Surrender
It’s Sunday. No teaching today. No deep dive. Just one verse from a Psalm David wrote when he was watching people around him succeed by all the wrong means, and his instinct was to grip, to fix, to control. He talks himself down with a sentence worth sitting with
Surrender
Saturday is deep dive day. On Saturdays we take one thing from the week and look at what it actually says in the original language, because sometimes the English carries a lot less than the Greek was carrying. Today, one Greek word that reshapes what the whole act of surrender
Surrender
You can usually tell someone is gripping something before they can. The sideways comment about the thing they claim not to care about. The 3am mental loop they can't explain. The visible flinch when someone brings up a specific topic. The way their body tightens when a certain
Surrender
Surrender, like trust, like prayer, like every spiritual muscle, will not build itself from an idea. You can read about it. You can nod at the Sunday sermon on it. You can even talk about it in your small group. And still, when the moment comes to actually hand something