Bonfire Thoughts
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Short reflections on the things that matter — friendship, discipleship, hard work, grace. Born from daily reading, written around the fire.
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Blessing Redefined
Psalm 1:3
Psalm 1 opens with a shout of happiness — but that happiness is rooted in something most of us overlook. It begins not with what we do, but with where we stand.
Read →Who Is This Jesus?
Matthew 1:21
Matthew gives Jesus two names in a single breath. Read them in the right order and you find the whole gospel — an identity that grounds a mission, and a desire that runs through the entire story of Scripture.
Read →Watch and Pray
Mark 14:38
Jesus's command in Gethsemane was not simply "stay awake" — it was "pray." Prayer is not preparation for the spiritual battle; it is the battle itself, the act of turning from self-reliance to the One who keeps us standing.
Read →Whenever You Stand Praying, Forgive
Mark 11:24-25
Jesus does not schedule forgiveness after prayer. He folds it into the posture itself — open hands before God, open hands toward men.
Read →From Five Bookmarks to a Reading System: How Daily Dependence Came Together
Proverbs 22:6
I could not stick to a Bible reading plan. I tried. I would start January with good intentions, fall behind by February, and quietly abandon it before March. This happened more times than I want to admit. Then the conviction came again — only this time it settled differently.
Read →What are you willing to leave behind?
Mark 10:17-31, 46-52
Two men meet Jesus in Mark 10. One has everything and walks away grieving. One has nothing and follows without hesitation. The difference wasn't devotion or moral record — it was what each man was willing to see, and what each was willing to leave behind.
Read →What this is
Not a sermon. Not a blog post.
A Bonfire Thought is shorter than that. It's the kind of thing you say around a fire late at night — one idea, taken seriously, followed wherever it leads. It might be about friendship, or what hard work actually means, or why suffering doesn't have the last word.
Most of them start in the daily reading. Something catches — a phrase, a contrast, a question the text refuses to answer neatly — and it becomes a thought worth writing down.
They're not exhaustive. They're not polished theology. They're honest, and they point somewhere real.
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