Subscriber Update: The Spirit Said

Follow Jesus with Your Heart

When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth, for He will not speak on His own authority. Jn 16:13

This has been a hard week.

I am in a season of patience, recovery, and sabbatical. That is not a pause born of confusion, but a deliberate refusal to hurry what cannot be rushed. Being “in between” is uncomfortable, especially in a world that treats motion as virtue and waiting as failure. Yet there are times when the only faithful next step is to remain where you are until others are ready to meet you in truth.

Waiting upon Jesus Christ is not passivity. It is an active entrusting of outcomes to hands stronger than our own. When every move risks being misread or used against you, wisdom eventually calls you out of the noise altogether. Stepping back is not retreat; it is clarity.

Some things cannot be explained without falling into traps of over-disclosure or self-defense. Understanding every detail is less important than accepting where you are: within the Kingdom, under the care of the Good Shepherd, planted with good seed that is still growing.

In the coming weeks, at least one thing will become clearer. Until then, this is a season of trust.

Thank you for trusting me. Thank you to those who continue to read, support, and walk alongside me financially. Thank you for liking my posts, leaving comments for me to engage you, and learning with me that patience and encouragement matter more to the fellowship of the saints than all the success in the world.

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A New Day at the Hebron Collegium

A few weeks ago, I said that we would keep building the Hebron Collegium, a retreat center and Christian hostel committed to men helping men help men. That conviction remains. What has changed is my role.

One of the gifts of spending some of this sabbatical season living briefly at the Collegium has been insight into both the house’s current needs and my own capacity to meet them. What is clear is that work has grown beyond my capacity to direct it, and that is a good thing. Growth signals the project’s maturation.

For this reason, I have asked Titus Berndt, a young man who has been involved with the Collegium from its earliest days, to step in as Overseer. He carries into this task both the history of the work and the energy to take it forward. I trust him to steward what has been built and to press it toward its next level of formation and impact.

Please come and visit. We are well positioned financially thanks to those of you who have financially committed to us over the last three years. Your ongoing support of Dark Shore NFP only ensures further that the Collegium will be here for the next men who need fraternity in these inverted times. Our Father in heaven is the one who makes all men brothers, and that brotherhood in Jesus Christ is a pearl priceless beyond measure.

For the near future, it is my intention to stay on in my role as chair of the board and to continue living next door as support staff, financial administration and institutional memory anchor. I remain committed to the long arc and structural integrity of the mission, while Titus already has jumped into carrying the day-to-day leadership on the ground: the Teepee, the Chapel and the new library arrangement are wonders for this tired soul to behold.

The best way to follow what unfolds next to stay connected is to follow the Collegium channel on Instagram.

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