Short, honest essays on following Jesus through work, family, doubt, joy, and the beautiful ordinary.
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Aug 3, 2025
Martha wasn't wrong to serve. Jesus named the anxiety underneath it.
Jul 20, 2025
Hands can bleed with real work and still stand on borrowed ground.
Jun 29, 2025
Moses had a stutter, Gideon was hiding. He called the unqualified.
Worry is not a personality trait. It is a theological statement that God is not actually in control of the thing keeping you awake at night.
We have built a hierarchy of respectable and unrespectable sins. Nobody steps down from leadership because they could not stop catastrophising about the future. And yet Jesus places worry alongside the things that reveal where your treasure actually is.
Worry is practical atheism with a Christian vocabulary. You can put it down—not because it does not matter, but because it is already in hands far steadier than yours.
About George
“I write toward the places where faith meets the kettle, the commute, the grief, and the kitchen table.”
After more than twenty years as a pastor, I traded the pulpit for a desk by a field. I still believe the Gospel has something steady to say to our restless, ordinary days.
Ancient words for present days.
Faith for your actual Tuesday.
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George writes with the voice of someone who has sat in the dark and learned not to rush toward the light.
A three-minute read that somehow stays with me all week. Clear, gentle, and deeply true.
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