Prayer & Communion

James links confession to healing in the same sentence. The connection is not incidental. It is structural.

A command that feels impossible — which is the clue that we have misunderstood what Paul means by 'rejoice.'

Every phrase is a minor bomb. Say it slowly and it rearranges what you thought you were asking for.

Paul writes about anxiety from Roman prison. What he offers is not comfort. It is a reordering of what peace even means when circumstances refuse to change.

Spoken to a prophet in a dungeon during a siege. The 'great and hidden things' are not abstractions. They are the specific mercies a collapsing nation cannot yet see.

Three verbs in escalating intensity. Not a formula for getting what you want. A description of what faith actually does when it is serious.