When the World Shakes: Anchoring Your Soul in the Unchanging Goodness of God If you feel like the ground beneath you has been vibrating lately, you are not alone. As we close out 2025 and look toward 2026, the prevailing cultural mood isn't one of optimistic resolution—it’s one of low-grade anxiety. We see it in global instability, we feel it in the deep divisions fracturing major church denominations, and we experience it in the economic and personal pressures of daily life. The writer of Hebrews spoke of a time when God would "shake not only the earth but also the heavens," so that "what cannot be shaken may remain" (Hebrews 12:26-27). It feels like we are living through a great shaking right now. In times like these, the most difficult—yet most vital—question a Christian can ask is: Is God still good? The world’s answer is "no." The skeptic’s answer is "if He is, He isn't very competent." But the biblical answer is a resounding ...
I've been watching this series, The Chosen, now on its 3rd season, and each episode has not failed to hit hard on my heart. I can describe myself as someone who society has hardened and I didn't cry for more than 10 years as everything was just numb and empty. I felt nothing for anyone or for anything. The first episode of Season 1 which I watched because I had nothing else to watch completely melted whatever hardened my heart and each episode has been a tear jerker ever since. The Chosen series had resuscitated my faith, it brings the gospels alive to me. The apostles weren't one dimensioned saintly people, they were ordinary people like us who have many imperfections and have many struggles. Fast forward to December 2022 and The Chosen had just released their second episode and this hit the hardest so far because it deals with sickness and healing. I have the experience of having a loved one deal with pain and suffering through sickness...