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09/08/2026

Romans 12:2 NLT
"Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think."

Most of us can recognize somebody trying to change our mind. We're much less likely to notice something slowly teaching us what is normal. There's a difference.

An argument makes itself known.
Formation usually doesn't.

It's the voices you hear every day.
The jokes that stop sounding strange.
The anger you repeatedly consume.
The assumptions nobody bothers explaining anymore.
The things everybody around you simply seems to know.

Stay around something long enough... and eventually you can stop asking whether it's true. It just becomes the furniture in the room. Paul understood that. That's why he doesn't simply tell the Christians in Rome to behave differently. He tells them to let God change the way they think, because Jesus isn't only interested in changing what you do.

He wants to transform the place inside you that decides what seems reasonable...
what seems desirable...
what seems frightening...
what seems important...
and even what seems normal.

That's deeper work, and it means discipleship involves paying attention to what is discipling us.

Your phone can disciple you.
Your favorite news source can disciple you.
Your friends can disciple you.
Fear can disciple you.
Success can disciple you.
Your childhood can disciple you.

Even the version of yourself you've spent years trying to protect can disciple you. Anything you repeatedly allow to interpret life for you can begin shaping the way you see it. And here's the uncomfortable part:

You don't have to consciously agree with something for it to begin forming you.
You just have to live around it long enough without examining it.

That's why Paul gives us something better than:
"Try harder not to be influenced."

He says:
Be transformed.
Let God renovate your thinking.
Let Scripture spend enough time inside you that God's ways begin becoming familiar.
Let prayer become more than asking God for things.

Stay near Jesus long enough that His voice becomes recognizable...
and some of the other voices begin sounding strange again.

That's formation.
Not merely knowing the right answers.
Becoming the kind of person whose instincts are increasingly being shaped by Jesus.

So today, pay attention to what enters your mind repeatedly.
Not with fear.
With curiosity.

Ask:
What is teaching me what is normal?
What gets the first word in my morning?
What gets hours of my attention?
Whose approval affects me most?
Which voices consistently make me angrier?
More afraid?
More suspicious?
More self-centered?
And which ones make me more like Jesus?

Then invite the Holy Spirit into that space:
Jesus, retrain my instincts.

Teach me to recognize what sounds like You...
and what doesn't.

Change the way I think until Your Kingdom doesn't feel strange to me anymore.

Until mercy feels normal.
Holiness feels normal.
Generosity feels normal.
Forgiveness feels normal.
Courage feels normal.
Loving my enemies feels normal.
Obedience feels normal.

And following You...
doesn't feel like an interruption to my life.

It becomes the way I live it.

09/08/2026

This is for the one who has spent years needing something you did...
to not be wrong.

Maybe you've explained it.
Defended it.
Found people who agree with you.
Maybe you've changed the words you use for it.
Maybe you've rehearsed the circumstances so many times that you can explain exactly why you did what you did.

And maybe...
under all of that...
there is still this tiny place inside you that you won't let anybody touch.

Because you're afraid of what happens if you finally admit:
I was wrong.
Not misunderstood.
Not merely imperfect.
Wrong.
Maybe deeply wrong.

Because then what?
What do you do with something you can't undo?

You can't go back.
You can't unsay it.
You can't unbetray somebody.
You can't put a family back together exactly the way it was.
You can't recover the years.
You can't resurrect what died because of what you did.
So maybe it feels safer to keep defending it.

But what if you don't have to?
What if the Gospel offers you something infinitely better than proving you were right?

You don't have to make your sin not sin...
in order to be redeemed from what you've done.

Read that again.

You don't have to make your sin not sin...
in order to be redeemed from what you've done.

Jesus already knows.
The whole thing.
And He isn't asking you to rewrite the story.
He's asking you to bring it into the light.
Call it what He calls it.
Put down the exhausting work of defending it.
And discover that the grace of Jesus is bigger, deeper, and wider...
than the thing you've been afraid to name.

Maybe repentance isn't the terrifying moment when everything finally collapses.

Maybe it's the moment you discover...
you don't have to hold the wall up anymore.

09/07/2026

Stop Letting the Culture Interpret the Bible for You

Everyone has a lens.

