Field Note Archive

These aren’t essays or studies — they’re trail notes.

Some were scribbled in the middle of a spiritual thunderstorm.

Others were just thoughts that wouldn’t leave me alone until I wrote them down.

Not all of them will age well.

Some might only be helpful for a moment — and that moment may have passed.

Others might still be simmering with something true.

I’ve left them here not because they’re polished,

but because they’re part of the journey.

Mine… and maybe yours too.

  • Santa, Grace, and the Christmas Mixed Message”

    Every December we tell two stories at the same time, and I’m not sure we really notice how different they are until we stop and pay attention. On one hand, there’s the story of God stepping into the world as a child, the beginning of everything good. On the other hand, there’s the story of…

  • Christmas, the Date That Doesn’t Matter

    This is the time of year when we celebrate the birth of Jesus, our Savior and King. And yes, December 25 probably isn’t His actual birthday. We don’t know the day. We don’t know the season. We may not even have the year exactly right. The Gregorian calendar didn’t begin at the moment of His…

  • What the Bible Tells Us About the Lord’s Supper

    I first took part in the Lord’s Supper when I was nine years old. In every fellowship I have been part of, those who trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior were invited to share in it. The details of how and when it was observed were never the focus. What mattered most was…

  • What Romans 10:9 Really Means

    Romans 10:9 gets quoted a lot like it’s the Christian version of a secret password: say the line, believe the fact, and heaven opens like an automatic door at the grocery store. But that’s not what Paul meant, and it doesn’t match the rest of Scripture. When Paul said, “If you confess with your mouth…

  • A Different Kind of Unity

    The headline reads “divided,” but the story underneath is more complicated — and, if we’re honest, more hopeful. Yes, there are factions that inflame and target. Yes, public life feels raw and sometimes mean. But those loud actors are not the whole nation; they’re a minority with outsized volume. What we’re seeing at the edges…

  • Thinking That Leads to Truth”

    7/24/25 Field Note: God doesn’t bypass the mind—He renews it. Somewhere along the way, a lot of Christians got the idea that faith and thinking don’t go together. “Just believe,” we were told. “Don’t overthink it.”And for a while, maybe that worked. Until we realized we were standing in a fog, surrounded by half-truths, culture-war…

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