3 years ago today I was a different man. I had just been released from jail and was facing the hardest battle of my life. I remember the...

Demons are popular. At least in the movies. Who can forget The Exorcist series or the myriad of other possession based films. It’s a...

Iced in. Quarantined. And I have a problem. I don’t know how to be bored. I think we’re all bad at being bored in today’s world. ...

Normalize the Spiritual: God Still Speaks The nature of the God of the Bible is to reveal Himself to us. From the very beginning, God...

We love spiritual stuff, or at least the idea of being spiritual ourselves. Movies and TV Shows about the spiritual realm and the...

Today, I thought I’d let the words of my daughter (11) speak. Her words remind me that, as parents, there’s no greater joy and nothing of...

God pummeled me last night with a simple phrase, “Your wife doesn’t owe you anything.” God 1. Jerod 0. Our small group has been talking...

This is my happy place. What’s your happy place? — I’ve been on the struggle bus a little lately because my happy place has been more...

Comparison is the enemy of joy. We’ve heard the quote many times that’s often attributed to Theodore Roosevelt. (Remember when presidents...

Sometimes I think we’ve just got it all backwards. The crux of our faith is a man laying down His life for undeserving people. It’s the...

You create a culture when you do what you do.  Intentionally or unintentionally, you’re making an atmosphere around you as you go about...

Control is the opposite of faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God. In rehab i learned i truly can’t control others. I can’t...

I want the ‘even if he doesn’t’ kind of faith found in Daniel 3. When faced with a fiery demise, I want the faith that says “My God is...

The problem is that we fear the wrong thing(s). The problem is that we choose to be influenced by the wrong kind of fear. Recently, I’ve...

A counselor once told me that my expectations were future disappointments...and it made me angry. I thought to myself, ‘What?!?! I can’t...

How do you answer the question?  What modifiers come to your mind when you attempt to define yourself? If you’re like me, the first one...

At the beginning of the year, I felt God nudging me to write. I kept hearing “Spend time with me and your pen and your journal”. I felt...

Inexplicable heaviness. It’s covering our country. It’s palpable in our churches. It nags at you in the dark as you try to sleep. It...

I thought those words to myself as I barely got a workout in this morning (after way too many days off). “Jerod, you’ve gotta pull it...