News.
Politics.
Social media.
Culture.
Our own experiences.

But when something consequential happens, followers of Jesus have to ask a different question:

What does the Word of God say?

The Bible isn't only a mirror that exposes what's happening inside us. It's also the lens through which we learn to see what's happening around us.

The danger begins when we reverse that...

and start using culture to interpret Scripture instead of allowing Scripture to interpret culture.

📖 2 Timothy 3:16-17

From "The Level" in the UNHINDERED series at Beaver Lake Church.

09/07/2026

Today is Labor Day in the United States.

And somewhere, somebody is setting an alarm for a job they are tired of doing.

Somebody's hands hurt.
Somebody's back hurts.
Somebody is wondering how the paycheck disappeared before the month did.
Somebody worked overtime and still came up short.
Somebody spent forty years building something with their hands and now wonders whether anybody remembers.

Somebody punched a clock.
Changed a tire.
Cleaned a room.
Stocked a shelf.
Milked a cow.
Drove a truck.
Fixed a furnace.
Answered a call.
Washed somebody else's dishes.
Crawled underneath something filthy.
Worked another midnight shift while the rest of us slept.

And today, we call it Labor Day.

But there is something I want you to know before we fire up the grills and enjoy the day off:

God saw it.
He saw the work nobody thanked you for.
He saw the mornings you got up when everything in you wanted to stay in bed.
He saw you lace your boots in the dark.
He saw the lunch packed before sunrise.
He saw the grease under your fingernails and the ache you carried home.
He saw the mother whose work never came with a timecard.
He saw the father who took the extra shift because the kids needed shoes.
He saw the farmer praying over ground that hadn't given him anything yet.
He saw the business owner lying awake wondering how to make payroll.
He saw the person who kept showing up after the job stopped feeling meaningful.

And He saw the years.
All of them.

We live in a world obsessed with platforms, titles, influence, followers, recognition and being noticed.

The Kingdom of God has never been particularly impressed by any of that.
Jesus spent most of His earthly life in obscurity.

Before the crowds.
Before the miracles.
Before anyone shouted Hosanna.

There were years of ordinary days in Nazareth.
Wood.
Tools.
Sweat.
Work.

The hands that would eventually be pierced by nails first learned what it was to drive them.

Think about that.
God knows what work feels like.

And Scripture says:
"Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people."
Colossians 3:23

Maybe nobody applauded.
Maybe nobody noticed.
Maybe nobody ever said thank you.

But if you swept the floor...
turned the wrench...
changed the diaper...
drove the route...
worked the field...
built the wall...
cared for the patient...
served the meal...
kept the books...
answered the phone...
or simply kept showing up when quitting would have been easier...

He saw you.

And perhaps one of the great surprises of eternity will be discovering how much Heaven valued things Earth barely noticed.

So, rest if you can.
Eat something good.
Sit outside awhile.
Laugh with somebody you love.
But sometime during the day, look down at your hands.

Whatever those hands have carried...
whatever they have built...
whatever they have cleaned...
whatever they have repaired...
whatever they have planted...
whatever little hand they have held...
remember this:

God prefers to do His most extraordinary work through an ordinary life that's been placed in His hands.

Happy Labor Day from Beaver Lake Church.

To the calloused hands.
The tired backs.
The early alarms.
The late shifts.
The work nobody sees.

God saw it.
And that changes everything.

09/07/2026

Psalm 139:23-24 NLT
"Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life."

There is a dangerous assumption we can carry into prayer without realizing it. We assume the person who needs to change... is probably somebody else.

So we ask God to change our circumstances.
Change somebody's heart.
Change our spouse.
Change our kids.
Change our church.
Change our country.

David prays something much more dangerous:
Change me.
"Search me."

That's an extraordinary prayer because David is giving God permission to show him something David doesn't already see. Think about that.

David isn't saying:
"God, show me where everybody else is wrong."

He isn't even saying:
"God, confirm that I'm right."

He's asking God to examine the places inside him where he might be wrong... and not know it yet. That's spiritual maturity. Not becoming so convinced of everything you believe that nobody can correct you, but becoming so surrendered to Jesus that even you are allowed to be wrong. That's harder than it sounds, because some beliefs have been with us for so long that they don't feel like beliefs anymore. They just feel like reality.

