Pastor Eve Mercie

A sister is one of the first relationships that teaches you what love actually costs. She is there before you choose your friends, before you have any say in who shares your life. She sees you before you have constructed a public version of yourself. She knows the household you came from, the parents who … Read more

Commitment is the decision made once that governs a thousand smaller decisions afterward. The person who commits to marriage makes a single decision that governs what they do when the marriage is difficult, when an attractive alternative presents itself, when the cost is higher than they anticipated, and when the feelings that accompanied the original … Read more

“Only God can judge me” is a phrase that gets used in two very different ways. In popular culture, it is often a deflection, a way of shutting down accountability by invoking a divine court that seems conveniently distant. The person who says it is usually trying to insulate themselves from human correction, criticism, or … Read more

This is a post worth approaching honestly, because the feeling behind it is more common than most Christians admit. There is a growing number of people, including sincere believers, who find it easier to love animals than to love certain human beings. Dogs do not betray you. Cats do not gossip about you. Animals do … Read more

Pruning hurts because it is supposed to. That is the part most people want to skip past. They want the fruit without the cutting, the growth without the process that makes the growth possible, the abundant life without the season where the vinedresser is removing things that feel like they should stay. But any gardener … Read more

There are two kinds of condemnation in Scripture, and confusing them is one of the most spiritually damaging mistakes a person can make. The first is divine condemnation: the just verdict of a holy God against sin, the sentence that every human being born into a broken world deserves because of the nature they inherited … Read more

The relationship between a mother and a daughter is unlike any other human relationship. It carries the weight of the first love, the tension of generational difference, the complicated dynamics of a woman trying to shape a younger woman who is becoming her own person. It is a relationship that can produce deep security or … Read more

Revival is not a church program. It is an act of God. The distinction matters because the language of revival has been attached to so many human productions, marketing campaigns, and scheduled events that the word has lost much of its original weight. A revival in the biblical and historical sense is not something you … Read more

A prudent wife is not a passive wife. That is one of the most important distinctions to establish before looking at what Scripture actually says. The biblical portrait of a wise and prudent woman is not the portrait of someone who disappears quietly into the background of her husband’s life. It is the portrait of … Read more

The Bible is not a comfortable book. It was never meant to be. Alongside its promises of peace, its declarations of love, and its visions of restoration, Scripture contains deeply unsettling passages, passages about divine wrath, human depravity, the suffering of the innocent, and the terrifying holiness of a God who does not domesticate easily. … Read more