How You Can Know

Assurance of salvation is one of those things people assume you either have or you do not. And then something happens at two in the morning and you discover it is not nearly as settled as you thought.THE NIGHTS DAN STOPPED BEING SURE My friend Dan Green has walked with the Lord for decades. He has

Continue Listening or reading

Dan’s Story, Part Five: It’s Gonna Be All Right

Doubting your salvation is not something most people admit to, and it is almost never talked about from a pulpit. This final episode with Dan Green is about two months of exactly that – and about what brought him out the other side.IF YOU HAVE BEEN DOUBTING YOUR SALVATION, READ THIS FIRST Dan has never been

Continue Listening or reading

Building Faith Before You Need It

Building faith before you need it is not something most of us think about. We tend to reach for God when the ground gives way, not while we are standing on it. But this week I heard something that has not left me alone since. HE ALREADY KNEW WHERE TO TAKE ITMy friend Dan Green

Continue Listening or reading

Dan’s Story, Part One: I Had No Idea I Even Had Cancer

God is working behind the scenes long before any of us notice. That is the thread running all the way through this first episode with my friend Dan Green, and by the end of it I think you will see it as clearly as I did. Dan is two years into a stage four diagnosis. He

Continue Listening or reading

The Ordinary Years That Were Not Ordinary at All

How God prepares us for hard times is almost never obvious while it is happening. In fact, most of the time it looks like nothing at all. It looks like a job. A season. A few ordinary years you would not think to write down anywhere. This week on the podcast, our guest Brittany Plourde told

Continue Listening or reading

The Season You Could Not Feel Him — And He Was There the Whole Time

When God feels distant during cancer, most of us quietly land on one of two conclusions. Either He has walked away from us… or we have done something to push Him away. However, I want to offer you a third possibility tonight. And I believe it is the true one. He is right there. You just

Continue Listening or reading

Brittany’s Story, Part One: I’ve Got This

Weak faith during cancer is something almost none of us want to admit out loud. However, that is exactly why I wanted you to hear this conversation. In this episode, my friend Brittany Plourde takes us all the way back to 2018 and her very first cancer diagnosis. And she is remarkably honest about where

Continue Listening or reading

Faith Through Prostate Cancer — Doug’s Story of Not Walking Alone

Today I get to introduce you to my friend Doug DeFouw, and his story of faith through prostate cancer is one of the most honest conversations I have had on this podcast. Doug did not clean it up for us. He told me about the anger, the isolation, and the years he spent trying to

Continue Listening or reading

Faith and Fear During Cancer: You’re Not Failing

If you’re a believer walking through cancer and you still feel afraid, let me say something it took me too long to learn: that fear does not mean your faith is failing. Faith and fear during cancer can live in the same heart at the same time — and God is not disappointed in you

Continue Listening or reading

Surrendering to God During Cancer: The Bravest Thing You Can Do

Everything in you wants to fight. To control. To manage every scan, every appointment, every possible outcome. I know, because that was me. But somewhere along my cancer journey, I discovered that surrendering to God during cancer wasn’t the white flag I feared — it was the doorway to the only peace that held when

Continue Listening or reading