Maybe your parents taught you something when you were eight.
Maybe something painful happened when you were sixteen...
and you've interpreted relationships through it ever since.

Maybe you've heard something repeated for twenty years.
Maybe everybody you respect believes it.
Maybe it's connected to a decision you've already made.
Maybe changing your mind would cost you something.

And eventually...
we can become very good at asking Jesus to lead us...
as long as He keeps taking us where we've already decided to go.

But that's not discipleship. Following Jesus means giving Him permission to contradict me... interrupt me... expose something.

To say:
"You've believed this for thirty years...
but I need you to give it to Me."

And when He does...
that's not rejection.

Look again at the end of David's prayer:
"...and lead me along the path of everlasting life."

Lead me.

The God who searches...
is the God who leads.

He isn't rummaging through your heart looking for something He can use against you. He's looking for anything that is keeping you from walking freely with Him. So here's a prayer to sit with today. Don't rush it. Don't pray it and immediately grab your phone. Give the Holy Spirit some room to answer.

Jesus, is there anything I believe that You need to correct?
Anything about You?
Anything about myself?
Anything about somebody else?
Anything I've learned from my family...
my pain...
my politics...
my church...
my generation...
or my own experiences...
that doesn't actually sound like You?

Search me.
And if You find something...
I give You permission to change my mind.
Because I don't just want Jesus to confirm what I already believe.

I want to follow Him wherever He leads.

09/06/2026

Three children are dead.

Cora.
Dawson.
Callan.

Their mother, Lindsay Clancy, survived and is now paralyzed. And after a jury deadlocked 11-1, her murder trial ended in a mistrial.

The case has ignited a national conversation about postpartum mental illness, motherhood, justice, compassion, responsibility, and human life.

But underneath all of those questions is another one:

Who gets to decide what is right?

This Sunday at Beaver Lake Church, we're interrupting our journey through Acts to open the Bible and consider what this moment may be revealing about us.

What happens when compassion becomes disconnected from truth?

Can sincere people be sincerely wrong?

What happens when our experiences, pain, politics, culture, or ideology become the lens through which we interpret Scripture instead of allowing Scripture to interpret them?

And what happens when God's Word puts the level against something we've believed for years...

and tells us the wall is crooked?

We'll talk honestly about the Lindsay Clancy case, postpartum mental illness, justice, feminism, abortion, cultural formation, Saul's persecution of the early Church, and the danger Isaiah warned about when a culture begins calling evil good and good evil.

This will not be a political stump speech.

It will not be an excuse to throw stones at Lindsay Clancy or anybody else.

We're going to do something much harder:

We're going to put the level against ourselves.

And there is hope.

Because when Saul discovered that he had been catastrophically wrong, Jesus didn't change the level to accommodate Saul.

Jesus changed Saul.

📖 Judges 19:30 • Genesis 3:1 • Isaiah 5:20 • Acts 9:4 • 2 Timothy 3:16-17 • 1 John 1:9

🔴 Join us LIVE from Beaver Lake Church in Lachine, Michigan.

UNHINDERED: The Level

Because you don't have to make your sin not sin in order to be redeemed from what you've done.

09/06/2026

John 15:4-5 NLT
"Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches."

Jesus could have given us a strategy.
Instead...
He gave us a relationship.

"Remain in me."
Stay.

That's interesting because we spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to become more effective Christians.

How do I hear God better?
How do I know His will?
How do I recognize when He's leading me?
How do I become more useful?

Those aren't bad questions. But Jesus seems to take us somewhere deeper. Remain in Me. Maybe the goal isn't to become really good at receiving instructions from Jesus. Maybe the goal is to become so accustomed to living with Him that following Him becomes the ordinary posture of our lives.

Not only during prayer.
Not only at church.
Not only when we need an answer.
With Him while making breakfast.
With Him driving to work.
With Him answering emails.
With Him cutting the grass.
With Him sitting across the table from somebody we love.
With Him when nothing particularly spiritual seems to be happening at all.

