setting Sail: Practicing Providence in the Mind Before the Keyboard
As I think about what it means to move forward in my writing at Time for Providence, I find myself praying in the Spirit: “Lord, help me discover the creativity to tell the stories of Your providence in a way that draws people to the love and truth of Your Word.” Lately the Lord has been using two unexpected lanes to expose what’s been shaping me: personality frameworks (through the Enneagram…
Do Not Be Quickly Shaken: Holding the Helm in a Synthetic Storm
(Mark 13:21–22; 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12 — NASB 1995) There’s a kind of shaking that doesn’t come from earthquakes.It comes from the screen. A clip that feels too perfect.A “prophecy” that lands too precisely.A voice that sounds familiar—because it was built from someone familiar. The sea hasn’t changed.But the fog has. And when fog rolls in, sailors don’t steer by shimmer on the waves.They steer by the…
Why Would Jesus Say “Buy a Sword”? The Word That Pierces or Hardens
“And He said to them, ‘When I sent you out without money belt and bag and sandals, you did not lack anything, did you?’ They said, ‘No, nothing.’ And He said to them, ‘But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one. For I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me, “And He was numbered with…
Setting Sail for the Throne of Grace
There are days my faith feels like a voyage—wind in the sails, waves beneath the hull, and an unseen destination drawing me forward. I look at the horizon of my own life and realize something sobering: I am always moving. The only question is toward what—and by what compass. Scripture does not invite us to drift. It commands us to draw near. “Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and…
http://timeforprovidence.com/2026/01/30/setting-sail-for-the-throne-of-grace/
The Far Horizon and the Near Savior
Accessing the Divine Through Transcendence—Without Losing the Gospel There’s a reason a sailing ship at sea feels “spiritual” to so many of us. Alone on open water, under a sky that looks endless, you feel it: smallness, wonder, vulnerability, longing. The horizon is both invitation and warning. It calls you forward, but it also reminds you you’re not in control. That’s the pull of transcendence—the sense that reality is bigger than…
http://timeforprovidence.com/2026/01/27/the-far-horizon-and-the-near-savior/
“For the Forgiveness of Your Sins”
There are verses in Scripture that are easy to confess and harder to inhabit.Acts 2:38 has become one of those verses for me. “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” I don’t struggle to believe this verse is true.I struggle to understand how fully I have received what it declares. I have been baptized into Christ. I believe…
http://timeforprovidence.com/2026/01/22/for-the-forgiveness-of-your-sins/
Emmaus Lounge: Suffering For The Gospel
It’s funny to imagine myself on my ship in a lounge with the Holy Spirit, discussing what martyrdom looks like for me in honor of the King—pipe in hand, coffee on the table—like we’re planning some noble saga together. It doesn’t feel enough to suffer as I am—not that I would wish disaster, disease, cancer, homelessness, familylessness, or godlessness upon myself. It’s just difficult to accept an “abundant life” while being aware…
http://timeforprovidence.com/2026/01/19/emmaus-lounge-suffering-for-the-gospel/
