Two Movements and Eleven Reflections and on God’s Nearness and Care MOVEMENT 1 Before we ask what God is doing in our lives, Scripture invites us to notice where God already is. Long before understanding forms, before clarity arrives, before answers take shape, God is present. Psalm one hundred thirty nine does not begin with …
The Joy of Seeing Life Through Creative Phrases Six Reflection Collection 2025 Edition Table of Contents Author’s Note Reflection One: Awareness of Grace Reflection Two: The Love Child of an Idealist and a Pragmatist Reflection Three: When Formation Meets Faithfulness Reflection Four When Vision Meets the Ordinary Reflection Five: A Conceptual and Biblical Lineage of …
When the foundation of truth is dismissed, the architecture of meaning begins to fail. The story of Babel isn’t just ancient history—it’s prophetically retold and repeated in every generation that tries to build without God. The builders at Babel weren’t villains. They were visionaries. They longed for greatness, unity, and permanence. But they believed the …
The Babel Within: What Happens When We Build Without Truth by Ron Randle October 6, 2025 When the foundation of truth is dismissed, the architecture of meaning begins to fail. The story of Babel isn’t just ancient history—it’s prophetically retold and repeated in every generation that tries to build without God. The builders at Babel …
When Grace Gets Replaced Why I No Longer Call Myself An “Evangelical” By Ron Randle From Ron’s Journal — October 5, 2026 Recently, I was invited to join a panel discussing what “evangelicals” think about the Israel and Gaza war. There were eleven of us, which is a minyan in Judaism, the quorum needed to …
Introduction We are all being formed by something. Family, culture, success, failure, and unseen wounds quietly shape how we see ourselves, God, and others. Formation is not only something that happened to us long ago. It is ongoing, active, and often unexamined. The good news of the gospel is that formation is not final. In …
I have wrestled with injustice for most of my life, and I am still learning what it means to live in the freedom Jesus names in John 8. Freedom, as He describes it, is not simply release from restraint. It is releasing faulty sight. “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” …
What Sustains the Church Today? Prologue We live in a time of great contradiction—where churches grow in number but not in depth. Where platforms multiply while character erodes. What follows is not just a critique but a call—a return to the truth that forms, the character that sustains, and the Christ who still beckons: ‘Follow …