Rooted in Him

27/10/2025

25/10/2025

A Sin that Women Suffer too (But scared to admit)

There’s no more frightening place to sit than alone in the shadows with your sin. The decay of sin’s destruction is not a metaphor. It is real, consuming, and silent. But what if some of our pulpits, in their good intentions, are helping people stay hidden in those shadows?

We talk boldly about total depravity, predestination etc, yet when a pastor addresses “the men’s problem” of po*******hy, the silence in the room deepens for the women who struggle too. The Word exposes all sin without distinction. So why has the church chosen to whisper when women fall into the same bo***ge?

I have read testimonies that carry both pain and redemption. Some women once enslaved to sexual addiction, others scarred by exploitation. Whether through po*******hy, manipulation, or trauma, the wound is the same - sin that shames, isolates, and lies. The world normalizes it; technology like smartphones multiply it. The result? P**n users have not only soared - they’ve left no age group, demographic or gender unharmed.

That said, we must stop assuming po*******hy is a men’s problem because it’s not. IT’S A HUMAN PROBLEM.

“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation, He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13)

In context, Paul is addressing two specific temptations: sexual immorality (1 Corinthians 10:8) and grumbling (1 Corinthians 10:10). Paul calls these sins “common” because they are regular temptations everyone faces. The apostle Paul was not writing to men only. He addressed the whole church. When pastors assume sexual sin belongs to men, they leave half the congregation abandoned in their shame. When the church ignores this sin among women, we WITHHOLD GRACE and HELP from those who need it most. The gospel is not gendered. Christ’s blood does not discriminate.

Jesus met the woman at the well in her shame and confronted her sin, not to condemn her but to redeem her. He said, “Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.” (John 4:14) Grace found her when others avoided her. The same Saviour who restored her still calls women today out of silence into life.

Paul urged the older women in Titus 2:3–5 to teach what is good and to train the younger women to be self-controlled, pure, and reverent. It is time for the elderly women to stand up and help their younger sisters. Silence has never protected the church; truth has.

When a sin is left unspoken, it becomes a fortress for Satan. When pastors avoid uncomfortable topics, sin festers under the cover of decency. BUT WHEN WE MAKE A PARTICULAR SIN TABOO FROM THE PULPIT OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE CHURCH, IT CREATES POCKETS OF DARKNESS WHERE SIN CAN FLOURISH. SHELTERED BY SILENCE AND FED BY SHAME, THE UNADDRESSED SIN DESTROYS LIVES.

“Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.” (Proverbs 28:13)

The Bible never presents confession as weakness but as worship. David said, “When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.” (Psalm 32:3) Hidden sin always kills joy. But when confession breaks forth, mercy flows freely.

Confession in Scripture is never meant to be private isolation but humble restoration. We first confess to God, for only He can forgive sin. David declared, “I acknowledged my sin to You, and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.” (Psalm 32:5) Every sin is ultimately against God, and therefore it must be laid bare before Him in repentance. Yet the Bible also commands, “Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.” (James 5:16)

Sisters, this means your battle is not to be fought in silence. Find mature, godly women who walk in truth and humility, as Titus 2:3–5 instructs. Let them walk with you, pray for you, and remind you of the mercy of Christ. True confession brings both forgiveness and healing - forgiveness from God and healing through His people.

Your shame is not stronger than His mercy. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9) Jesus answers your loneliness with His comfort, your guilt with His righteousness, and your longing with His presence. Come into the light. Confess to the Lord, and find fellowship with those who will lift you up in grace, not in judgment. For those who walk in the light, the blood of Jesus cleanses from all sin. (1 John 1:7)

Pastors and elders, po*******hy is not a male problem. It is a human one. The gospel demands that we speak plainly, teach wisely, and shepherd faithfully. To those who struggle - come into the light. The One who forgave the woman caught in adultery still says, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” (John 8:11)

Church, rise up. Do not let silence protect sin. Do not let shame silence your sisters. Speak truth, extend grace, and bear one another’s burdens, for this is the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2). When the church opens her mouth for the bound and the broken, she reflects her Redeemer - the One who broke our chains and called us into the light.

