Salvaged By God

Life has jumped on you with both feet and you're just about ready to throw in the towel. Before you do — let this be the bellows to the embers that remain. Four ways to actually live for Christ when the bummer train pulls into your station.

Your past, your circumstances, your personality, your struggles — none of them are obstacles to the God who transformed a murderer named Saul into the apostle Paul. The short answer? Yes, God can use your life. But it must first be His to use. The secret lies in one word: surrender.

When Zacchaeus climbed that tree, he was a lost sinner. By the time he got back down to the ground, he was a child of God. How that happened in his life is worth exploring — because it happened in mine, and it can happen in yours too.

Reformation will put new clothes on a person. Regeneration will put a new person in those clothes. Born once, die twice. Born twice, never die. That's the difference the new birth makes.

Salvation is a free gift that once you receive it, you gladly in your heart understand that it costs everything. If you think you have Jesus on one hand holding on to the world with the other, you're flat out wrong. That's not salvation—that's religion.

A leper—walking death, isolated, hopeless—pushed through a hostile crowd for one minute with Jesus. Others would have stoned him. Jesus touched him. The corruption didn't transfer to Christ. Christ's cleansing transferred to the leper. That's still how it works today.

Jesus told a parable about four soils—but only one produced real fruit. Look closer: there are four hearers, three conversions, and two are false. What separates authentic faith from the counterfeit? It's time to examine yourself and see whether you are truly in the faith.

AI deep fakes. Spiritual hypothermia. Wars and rumors of wars. The 2026 forecast is stormy—but there's a shelter. Your Bible, your prayer life, and your church are the jacket, heater, and umbrella you need to weather what's coming.

Think of the Bible like a buffet table with 66 dishes. You get a small taste from each, but you'll know what that flavor is—and then you'll have a full plate. Genesis 1:1 through Revelation 22:21. So, let's go.

Christmas will be gone in a week. Or will it? The Lamb was promised, prepared, and provided. When Simeon held the 40-day-old Messiah, he couldn't contain his praise. If you understand what Christ has done for you—praise is just the result. You can't help it.

Those swaddling clothes weren't just blankets. In Bethlehem, they wrapped spotless lambs' feet so they'd never touch the ground—marking them for sacrifice. When Mary wrapped Jesus that way, she marked him as the one. The Lamb of God had arrived.

For thousands of years humanity waited. And while humanity waited, God worked. The most challenging thing from a human perspective? Getting His Lamb into the world. This is the big mic-drop moment of all human history—when God became flesh.