Because branches don't strain to receive instructions from vines. They remain connected. And life flows. Maybe that's the kind of discipleship Jesus is inviting us into. Not occasional moments when we finally get quiet enough to ask Him what to do... but lives increasingly lived aware that He is already here.

His Presence becoming familiar.
His voice becoming recognizable.
His heart slowly shaping ours.
Until following Jesus isn't something we occasionally stop our lives to do.

Following Jesus becomes the way we live our lives.

FOR TODAY

Don't add another spiritual assignment to your day.
Instead, choose one completely ordinary thing you're already going to do.

Make coffee.
Drive somewhere.
Fold laundry.
Walk outside.

And while you're doing it...
turn your attention toward Jesus.

No agenda.
Nothing you need Him to tell you.
Just be with Him.

Tomorrow, do it again.
Stay.

09/05/2026

John 5:19 NLT
"So Jesus explained, 'I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.'"

Read that again.

Jesus says:
"He does only what he sees the Father doing."

There's something about the way Jesus moved through ordinary life that I want to learn. Jesus noticed. He noticed Zacchaeus sitting in a tree while everybody else saw a tax collector. He noticed blind Bartimaeus shouting beside the road while everybody else wanted him to be quiet. He noticed a widow putting two small coins into an offering box. He noticed hungry people. Hurting people. People everybody else walked past.

Jesus lived with His attention turned toward the Father. And I wonder how much of what God is doing around us we simply don't notice. We can move through an entire day focused on what we need to accomplish.

Get to work.
Pick up groceries.
Answer the text.
Make dinner.
Finish the project.
Get the kids where they need to go.
Get home.
Go to bed.
Repeat.

None of those things are wrong. But right in the middle of all that ordinary life, God is at work. Maybe spiritual attentiveness doesn't always begin with hearing some dramatic instruction from heaven. Maybe sometimes it begins by slowing down enough to notice.

The coworker who seems quieter than usual.
The cashier who looks exhausted.
The person whose name suddenly comes to mind.
The conversation that keeps going a little longer than you expected.
The interruption you almost dismissed.

You don't have to turn every moment into a ministry project. Just keep your eyes open. Because following Jesus isn't only about knowing what you believe.

It's learning to move through ordinary life with Him.

FOR TODAY

Before you walk into work...
the store...
school...
or wherever today takes you...
pray one simple prayer:
"Father, help me notice what You're doing today."

Then don't spend the day hunting for something spectacular.
Just pay attention.
You might be surprised by what you see.

09/04/2026

Psalm 37:23-24 NLT
"The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the LORD holds them by the hand."

We have an advantage Saul didn't have.
We can turn the page.
We know Tarsus isn't the end of his story.
We know there are cities ahead.

Churches.
Journeys.
Gentiles.
Kings.

We know Saul will eventually become one of the most recognizable names in the history of Christianity. But Saul couldn't turn the page. He could only live the one he was on. Jesus had called him His chosen instrument.

Then Saul preached in Damascus.
People tried to kill him.
He went to Jerusalem.
People tried to kill him there too.

And the believers put him on a boat...
home.
Tarsus.

Luke doesn't tell us what Saul thought about that season. So we shouldn't pretend to know. But there is something here worth noticing. Saul still had to follow Jesus when he couldn't see what came next. So do we.

We love looking backward and discovering how God connected everything. That conversation led to this. That closed door protected me from that. That season prepared me for this one. But it's much harder when you're still standing in the middle of the sentence.

When you don't know what this season is accomplishing.
When something you thought God was doing seems to have gone quiet.
When you know what He said...
but your Tuesday afternoon doesn't look anything like it yet.

Maybe faithfulness isn't always understanding what God is doing. Sometimes it's trusting that Jesus knows where Tarsus is. You don't have to manufacture the next chapter. You don't have to pry open the next door. You don't have to make your life look significant. You only have to walk closely with Jesus on the page you're actually living.

FOR TODAY

Is there an area of your life where you're desperate to know what happens next?
Tell Jesus about it.

Then ask a smaller question:
"Jesus, what does following You look like today?"

You can't turn the page.
But you can trust the One who already knows what's on it.

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