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06/01/2026

Nobody thinks they’re the one holding the stone.

We think we’re being accountable. Holding the line. Telling the truth. And sometimes we are. But a lot of what we call accountability is just condemnation we feel good about.

Accountability wants the person back. Condemnation wants them gone. One restores. One destroys. We’ve gotten good at confusing the two.

Watch your own reflex the next time somebody messes up. Before you know the whole story, before you even decide to, your hand’s already on a rock. And it feels like justice.

Here’s what gets me: I can quote mercy all day. I forget how to practice it the second I’m the one holding the stone.

So before you throw — before the screenshot, the subtweet, the pile-on — one honest question: Am I trying to restore this person, or just trying to win?

The only one who ever had the right to throw knelt down and wrote in the dirt instead.
I’ve thrown mine. More than I’d like to admit.

I’m just trying to be the one who drops it first.

The full essay — the history, the Greek, the one word that only appears once in the entire New Testament — is live at imjustdex.com.

Link in bio.
WORDS №007 · The Stone You’re Holding

You’ve been ministering for years.You just didn’t have the word for it.Maybe yours is praying before the doors open.Or r...
05/27/2026

You’ve been ministering for years.
You just didn’t have the word for it.

Maybe yours is praying before the doors open.
Or running the building so someone else can preach.
Or showing up to the hospital when no one’s watching.
Or teaching the kids nobody thanks.

Not “almost ministry.” THE ministry.

Four times in Ephesians 4: SOME.
Some, apostles. Some, prophets. Some, evangelists. Some, pastors and teachers.
Not all. Some.

If yours has never looked like anyone else’s — that’s not a disqualification. That’s the assignment.

Pick yours.
Drop the word in the comments.
Someone scrolling needs to read theirs back too.

The 13-minute version is in bio.

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SOME · Words № 011

What you’re walking through isn’t a punishment.I know how hard that is to hear in the middle of it. When the suffering s...
05/14/2026

What you’re walking through isn’t a punishment.

I know how hard that is to hear in the middle of it. When the suffering shows up and the quiet voice asks if you did something to deserve this. If you’d been more faithful. If God is finally making you pay.

The text says no.

I read Job for the first time — really read it, not the patience-of-Job line you grew up on — during a year of long-distance. My wife was on FaceTime two thousand miles away, grieving things no explanation was going to cover. We expected a book about patience. We got a man who screamed at God and got called righteous for it.

If you’re in your own Job season — diagnosis you can’t explain, wait that won’t end, faith you didn’t expect to still be carrying — this one’s for you.

It’s not the tidy version. There isn’t one.

Read it anyway.

“The Theology of Staying on the Call.” Live now → link in bio.

The danger of being the good kid is that you learn to protect the image long before you learn to tell the truth.I’m stil...
05/11/2026

The danger of being the good kid is that you learn to protect the image long before you learn to tell the truth.

I’m still working on the second one. Years late, if we’re being honest.

When I was 17, my mother caught me with four ounces of liquor — tops — like I was popping bottles at a release party. The bottle wasn’t the problem. The gap was. Between who they thought I was and who I’d been all along.

The night the rooms collided wasn’t my worst night. It was my first honest one. I didn’t know that yet. Wouldn’t have believed you if you’d said it out loud.

Which is what keeps bringing me back to Manasseh. Worst king Judah ever had. 55 years on the throne. By every biblical measure, the man should have closed his own book in the dark — and 2 Chronicles 33 just won’t let him.

My four ounces aren’t Manasseh’s body count. The magnitudes don’t compare. The geometry does.

Mercy isn’t the refusal to punish. It’s the refusal to let punishment become the whole story.

Eight slides → full essay in bio.

Somebody fell publicly.I opened the comments expecting grief to make people careful.It didn’t.The loudest voices weren’t...
04/30/2026

Somebody fell publicly.

I opened the comments expecting grief to make people careful.

It didn’t.

The loudest voices weren’t strangers.

They were believers.

Not because accountability is wrong.

Harm should be named.
People should be protected.

But outrage knows how to dress itself up as discernment.

Eight slides.

A courtyard.
A comment section.
A mirror.

I’ve held stones.
I’ve wanted witnesses.
I’ve called it wisdom.

Be honest: did you want them healed, or did you want to be seen holding the right stone?

Full essay — The Stone You’re Holding — on imjustdex.com.

If you grew up near a pulpit and got measured for resemblance before anyone asked who you were, this one’s for you.The c...
04/23/2026

If you grew up near a pulpit and got measured for resemblance before anyone asked who you were, this one’s for you.

The carousel carries the argument. The full piece carries the things it couldn’t.

The two times I preached as a kid.
The pandemic years when digital ministry stopped feeling secondary.
The Greek in Matthew 28.
The Parker Palmer line that helped me name the distinction.

This one sat in me for years before I could write it plainly.

imjustdex.com/words/pulpit

Right where I belong… in your arms. Grateful for your love, your strength, and every moment we get to grow together. Ha...
02/15/2026

Right where I belong… in your arms.
Grateful for your love, your strength, and every moment we get to grow together. Happy Valentine's Day! 🫶🏾

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