LightHouse Church

08/23/2026

Sword time.

Imagine this scene for a moment.

It’s fictional.

Jesus has just finished teaching.

Some people listened. Some walked away. A few whispered to each other. One man rolled his eyes. Another didn’t even acknowledge Him.

Jesus watches them leave.

Then He sits down.

Peter notices something is wrong.

“Lord, what is it?”

Jesus sighs.

“I don’t think they like Me.”

Peter looks confused.

Jesus continues.

“I saw the way that man looked at Me. And those people over there didn’t even come speak to Me when I finished teaching. I’ve been wondering if maybe I said something wrong.”

Peter doesn’t know what to say.

Jesus keeps going.

“Maybe I should’ve been funnier. Maybe I came across too strong. Maybe they’d like Me better if I acted differently.”

Then Jesus begins replaying every interaction.

Why didn’t they invite Me?

Why didn’t they thank Me?

Why did they talk to John but not Me?

Did you see the way she looked at Me?

Maybe they don’t want Me around.

And before long, Jesus is so consumed with wondering what everyone thinks about Him that He completely forgets about the hurting person sitting ten feet away.

The broken man He came to restore.

The woman who desperately needs to know the Father loves her.

The lonely person who needs to be seen.

The person trapped in darkness who needs Light.

Because now the entire world has become about whether people like Jesus.

Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it?

Of course it does.

Because Jesus didn’t come into a room wondering,

“Do these people like Me?”

He came wondering,

“Who can I love?”

He wasn’t looking around measuring people's reactions to Him.

He was revealing the Father to them.

And maybe that’s part of the fog.

When I walk into a room asking,

Do they like me?
Did they notice me?
Why didn’t they talk to me?
What did that look mean?
Am I wanted here?

I can become so focused on how everyone is treating me that I completely miss who God placed in front of me to love.

The fog turns every face into a mirror.

Jesus teaches us to turn every face into a person.

Maybe freedom isn’t finally convincing yourself that everybody likes you.

Maybe freedom is reaching the place where that is no longer the question.

I know who I am.
I know Whose I am.
Now, Father—who can I love?

08/23/2026

08/23/2026

Beginning tomorrow...

08/20/2026

I no longer get to look into my past and declare who I am when Jesus has already spoken.

08/20/2026

What if what you call “reality”… isn’t Reality at all?

What if you can love Jesus, go to church, know Scripture, believe the right things—

and still spend most of your life responding to what you see, what you feel, what you fear, what happened to you, and what other people think of you?

Jesus never came merely to fit into the life we had already built.

He came announcing another Kingdom.

Another way of seeing.

Another way of living.

A Reality so different that following Him would challenge our identity, our attachments, our control—even our understanding of what is possible.

So I want to ask you something before Sunday.

And I don’t want you to answer it quickly.

What is your Reality?

Because whatever you believe is most real will determine how you live.

Sunday, we’re going there.

08/19/2026

Because once I truly SEE Him...

I discover who the Father is.

And when I see the Father correctly...

I begin seeing myself correctly.

And when I see myself correctly...

I stop living out of the old lie.

08/12/2026

Do not let the atmosphere around you dilute what Christ is producing IN YOU.

08/09/2026

It's not about how they see you.

It's about how you see them.

08/07/2026

Feelings are meant to be acknowledged, not enthroned. They can tell you what’s happening inside you, but they don’t get to decide what’s true.

08/06/2026

Know Love.

Become Love.

Reveal Love.