The Story A few years back there was a video making the rounds on social media. A guy stood on the street and offered people a choice between a Hershey bar and a one ounce silver coin. Most of them took the chocolate. Some picked up the coin, looked it over, put it back in his hand, and grabbed the candy. Silver is trading around $60 an ounce now, and I’m sure the results would be the same today. Why? Because the candy bar was something they could see, touch, and eat right then. What

The Story I dealt with this firsthand back when I was working discipline on an elementary campus, which is not why I got into education. I brought a mother in, sat her down, and showed her actual video of her son doing exactly what she swore he never did. She watched the whole thing. And she still told me it wasn’t her kid. That’s not confusion. That’s delusion, refusing to believe something that’s staring you right in the face. Scripture shows that same pattern on a national scale. The Israelites had just watched ten plagues

The Story Picture the prodigal son standing in a stranger’s field, staring at the slop he’s feeding pigs, hungry enough that it’s starting to look appetizing. Luke tells us that’s the moment something in him finally clicks. He didn’t wake up broke overnight. He asked his father for his inheritance, packed his bags, and spent it a little at a time until there was nothing left. The famine wasn’t the beginning of his trouble. It was just the moment he could no longer ignore it and came to his senses. That same phrase, coming to

The Story David wanted to build God a house. He was king. He had the resources, the authority, and the heart for it. And God told him no. Not because David lacked devotion. David was a man of war. He had spent his whole life as a warrior, fighting off every nation that pressed in against Israel. God told him plainly, you have shed too much blood and waged too many wars. The house that would carry my name has to be built by a man of peace. That man would be Solomon. Look at