He, who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Jeremiah Knight

The Reformation Resurgence

22/10/2025

O GOD, Though I am allowed to approach thee I am not unmindful of my sins, I do not deny my guilt, I confess my wickedness, and earnestly plead forgiveness. May I with Moses choose affliction rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin. Help me to place myself always under thy guiding and guardian care, to take firmer hold of the sure covenant that binds me to thee, to feel more of the purifying, dignifying, softening influence of the religion I profess, to have more compassion, love, pity, courtesy, to deem it an honour to be employed by thee as an instrument in thy hands, ready to seize every opportunity of usefulness, and willing to offer all my talents to thy service. Thou hast done for me all things well, hast remembered, distinguished, indulged me. All my desires have not been gratified, but thy love denied them to me when fulfilment of my wishes would have proved my ruin or injury. My trials have been fewer than my sins, and when I have kissed the rod it has fallen from thy hands. Thou hast often wiped away my tears, restored peace to my mourning heart, chastened me for my profit. All thy work for me is perfect, and I praise thee.

-The Valley of Vision

21/10/2025

When the Word Reshapes the Minister

Every man who opens the Scriptures with sincerity soon discovers that THE WORD HE STUDIES BEGINS TO STUDY HIM. At first, he may believe he has found a message to preach, a doctrine to defend, or a truth to share. But as time passes, that same truth begins to dismantle his assumptions, challenge his convictions, and remake his ministry from the inside out. The Word of God is not a tool in the preacher’s hand but the sword that pierces the preacher’s heart first.

The longer one walks in ministry, the more this becomes painfully and beautifully clear. There are passages that seem familiar until one day they refuse to fit within the neat frameworks we built. A verse we have quoted for years suddenly confronts the very system we once used to explain it. That is how the Spirit humbles those who preach. Scripture will never allow itself to be caged by tradition, preference, or denominational comfort. It keeps refining those who dare to handle it.

Ministry rooted in Scripture is not static; it grows as the minister is sanctified. When Paul told Timothy to “preach the Word” (2 Timothy 4:2), he was not calling him to repeat phrases but to allow the Word to continually transform his understanding of truth and ministry. THE MAN OF GOD WHO REMAINS TEACHABLE BEFORE THE BIBLE BECOMES A VESSEL GOD CAN USE. The one who refuses correction from Scripture becomes a monument to pride.

Many ministries begin with zeal but end in stagnation because leaders hold to their methods tighter than the message. They study to defend their systems instead of submitting to the authority of the Word. But true shepherds tremble before the text. They know the church does not shape the Word - the Word shapes the church. Every doctrine, every tradition, and every decision must bow before the authority of Scripture.

The temptation for every minister is to think that after years of teaching, he has arrived. But the man who truly walks with God knows that Scripture continues to unmake him. Every sermon he preaches leaves him more aware of his insufficiency and more in awe of God’s holiness. He learns that being faithful to the text is not about defending what he already knows but about surrendering to what God continues to reveal through it.

So, the question for every preacher and believer alike is simple: when the Word challenges you, do you change, or do you resist? The danger is not in misunderstanding Scripture but in refusing to let it correct us. The Bible is not given to decorate sermons but to dismantle self-confidence.

If the Word of God is truly living and active, it must cut through our preferences until we no longer serve our ideas of ministry but the will of the Master Himself. For the church belongs not to the preacher, not to the people, but to Christ who bought it with His blood.

The measure of a faithful ministry, then, is not how consistent we are to our methods, but how obedient we remain to the Word that keeps reshaping us.

He, who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Jeremiah Knight

The Reformation Resurgence

19/10/2025

The Grace of Being Forgotten

There are seasons when God leads us into quiet corners of life, not to punish us, but to refine our faith. There is a strange beauty in being unseen, misunderstood, and rejected. When the noise fades, when applause ceases, when people who once stood beside us drift away, we begin to taste the kind of dependence that cannot be learned in comfort.

I know what it means to walk that path. Ministry often feels like a long, narrow road lined with silence. There are days when I preach to hearts that seem far away, and nights when I wrestle with questions that have no quick answers. There are moments when the weight of isolation feels unbearable, when the very people who should have stood by are nowhere to be found. And yet, even in that loneliness, there is a lesson that no crowd can teach. It is in that silence that we discover that Christ is enough.

God has a way of stripping us down until all that remains is Him. When Elijah sat under the broom tree, he was not useless - he was being emptied. When Moses tended sheep in Midian, he was not forgotten - he was being shaped. When Paul sat in chains, he was not sidelined - he was being perfected. Every servant of God must learn the art of hiddenness. It is there that pride dies, and grace grows.

