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  1. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Sep 6, 2026 · 12 min read

    The Two Places the List Stops: 1 Chronicles 3 to 5

    … chapters of genealogy, the Chronicler pauses twice, both times for someone who prayed. What 1 Chronicles 3-5 teaches about God as provider, and about yes, no, and wait. Nobody reads the genealogies I understand …

  2. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Oct 26, 2026 · 15 min read

    Pour It Out Like Water: Lamentations and the Full Relationship God Invites

    … of the Lord. David said the same: "Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge" (Psalm 62:8, NIV). Notice that pouring out is tied to trust. You only empty your …

  3. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Jun 24, 2026 · 11 min read

    The Gap Where Grace Lives: Exodus 4 to 6 on Imposter Syndrome and Grace

    … 4 to 6 teaches leaders about imposter syndrome: every time Moses said I am not, God answered I AM. Feel unworthy, and go anyway. There is a moment every leader knows and almost none of us admit out loud. You …

  4. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Sep 15, 2026 · 23 min read

    Where the Joy Is: Psalms 73, 77, and 78

    … of God. That should comfort you and warn you at the same time. Proximity to spiritual things does not protect you from a wandering gaze. Only a fixed one does. Across these three psalms, Asaph shows us three …

  5. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Aug 18, 2026 · 27 min read

    The Box They Could Carry: 1 Samuel 4 to 8

    … him up. Morning two, Dagon is facedown again, and this time "his head and hands had been broken off and were lying on the threshold" (1 Samuel 5:4, NIV). Head and hands. The capacity to think and the capacity …

  6. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Sep 17, 2026 · 15 min read

    The Unfinished Prayer God Kept: Psalms 81, 88, 92, and 93

    … the ceiling on a night when nothing made sense. For a long time I assumed those prayers did not count. I thought real prayer was polished, confident, and full of the right words. Everything else felt like …

  7. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Apr 8, 2026 · 20 min read

    The Contagion of Distrust: Numbers 11 to 15 on How Distrust Spreads in a Team

    … not five disconnected stories. It is one warning told five times, each louder than the last. The circle of distrust begins with a few voices at the edge of the camp and ends with a generation buried in the …

  8. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Oct 26, 2026 · 15 min read

    The Shrine Beside the Altar: 2 Kings 17 and Modern Idolatry

    … Nothing we hold is ours. Our homes, businesses, money, time and influence are entrusted to us by the One who owns them. A steward does not negotiate terms with the Owner. A steward serves Him. The Assyrian king …

  9. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Aug 2, 2026 · 11 min read

    The Field You Didn't Choose: The Book of Ruth and Stewardship in Life's Small Moments

    … the drama, and we miss Him entirely, because most of the time He is not at the sea. He is in the field. The book of Ruth opens "In the days when the judges ruled" (Ruth 1:1, NIV). That is not a neutral …

  10. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · May 22, 2026 · 20 min read

    Remember the Rescue: Deuteronomy 5 to 10 on Leadership, Fear, and Pride

    … The verb remember (Hebrew zakar) appears more than a dozen times in these chapters. It is the load-bearing verb of the entire section. Forgetting is not a memory lapse. It is a moral failure. To forget is to …

  11. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Apr 30, 2026 · 12 min read

    The Curse You Never Heard: The Balaam Lesson Every Leader Needs in Numbers 23 and 24

    … curse the people, and watches his strategy collapse four times in a row. Israel never hears it. Israel never has to defend itself. The blessing already spoken over them does the defending. This is the principle …

  12. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Oct 26, 2026 · 16 min read

    Rejoice Over Nineveh: Jonah 1 to 4 and the Heart That Wants Its Enemies Saved

    … to it the message I give you" (Jonah 3:2, NIV). This time he went. His sermon was eight words long in our English Bibles: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown" (Jonah 3:4, NIV). No invitation. No …

  13. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Jul 5, 2026 · 13 min read

    The Ground You Refuse to Take: Judges 1 and 2 on Obedience Born of Love

    … be developing to carry the vision forward, and schedule time with them this week. For Home Leaders: What You Tolerate, You Bequeath The most tolerated compromise in most homes is a slow one: the value you …

  14. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Oct 20, 2026 · 11 min read

    Go Down to the Water: What 2 Kings 5 to 8 Teaches About Humble, Obedient Faith

    … for it: "And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian." (Luke 4:27, NIV) God's grace has no borders. He pursues even …

  15. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Jul 19, 2026 · 14 min read

    Break the Jar: Gideon and the Stewardship of a Faith You Did Not Build

    … annoyed by the asking. He kept answering, patient, as many times as Marcus needed, the way you steady a man who is trying to believe with hands that shake. So Marcus said yes. But he said yes the way a …

  16. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · Jun 1, 2026 · 10 min read

    The Rain You Cannot Make: Deuteronomy 11 to 13

    … well." (Matthew 6:33, NIV) Your Obedience Step Set a fixed time each morning this week to read Scripture and pray before you check your phone, and keep it even on the days that feel full. The Devotional Turn …

  17. Article · Stewardship Faith-Spiritual Growth · May 15, 2026 · 12 min read

    The Inhabitants You Left Standing: Numbers 33 and the Compromises That Undermine Leaders

    … weight of a child. When David walked the lot for the first time, alone, in the cold March wind, he asked his father what he should build, and his father did not answer. But the wind did. A house. Start with one …