The Lodging Place

The Lodging Place We are in the beginning stages of establishing a kingdom family rooted in beloved identity in Macclenny, Florida.

07/15/2026

From the Table…
The Better Burden

Life has a way of teaching us that there are very few easy roads. Doing the wrong thing carries its own weight, but doing the right thing doesn't always remove hardship either. Sometimes faithfulness is the more difficult path.

The apostle Paul understood this tension. He described his life and ministry as "sorrowful, yet always rejoicing" (2 Corinthians 6:10). Following Jesus didn't spare him from suffering, but it gave him a joy that hardship could not take away.

Not every burden is the same. Some slowly drain the soul, while others shape us into the likeness of Christ. One leads to regret. The other leads to life.

Today, don't simply ask which path is easier. Ask which one produces life.

Choose the burden that leaves your soul at rest. It may not be the easiest road, but it will always be the better one.

07/09/2026

From the Table…

“While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the message.” - Acts 10:44

The Holy Spirit was never meant to be confined to a stage, a microphone, or even a church building.

In Acts 10, while Peter was simply sharing the good news in Cornelius’ home, the Holy Spirit was poured out. Peter wasn’t trying to manufacture a supernatural moment. He was simply surrendered to God.

The remarkable part of the story isn’t just that the Holy Spirit powerfully moved, but that Peter refused the attention. When Cornelius bowed before him, Peter immediately lifted him up, saying, “I am only a man.”

Maybe that’s the invitation for us this week. Instead of chasing extraordinary experiences, let’s become ordinary people who are fully available to God! The Holy Spirit still delights in meeting people around dinner tables, at work, in our neighborhoods, and in everyday conversations.

What a life we get to live!

From the Table…He StaysSome of the deepest healing in life comes through people who simply choose to remain.Shame tells ...
07/03/2026

From the Table…
He Stays

Some of the deepest healing in life comes through people who simply choose to remain.

Shame tells us that if others truly knew us, they would leave. Jesus tells a different story. Throughout the Gospels, He continually moved toward people others had written off. He never ignored the truth, but neither did He walk away when brokenness came into view.

There is most likely someone in your life who doesn’t need another answer today. Maybe they simply need to know they are not alone.

As we learn to abide in the love of Christ, may we become the kind of people who stay.

06/25/2026

From the Table…

It’s easy to mistake a doorway for the destination.

We become so focused on the next opportunity, the next accomplishment, or the next milestone that we begin chasing branches before the roots have had time to grow.

Jesus never seemed to rush people toward outcomes. Instead, He invited them into a way of living. The Kingdom grows much like a seed—quietly, patiently, and often beneath the surface long before anyone sees the fruit.

Maybe this season isn’t about growing higher. Maybe it’s about growing deeper.

Don’t despise the hidden work. One day, others will find rest beneath the shade of what God is growing in you.

06/17/2026

From the Table…
The Freedom of Contentment

One of the quietest forms of freedom is learning to stop comparing your life to someone else’s.

So much of our anxiety comes from chasing an imagined version of ourselves or wishing our story looked more like someone else’s. But peace begins to emerge when we receive this moment as it is and trust that growth doesn’t have to be forced.

Jesus never invited people to compete. He simply called them to follow Him. And as they walked with Him, they slowly became the people they were created to be.

Perhaps the next step in your journey isn’t to become someone different, but to become fully present to the life God has already placed before you. The deepest transformations happen through abiding, not striving.

06/10/2026

From the Table…

There is a strange ache that comes with returning home.

Sometimes we return to a place, a house, or a memory hoping to reconnect with something familiar, only to discover that what we are longing for now exists mostly in memory.

Life keeps moving.

Buildings, possessions, accomplishments, and even the institutions we once thought would last forever eventually fade. The question is not what we can preserve, but what truly remains.

Perhaps the things of eternal value are not the things we can hold in our hands, but the people we love and the lives we touch along the way.

What remains when everything else changes?

06/03/2026

From the Table...

The writer of Hebrews tells us to lay aside every weight and run the race set before us with patience. Most of us immediately begin focusing on the weight. What is slowing me down? What obstacle is in my way? But what if the secret is not found in staring at the weight?

An airplane overcomes both weight and drag, not by obsessing over them, but by maintaining lift and thrust. I wonder if the same is true for us. Hebrews doesn't tell us to fix our eyes on our burdens. It tells us to look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

Perhaps the secret of laying aside every weight is not found in examining the weight itself, but in becoming captivated by Jesus. The more clearly we see Him, the lighter the weights become. Fear loosens its grip, anxiety loses its voice, and the kingdom within becomes more real than the pressures without.

And before we know it, we are running again.

05/25/2026

From the Table…
Learning to slow down long enough to become present again.

05/21/2026

From the Table…

Romans 8:14 says, “The mature children of God are those who are moved by the impulses of the Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit’s leading is often quieter than we expect — a gentle restraint, a sudden compassion, a deep peace, or an inward nudge toward love, truth, and wisdom.

So much of life is lived reacting to noise, pressure, and hurry. But maturity in Christ is learning to slow down enough to notice the Holy Spirit moving within us. God is not merely managing behavior externally. He is awakening us internally, teaching us to live responsive to His love from the inside out.

From the TableThere’s something sacred about the way John tells the story in John 21—unhurried, unpolished, deeply human...
05/14/2026

From the Table

There’s something sacred about the way John tells the story in John 21—unhurried, unpolished, deeply human.

Peter had been unraveled. This is the same man who once moved quickly, spoke first, acted first. And yet, on the morning of the resurrection, when Mary came saying the body was gone, it was John who outran him to the tomb. Sometimes it isn’t physical weakness that slows us down, but discouragement—something internal that has come undone.

But the unraveling wasn’t the end of Peter’s story. Later, standing again by the water, when John says, “It is the Lord,” Peter dives in—not to prove anything, but simply to be near Him.

That’s the shift.

After breakfast on the shore prepared by Jesus Himself, Peter is met not with rejection, but with perfect love. Grace restores him. Love redefines him.

Sometimes what feels like falling apart is actually love burning away everything false. You stop striving to become something and begin resting in what God already says is true.

And somewhere in that quiet place, a deeper truth settles in: what God says about me matters more than what I once believed about myself.

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