A grieving mother named her son Ichabod, “the glory has departed.” Many neighbourhoods carry similar names. How labels shape places, and how communities can be renamed.

Habakkuk was told to write the vision down and wait for its appointed time. A reflection on long-delayed house plans, revising the dream and hoping honestly.

House hunting can turn a calm couple into anxious strangers. Colossians 3:15 offers an unexpected picture for making the decision together: peace as the referee.

Town apartment or country house? A reflection on Deuteronomy 28 and the real trade-offs families weigh when deciding where to live, from commutes to water supply to church and community.

Some years a household limps to December. How families can give thanks honestly at year’s end without pretending the losses did not happen.

Samuel nearly anointed the tallest son. Buyers nearly always fall for the best-dressed house. An essay on 1 Samuel 16, first impressions, and learning to look for what is sound underneath.

John says the Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us, a phrase with the sense of pitching a tent. An essay on what it means that God chose to live close, and what that asks of the way we live where we are.

Sometimes I sit back and think that these attacks from the enemy never stop. And the more we do kingdom work for…

Have you ever thought of a stocked grocery shelf as a testimony to God’s goodness? Many of us do not live in…

Across the Caribbean, half-built houses wait for the next pay packet. A reflection on Zechariah 4, the unfinished temple, and the God who does not despise small beginnings.