Sermon notes · Genesis 15
Grace in the Dark
God keeps His word in the dark.
Expanded study, with all 43 Scripture passages in full.
· The Potter’s House of Dallas
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01 Latest
02 This Month
When Hope Starts to Hurt
There are parts of my heart I have boarded up because I remember what it cost to leave them open.
03 Earlier
The Weight of My No
I spent so much time imagining what people might think that I nearly kept the message to myself.
Send Someone Else
I argued twice that I'm not built to preach. Then God said: shepherd.
Show Me Your Glory
I read Moses' prayer as poetry. It's a request to survive God.
Outsourced Faith
I can quote the preacher. I'm less sure I could find the verse.
The Music That Raised Me
People hear 'Jakes household' and assume we grew up on nothing but gospel. We didn't.
Useful Is Not the Same as Alive
The creative path not taken. What it cost. What it protected.
Some
Paul wrote 'some' four times in one sentence. The church heard 'all.'
Read the Next Verse.
Every 'wives submit' passage has a second half. I spent most of my life ignoring it.
The Theology of Staying on the Call
On suffering, presence, and what it means to sit with someone in the dark — even over FaceTime.
The Thing That Should Have Killed It
What happens when mercy reaches further than the record says it should.
The Stone You're Holding
On forgiveness, cancel culture, and the pride we mistake for righteousness.
I Am Not My Father's Pulpit
The word says 'some' were called to pastor. I wasn't. But I was called.
The Groan Beneath the Song
On the Sunday school lie that split sacred from secular, the Psalms that broke it, and the song that met me when I couldn't pray.
The Nets Were Already Full
What the Galilee shore teaches about the sequence most ministries get wrong.
Nobody Handed Me This
On gumbo, dark rouxs, and the rituals you have to build from scratch.
The Price of Sunday
A meditation on the day between death and life.
I Don't Do Resolutions I Do Reckonings
Some stories don't wait for a happy ending to be worth telling.