Finding Our
Way Home

The word judgment  carries a chill. It sparks old images - courtrooms, verdicts, a final reckoning that feels abrupt and severe. Many of us were taught to imagine judgment as something waiting for us after  death, unknown and terrifying, as though God were withholding the results until the very end. But Scripture tells a quieter, more startling truth. Judgment is not only future. It is already at work ... woven into the way life unfolds. Again and again, Scripture returns t

When I was seven, I knew Jesus without effort. Not with beliefs I could defend, not with words I had learned ... but with the simple knowing that He was kind, and that kindness felt like home. It was easy then. Uncomplicated. Like reaching for a hand and finding it ... warm, steady. But life grew heavier. Noise crowded in. Disappointments reshaped my world, and certainty thinned like mist in the sun. Somewhere along the way, I fell back; turned less to my faith in His kindne

Lately you realize how much you have drifted. Perhaps in rebellion. Or maybe not in any grand defiance, but simply in the small, tired ways a heart wanders ... when life overcomes faith with its perplexity, its disappointments, its unending demands. You look up one day and notice the distance, how far you are from your early joy, any deep sense of well-being and the One who guided you in the past. At first shame arises. A crude questioning of self. The sting of finding your