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🌄 Curious Pilgrim — Part 2
God Is Love: A Different Starting Point A Reflection on Holiness, Love, and the God I Was Taught The God I Was Taught In Systematic Theology and Bible Ethics at Free Will Baptist Bible College, I was taught about the attributes of God. God is: And beyond those: But among all these attributes, one stood…
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When Brutality Breaks Through: A Lesson I Was Not Ready For
There are moments in life when something we read does not simply inform us—it shakes us. When I was a student at Free Will Baptist Bible College, Dr. Simpson assigned each of us a book to read for English Composition. Because I was from Mississippi, she suggested I read Sanctuary by William Faulkner. At seventeen,…
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Born Guilty… or Becoming Human?
Curious Pilgrim — Part 1 A Reflection on Sin, Choice, and the Journey of Becoming Introduction All my life, I have lived with a quiet tension. The tension between what I was taught…and what I have experienced.Between Scripture, tradition, reason, and the life I have actually lived. I remember sitting in Systematic Theology classes, listening…
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The Curious Pilgrim
Is Truth in the Eye of the Beholder? A Signature Reflection on Epistle to the Romans 7:13–25 🌅 Opening: A Question That Will Not Let Me Go There are questions that come and go…and then there are questions that stay with you. This is one that has walked with me most of my life: Is…
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🌿 The Older I Get: Becoming Whole in a Fragmented World
There are some songs that entertain us.Some that stir memories.And then there are songs that quietly sit beside us and say, “This… this is what life is really about.” “The Older I Get” by Alan Jackson is one of those songs. It doesn’t shout.It doesn’t preach.It simply reflects. And in that reflection, it reveals something…
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✨ The Curious Pilgrim
“Dominion, Voice, and the Gift: Rethinking Sin and Righteousness” 📖 Today’s Readings 🌿 A Pilgrim’s Question Today’s readings pull us into a tension many of us have felt: What is sin… really? And who decides? You named the struggle honestly: And yet, Romans 6 speaks with clarity and weight: So how do we make sense…
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🌿 The Curious Pilgrim
Covenant, Baptism, and the Struggle to Live Free 📖 Daily Office Readings Psalm 95 • Jeremiah 11:1–8, 14–20 • Romans 6:1–11 • John 8:33–47 🎶 A Call to Begin: Singing Before Understanding “Come, let us sing to the Lord…” The day begins not with answers—but with worship. Before theology, before doctrine, before trying to figure…
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The Curious Pilgrim — Daily Office Reflection
Truth That Sets Us FreePsalm 42 · Jeremiah 10:11–24 · Romans 5:12–21 · John 8:21–32 A Soul That Longs for What Is Real “As the deer longs for the water brooks,so longs my soul for you, O God.” — Psalm 42 There is something deep within us that knows when life is not aligned with…
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The Curious Pilgrim — When Suffering Speaks: Mercy, Truth, and the Way of Peace
Opening Reflection There are moments in life when suffering feels like an interruption—something that should not be. We resist it, question it, and often try to explain it away. Yet the Scriptures for today—Psalm 85, Isaiah 52:7–12, and Hebrews 2:5–10—do not avoid suffering. Instead, they place it at the very center of God’s redemptive story.…
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🌿 The Fine Line, The Narrow Way, and the Fruit We Bear
A Curious Pilgrim Reflection on the Life We Are Choosing 🎵 Listening for Truth in Unexpected Places There are moments when truth comes to us not only through Scripture, but through a song, a memory, or a quiet stirring within. When Wayne Watson sings about “The Fine Line,” I hear the reality that life is…
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