Pastor Eve Mercie 
The path of the righteous is not the easiest. It is the one that holds. Proverbs 4:18 describes it as the shining light that grows brighter as the day progresses. The trajectory is upward, the direction is forward, and the light increases rather than fading. This is the distinctive feature of the righteous man’s path: … Read more
Discouragement is not a character flaw. It is the honest response of a person who has been working, waiting, or believing for long enough that the gap between what they hoped for and what they are experiencing has become hard to carry. Everyone who has ever attempted anything significant has experienced it. The work that … Read more
The question of whether we will know each other in heaven is one of the most personal questions in theology. It is not an abstract doctrinal question for the person who has recently lost someone they loved. It is the question that sits at the edge of every grief: will I see them again? Not … Read more
The hardest thing about God’s timing is that it does not consult yours. You have a sense of when something should happen. You have assessed the situation, identified the need, prayed about it, done what you believe you were supposed to do, and arrived at what feels like a reasonable expected arrival time for the … Read more
Forgiveness and forgetting are not the same thing. And treating them as though they are has caused enormous confusion and unnecessary harm. The popular phrase “forgive and forget” implies that genuine forgiveness requires the erasure of memory, that if you still remember what happened, then you have not truly forgiven. This creates an impossible standard … Read more
Biblical leadership begins with the most disorienting inversion in the New Testament: the greatest among you shall be your servant. This is the structural redefinition of what leadership is in the kingdom of God. The culture around Jesus ranked leaders by how many people served them. Jesus ranked them by how many people they served. … Read more
A genuine apology is one of the hardest things a person can offer, and one of the most necessary. It is hard because it requires the open admission that you were wrong. Not that circumstances were difficult, not that both sides had a part to play, not that you could have done better but anyone … Read more
Most catastrophic decisions have something in common: they were made alone. Not necessarily in isolation, but without the kind of input that would have named what the person making the decision was too close to see. The business partner who seemed trustworthy but had a track record someone else could have checked. The relationship that … Read more
Summer is the season that makes the theology of creation impossible to ignore. It arrives with everything turned up. Longer days, more light, heat that is felt rather than theorized, the full visibility of what was planted in spring. The garden that was bare ground in April is producing in July. The sky stays lit … Read more
Sadness is not a spiritual failure. It is one of the most human things a person can experience, and Scripture treats it that way. The psalms are the most emotionally honest literature in the Bible, and they are saturated with sadness. My soul is cast down. I am utterly bowed down. I am weary with … Read more