When you have no one left to affirm you, you learn to rest in the smile of heaven. When no one claps for your obedience, you find joy in the unseen approval of God. When no one understands your tears, you remember that Christ Himself was “despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3).

In this world, we measure success by visibility. God measures it by faithfulness. The man who preaches unseen in a village is no less valuable than the one speaking before thousands. The woman praying in secret is no less powerful than the one leading a crowd. The kingdom of God does not operate on recognition; it operates on surrender.

Even now, as I walk this narrow road, often in loneliness, I see His mercy in it. The absence of human help has taught me to rely on divine strength. The silence of friends has forced me to listen more closely to the Shepherd’s voice. And the rejection of men has only made me long more deeply for the acceptance found in Christ alone.

If you find yourself unseen, take heart. You are not forgotten but you are being refined. The hidden places are holy ground. The wilderness is not the end of ministry; it is where real ministry begins. God is not punishing you by isolating you; He is preparing you to depend on nothing and no one but Him.

So let us not despise the lonely road. It is there that faith is purified, motives are tested, and grace becomes more than a word - it becomes breath.

“For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10).

He, who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Jeremiah Knight

The Reformation Resurgence

18/10/2025

15/10/2025

"Forgiveness Here, Forgiveness There."

Let's face it. Sometimes, christians are unable to perfectly forgive others. When the words just cut too deep, the actions were just too cruel, the aftermath was just too astronomical to completely let it go. Some words are never said, actions never done, so, the christian is left hanging in a process of silent forgiveness.
Maybe, your paths never cross again.Maybe, deep inside you prefer it that way. At one point, you feel hurt and prefer the distance but later in life, you remember Jesus and his grace for a sinner like you at the cross of Calvary that you come to your senses and just "let it go". Sometimes, you feel your words are unheard and despite your many efforts, you smash into a wall of inattention.
Forgiveness sometimes is given in secret silence because you cannot forgive someone who refuses to admit they are wrong. Forgiveness may come slow because of the immense pain the sorrow has caused and the damage in this life is irreparable.
For some, forgiveness may never come because they simply refuse to acknowledge the need for it in Jesus' name.

However, despite a christian's slow, imperfect, and sometimes non-existent forgiveness, in Heaven, beyond the grave, when the gates of pearls open wide and Jesus stands there face-to-face, believers are free;
Free from the burden of our own sins, free from pain and sorrow. We then have forgiveness full and perfect. It is no longer bound by human fleshly incapability.
When we meet brothers and sisters who caused us to heavily grieve on earth, we are able to perfectly and fully love them. We will be able to bestow mercy and grace without end. We will be able to exist in harmony and peace with them.

We will all be able to say in perfect unity, "Worthy, worthy, worthy, is the Lamb who was slain."

Yes, It is a genuine blessing to see forgiveness amongst brothers and sisters on earth but Oh!, what a sight it will be when it will, one day, unfold perfectly in glory!

15/10/2025

The War for the Image of God

There was a time when children were taught to discern right from wrong. Today they are taught to doubt whether they are even who they are. The confusion that now plagues the youngest among us did not arise from innocence but from indoctrination. It is not a movement of love but a calculated rebellion against the Creator.

God made man in His image - male and female He created them (Genesis 1:27). That is not biology alone; it is theology. Gender is not a social idea; it is divine design. Every attempt to blur, bend, or erase that truth is an act of war against the One who formed us. What began as deception in Eden, “Did God really say?” - is now preached in classrooms and celebrated in law.

Children are NOT born confused about their bodies. THEY ARE MADE CONFUSED. The same adults who claim to protect them are the ones rewriting God’s definitions and calling it compassion. When men play god with the minds of the innocent, they are not reformers but destroyers. Jesus spoke of such men with terrifying clarity: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matthew 18:6).

This is not a political issue. It is spiritual warfare in its purest form - the corruption of innocence and the distortion of the image of God. The devil cannot create, so he perverts. He cannot form life, so he confuses it. His oldest lie was, “You can be like God.” His newest version is, “You can define yourself.” Both come from the same pit.

The so-called “gender revolution” is not liberation but bo***ge. It tells children that peace is found in denying their own design. Yet every surgery, every pronoun, every celebration of self only deepens the wound. Sin always promises freedom but delivers chains. “For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator” (Romans 1:25).

