Welcome to The Light.
A pastor of one of America's fastest-growing congregations is sounding a quiet alarm. Philip Anthony Mitchell warns that biblical illiteracy has reshaped faith for a generation drawn to spirituality but drifting from Scripture, trading a demanding gospel for something softer, more comfortable, and perhaps less true.
That tension between conviction and cost echoes in the story of actor David Henrie, who says embracing Christianity in Hollywood meant losing nearly everyone around him. His inner circle dissolved. New friendships eventually came, but only after he had walked through a particular kind of loneliness that belief sometimes asks of us.
And then there is T.D. Jakes, fifty years into ministry, listening to old sermons and hearing not just what he said, but what he had to survive to say it. He told his congregation that certainty can become its own danger, that the place where faith is truly born is not in the answer, but in the trembling space before it arrives.
That is this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
