Dead to the World
Dead to the World - Part 7: Hidden with Christ in God
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
If someone watched your life this week, what would they say is the thing driving you? Not the official answer. Not the one you would give in a church small group. The real one. The thing that gets you out of bed. The thing that shapes what you do with the hours when no one is watching and nothing is on the line. What is the actual engine of your Tuesday?Dead to the World - Part 6: Seek the Things That Are Above
Posted on Monday, June 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
If I asked you to tell me where your mind went in the last hour, what would you say? Not where you wanted it to go. Not where you think it should have gone. Where it actually went. Could you even answer? “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.Dead to the World - Part 5: Our Citizenship Is in Heaven
Posted on Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM
If you have ever felt like you do not quite fit, like you are slightly out of step with the people around you, like the things the world celebrates do not move you the way they are supposed to move you — that is not a sign that something is wrong with you. That is a sign that something is right with you. You are homesick for a country you have not yet seen.Dead to the World - Part 4: Not Conformed, Transformed
Posted on Saturday, June 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
There is a version of the Christian life that sounds like this: “I got saved, and now I try really hard not to do the bad things and do the good things.” And if that is all you have been told, you are going to be exhausted by about Wednesday. The New Testament is clear that something decisive happened at conversion. You were transferred. You died with Christ. You were raised with Him.Dead to the World - Part 3: The Cross Was Not a Reform Movement
Posted on Friday, June 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM
There is a version of Christianity that treats the cross as a rescue mission. You were in trouble, God sent help, you were pulled out. That is not wrong. But it is incomplete. The New Testament picture is more violent than that — and it uses that violence deliberately. Paul does not say you were helped. He says you were crucified. Not metaphorically. Not poetically. With the same word he uses for the actual death of an actual man on an actual cross, he describes what happened to you.Dead to the World - Part 2: The Old Self Was Real
Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
There is a version of you that no longer exists. Not the version you wish you still were — the one who had fewer responsibilities, or more freedom, or less awareness of how hard it is to follow Jesus. No, this version is something more fundamental than that. This is the version of you that was oriented entirely around the world you lived in. The version that had not yet been interrupted by grace.Dead to the World - Part 1: You Have Been Transferred
Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
If you have been following the Forgiveness series this week, you know that we ended with a simple but challenging idea: you have been graced, therefore you are called to extend grace. That is the Christian life in one sentence. But here is what that series did not fully address — and what this new series will: the question of where you actually belong now. Because if you have been forgiven, something bigger has happened to you than just being pardoned.