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Thursday, October 15, 2026  ·  Psalm 32:3, 5 (WEB)

„When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.“

When I Kept Silence

Which sentence are you carrying unsaid today?

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Anyone Can Leave

Divorce is a form. That is exactly why "let no man separate" is, for the first time in history, a sentence for everyone. And for you.

Oct 14 · Essay

Leaving is the easiest thing in the world today. A job, a church, a group chat, a marriage. The court doesn't ask why. Nobody asks why. "It wasn't working" is a complete sentence, and nothing gets said after it.

Two thousand years ago, they asked. They came to Jesus with a lawyer's question: is it allowed? And on what grounds? It was argued over then the way speed limits are argued over now. Jesus took no side. He said Moses had allowed divorce for the hardness of their hearts. Not as a command; as a concession. Insurance against damage that was coming anyway. And then: "What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

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