The Church must stop whispering where Scripture shouts. This is not a time for polite dialogue with darkness. To remain silent is to be complicit. The command is clear: “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them” (Ephesians 5:11).

The truth is simple: there is no such thing as being “born in the wrong body.” There are only broken souls who need the right Saviour. Christ does not affirm delusion; He restores identity. He does not tell us to embrace our confusion; He calls us to repentance and renewal. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

This fight is not for politics but for souls… for the hearts of children being groomed to despise the God who made them. We are not merely defending tradition; we are defending creation itself.

And when the world mocks this truth, let it. Truth does not need applause. It stands because God spoke it. And the One who made them male and female will have the final word.

He, who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Jeremiah Knight

The Reformation Resurgence

13/10/2025

The Ancient Lie Wearing New Clothes

Every age believes its heresies are new. They are dressed in modern language, spoken with sophistication, and paraded as progress. But strip away the vocabulary and the technology, and you find the same rebellion that has existed since the Garden - man’s desire to rewrite the Word of God and replace divine revelation with human reason.

There is nothing innovative about error. Heresy is ancient. It has simply learned to update its vocabulary. The serpent’s question, “Has God really said?” (Genesis 3:1), still echoes through pulpits, classrooms, and digital screens. Every false teacher since has repeated that same question in different forms, some with open denial, others with subtle distortion. But the heart of it remains the same: the refusal to let God speak for Himself.

The first heresy was not paganism; it was unbelief. It was man taking God’s clear Word and adding his own interpretation to make it more appealing. Eve did not reject God’s authority outright but she merely redefined what He meant. That is the foundation of all heresy: the attempt to make truth flexible.

From the earliest days of the Church, this pattern has never changed. The Arians denied the full deity of Christ to make God more understandable. The Gnostics reimagined revelation to make Christianity more intellectual. The Pelagians redefined grace to make man more capable. And in every generation since, heresy has reemerged with a fresh coat of paint, appealing to pride and emotion while denying the very truth that saves.

Today, it comes in phrases like “deconstruction,” “inclusive theology,” “progressive Christianity,” and “new revelations of the Spirit.” But underneath those modern labels lies the same old poison. The names are new; the rebellion is not.

Heresy always claims to be forward-thinking. It calls itself enlightened, open-minded, compassionate. Yet in reality, it is simply ancient unbelief repackaged for a new audience. The apostle Paul faced the same spirit when he wrote, “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you... and are turning to a different gospel” (Galatians 1:6).

Every distortion of truth begins with the same arrogant belief that Scripture alone is not enough. False teachers speak of new revelations, deeper insights, and modern understandings. But Scripture is not outdated truth waiting to be upgraded. It is the living Word of God, complete and unchanging. “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever” (Isaiah 40:8).

To call heresy modern is to misunderstand history. Every true reformation in the Church was not an innovation but a return to Scripture, to the gospel, to the authority of Christ over all human opinion. Luther, Calvin, and the Reformers were not inventors of a new theology; they were restorers of old truth. They understood that progress in theology is not moving forward into novelty but backward into fidelity.

The Church is not called to adapt truth to the world but to proclaim truth to the world. The gospel does not evolve because God does not change. His revelation is not subject to cultural revision. Every attempt to make Christianity “fit” into the modern age only proves how little we understand the timelessness of God’s Word.

The heretic and the faithful both claims to serve the same God, but only one bows to His Word. Heresy begins when man stops submitting and starts editing. It thrives wherever Scripture is quoted but not believed, preached but not obeyed, admired but not feared.

Heresy is not creative; it is parasitic. It feeds on truth, twisting what is sacred until it becomes unrecognizable. But it can never destroy the truth. The Word of God has always outlived its critics. Empires have fallen, philosophers have faded, false teachers have perished - yet the gospel remains.

The real tragedy is not that heresies exist, but that the Church forgets they are nothing new. The devil does not need new strategies when the old ones still work.

So when the world praises new theology, remember: there is nothing modern about rebellion. When it calls ancient faith outdated, remember: there is nothing ancient about lies. Truth does not age. Only error does.

The gospel stands today as it did in the first century… unaltered, undefeated, and unmoved. It does not need revision; it demands repentance. And every time heresy rises again, it only proves what Scripture has always said: “The word of the Lord endures forever” (1 Peter 1:25).

He, who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Jeremiah Knight

The Reformation Resurgence