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06/06/2026

𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴.

And so have most of us.

Better behavior equals more love from God. Fall back into old patterns — feel the distance grow. Clean up your act — feel Him get closer.

It sounds right. It feels right.

It's completely wrong.

God loved you supremely and perfectly at your 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 moment.

Not the version of you that showed up to church this morning. The version of you that you can barely forgive yourself for being. The moment you are most ashamed of — the thing you've done that if someone else had done it, you would have thought less of them.

God's love was fully present in that moment.

Not despite it. 𝗜𝗻 𝗶𝘁.

And here's why that matters more than you think —

There are things God has for you that you haven't moved into yet. Sacrifices you keep avoiding. Steps of faith that still feel too costly. A life you've been holding back from.

Not because you don't believe in God.

But because it hasn't broken your heart yet — how much He loves you.

When it finally does —

it won't just change what you believe. It will take the wind from your lungs. It will make you say —

"𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙢𝙚? 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚."

And for those who have never accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior —

He had your salvation pre-planned before you knew you needed it.

He loves you more than any person ever could.

That love is not waiting for you to deserve it.

It is waiting for you to receive it.

"𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙪𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙪𝙨." — Romans 5:8 (CSB)

06/06/2026

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06/05/2026

"𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁."
- Austin Bazil | Cross the Line Church - Lincoln, NE

"But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." — Romans 5:8 (CSB)

06/04/2026

𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘.

That's 𝟑𝟔,𝟕𝟎𝟔 people who said yes to Jesus.
36,706 moments someone went under the water and came back up new.
36,706 families changed.
36,706 eternities redirected.

And here's what makes it even more remarkable —

At Mt. Gilead Church in Indiana, over 40% of those baptisms were performed by non-staff members.
At Sherwood Oaks Christian Church, 80% were done by everyday believers.
At Rise Christian Church in Ohio, 88 different people baptized 134 others.

Not the pastor. Not the staff.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆.

This is what the church was always supposed to look like.
Every member a minister.
Every believer a witness.
Every ordinary person capable of being the hands that bring someone into the family of God.

You don't need a title to change someone's eternity.

36,706 times last year — somebody proved that.

The church is not dying.
The church is baptizing.

And this — this is worth celebrating.

Acts 2:41 — "Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day."

1 Peter 2:9 — "You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation."

#36706

Read the full blog written by Kent Fillinger

06/04/2026

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06/03/2026

This one is for the pastor of the church nobody's heard of.

The one who preaches every Sunday to 40 people in a town of 300. The one who hasn't seen a baptism in two years but keeps showing up. The one who drives an hour each way to lead a Bible study for six elderly saints.

The volunteer who sets up chairs before anyone arrives and folds them after everyone leaves.

The missionary in an unplowed field where the ground is hard and the harvest feels far away.

Hear this today —

"A great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb." — Revelation 7:9 (CSB)

Your congregation may be small. Your audience may be quiet. Your name may never trend anywhere.

But you are not serving a small kingdom.

You are part of something so wide, so long, so high, so deep — that eternity itself cannot contain it.

"...to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." — Ephesians 3:19 (CSB)

Don't you dare measure your faithfulness by applause.

Read the full blog written by David Faust

06/02/2026

In 1980, a 21-year-old youth pastor walked into a hospital room in Houston.

He didn't have much experience.
No theology of suffering polished by decades of ministry.
No practiced words for moments like this.

Just a name on a piece of paper and a room number from the receptionist.

What he found when he walked through that door stopped him in ways he couldn't fully explain.

A young man with leukemia.
His pregnant wife.
His parents.
A baby due in two months.
A marriage not yet two years old.
And a heaviness in the air that had no name — only weight.

He stayed 30 minutes.
Prayed with them.
And left.

But he never really left that room.

That heaviness followed him.
Not just for the rest of that day.
For the rest of his life.

It followed him into every sermon he ever wrote.
Every pulpit he ever stood behind.
Every word he ever chose.
Every Sunday morning he looked out at a congregation and remembered —

Someone in this room is carrying something I cannot see.

That's the thing about Sunday mornings nobody talks about enough.

The person with the biggest smile may be holding the heaviest secret.
The family that looks like they have it all together may be one week away from falling apart.
The man in the back row who came for the first time may have come because he had nowhere else left to go.

Preaching was never meant to be a performance for the put-together.
It was always meant to be a lifeline for the brokenhearted.

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit."
— Psalm 34:18

If that verse reflects the heart of God —
it should reflect ours too.

Not just in what we say.
But in how we say it.
The tone we carry.
The eyes we preach with.
The gentleness we refuse to trade for applause.

When we stand to speak in His name —
we don't just deliver the words of God.

We are called to reflect the heart of God.

And the heart of God —
has always been closest
to the ones the world overlooks.

Preach to those people.
Every time.
Without exception.

Because that hospital room?
It's in your congregation every single Sunday.

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By Chris Philbeck

06/01/2026

𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆.

And if we're honest — Christians are some of the worst at it.

But here's the thing. If you've given your life to Jesus, you have every reason to be thankful 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀.

Good situation or bad. Loving family or broken one. Healthy or hurting.

If you're a believer, you are part of the family of God. And your first job — before anything else — is to be thankful.

Why?

Because as Jesus walked toward the cross, knowing what was coming — His mind was on 𝘆𝗼𝘂. On your salvation. On bringing you home.

That's not a small thing. That's everything.

We're very good at accepting salvation.
We're not very good at living like we have it.

Start there today. Just thankful.

"𝙂𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙂𝙤𝙙'𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙅𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙨." — 1 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 5:18 (𝗖𝗦𝗕)