2026

I’m sitting here, chewing on a verse. Isaiah wrote it to people much older than me, but it hits me differently when I realize what previously defined me in my job is . . . gone. Am I the same person? Do I still have value? “Even to your old age I will be the

“To those who reside as strangers, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood:” — 1 Peter 1:1–2 NASB2020 Notice that Peter starts by describing who these

But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.  (Isaiah 53:5 NASB) “Good” Friday? Pierced, crushed, chastened, and scourged. How can this day be called Good Friday? It is the day marking the most brutal treatment imaginable of