Faithfulness is easy when life feels like sunny and 75. But Jesus Christ was jailed. Mocked. Beaten. Spit on. Crucified. And He told us plainly in John 16:33, “In this world you will have trouble.” Trouble is not a detour. It’s part of the road. What shakes me is this:
Even when Jesus cried, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” — He did not abandon obedience. He stayed on the cross. He stayed faithful. Let me ask you something that confronts me: If everyone around you

Some of you are stuck in the same cycle. You fall short.
You promise you’ll do better.
Then you fall again. You love Jesus — but you keep denying Him in your thoughts, your words, or your actions. And you’re tired of it. Peter knew that feeling. In Mark 14, Jesus tells His disciples that they will fall away. Peter boldly speaks up and insists he will never deny Christ. He is confident. Strong. Certain. But later that same night, in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus invites Pete

I’ve been stealing from God… You know the story in Mark 12:1–12. A man builds a vineyard from scratch. Fence. Tower. Winepress. Investment. Vision. Ownership. He leases it out. Harvest comes. He sends servants to collect what is rightfully his. They beat one. Bloody another. Kill another. Finally, he sends his son. They drag him outside the vineyard…and murder him. Every time I read that parable, I thought: How wicked can you be? But this morning something shifted. I saw my f