The Cliché That Proves the Point
"The walls come down" is everywhere in worship music right now. Here's the irony nobody mentions: Jericho is the least repeatable story in the entire Bible. We took the one battle God designed to never happen again and turned it into a formula.
"Whatever It Takes" — The Prayer of a Person Who's Done Negotiating with God
God told Gideon to fight 135,000 soldiers. Then He cut the army by 99%. Gideon said yes anyway. Paul walked away from a perfect résumé. Abraham raised a knife over his own son. This is what prayer looks like once you stop handing God a checklist and start handing Him a blank check.
You're Not Enough — The Lie That Sounds Like Humility and Produces Burnout
You're not smart enough, spiritual enough, talented enough, healed enough, together enough. The voice never stops. And it sounds holy — like humility, like self-awareness, like wisdom. It isn't. It's the lie you've been confusing with the truth, and it's the one that keeps good people stalled at the edge of their calling for decades.