19 posts tagged with "Spirituals"

Somewhere in a startup office, a meeting is happening that should have been an email. Deadlines are discussed with confidence, priorities are “aligned” in real time, and words like velocity, ownership, and urgency move freely across the room. Everyone nods. Everyone agrees. And yet, if you pause long enough, a strange realization settles in. No one is entirely sure what is actually happening. The team is busy, but not effective. The company is moving, but not progressing.

Somewhere in a quiet office, a church hallway, a startup meeting, or a family living room, a familiar drama unfolds.

A task was promised.
A deadline was agreed upon.
An expectation was set.

And then… nothing happens.
An explanation arrives instead.

There is always a reason. A circumstance. A complication. A cosmic alignment of events that made success impossible. The weather was wrong. The tools were wrong. The instructions were unclear. The timing was unfortunate.

In this moment, something subtle but powerful is revealed.

Somewhere in a quiet corner of life, a troubling thought appears.

A man says he follows Jesus.

He sings the songs. Knows the phrases. Grew up around church buildings, church programs, church people.

Yet the question lingers in the air like a whisper that refuses to leave:

Does he actually know Christ?

"Cast your cares on the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to fall."
— Psalm 55:22

Let's start with something simple:

God said you should cast your cares on Him.

Not the other way around.

"You are not going to be a disciple spending 1 hour a week with Jesus"
- Andrew Wormack

Imagine, if you will, a small, padded room. It has air conditioning, polite music, and comfortable chairs arranged in neat rows. Once a week, for exactly sixty minutes, the occupants gather. They listen. They nod. They may even say “Amen.” Then a clock ticks, the doors open, and everyone returns to their regularly scheduled lives.

You have just entered the Twilight Zone of modern discipleship.

Picture this: three men are nailed to crosses, each enduring the same agonizing fate, but with vastly different destinies. On the center cross is Jesus, the Savior of sinners, suffering not for His own crimes but for ours. Flanking Him are two criminals, each with a lesson to teach, though their methods are wildly different.

The Grand Illusion 🎭​

Meet Chukwudi. A regular Nigerian, trying to mind his business, dodge potholes, and survive fuel scarcity ⛽. But he has a problem—he's trapped in an endless rabbit hole of The Theories.

“Did you know the Illuminati controls the banks?” he whispers.
“Freemasons are running world governments!” he adds, adjusting his glasses.
“Bros, no be me talk am oh, but dem say big musicians sell their soul for fame.” 🎤💀

"My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them... Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it." — Proverbs 1:10-19

Drowning, Dead, and Delivered 🌊⚰️➡️⛵​

A true religion must get one thing right—forgiveness of sins. Any theology that is all about "human dignity and welfare" without properly addressing sin is like a car with no engine—looks good, goes nowhere. 🚗💨

Cue the waterworks. 💔

Peter’s Epic Fail (and Comeback): A Tale of Fear, Failure, and Fiery Redemption 🔥

Peter, Peter, Peter. One moment he’s slicing off ears like a biblical Zorro, the next he’s cowering before a servant girl. 😬

Jesus gets arrested, and Peter—who had just hours earlier vowed to die for him—finds himself in a bit of a situation. Three times, people ask if he’s with Jesus, and three times he denies it. Not once, not twice, but a full-blown hat-trick of betrayal. "Me? A disciple? Never heard of the guy!" he insists, likely sweating buckets. And just as Jesus predicted, a rooster crows. 🐓

Cue the waterworks. 💔