Letters For The PEW

Letters for the Pew is a podcast built around personal letters of faith and hope, written directly to fellow disciples of JESUS CHRIST. Each episode delivers an intimate, handwritten-style reflection meant for the one sitting in the pew—whether weary, waiting, or worshiping. These are not sermons from a stage, but words from one disciple to another, offering encouragement, honest struggle, and unshakable hope in Christ alone.

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and I choose to blame the solution for the problem
16d ago · 4:41
It is from instances such as this that I come to realise my fault to be deeper than my own skin. For sin itself blinds me from seeing that I am wretched to think that GOD doesn't love me to save me from the deepest hurting. It is scripture that shows to me that I stand in the way of my own healing, I push the Healer away, I refuse the healing, I choose to be lesser and I choose to blame the solution for the problem.
At the beginning of God’s leading, you will find the end of it
20d ago · 3:00
At the beginning of GOD's leading, you will find the end of it, the purpose of it. GOD leads us from the place of a finished process. That means while HE leads us through the journey, HE is instructing us from the place of the conclusion of the journey. To know the end from the beginning is how GOD leads us.
a debtor is obligated to the courtesy of the indebted
25d ago · 8:29
In some agreements, and in some ways, to owe is to be owned; to owe is to have a piece of you given for a piece of your vision to be earned. In some ways when you borrow money, you have no space to waver because you either succeed at what you set out to do or lose something just as valuable. I reckon that a debtor is obligated to the courtesy of the indebted and no lender gives you a loan when they do not think you are valuable or have a portion of value they may have in their possession if their possessions are not recovered at the fulfilment of the agreement. In the same way, I think of loan
A Letter to Solape
28d ago · 2:30
Who said walking with God was easy? It is not easy, my love, because when you live a life of total surrender to the will of God, the things you love, the plans you have and the people you have had around you may need to change so you can align perfectly with His will.
DEAR PAWN
1mo ago · 4:12
As a pawn, you have no control over your actions; your choices are limited to begin with! You move forward when told to, never an option of backtracking, and many times you are stuck in one position by the opposition until he wishes to take you off the board to advance his own agenda. Yes, there is a promise of promotion to a higher rank at the end of the chessboard, but, Olu, you and I know that is only a mirage.
even if GOD doesn’t save them, they won’t budge
1mo ago · 4:36
When the tough times are imminent, it is easy to justify keeping faith aside because your heart is right with GOD. However, "the heart alone" isn't enough. If we say the heart is right with GOD and so actions don't matter because we can repent later, we dig a pit while still in it. Why? Because the heart is deceitful, and actions or plans are tied to our hearts. So what we do or do not do is a direct result of the state of our hearts, whether we admit this or not.
Following Jesus with your Carry-on
1mo ago · 9:06
Dear Akpan, I can hardly believe that July has decided to grace us with her ever-gentle presence. Where I am, the weather seems to change its mind every other day, but I have made a mid-year resolution not to utter a single word of complaint about it. Complaining about whatever season I find myself in […]
to question the God who did not create with questions
1mo ago · 9:00
At every stage of creation where GOD is faced with a new task or for lack of better words, a challenge for creativity, how does GOD handle it? Does HE dwell on the problem or does HE solve it? He solves by HIS Word, yes? But what does HE not do? He does not ask questions. Now I know this is ironic since most of this letter so far has been about asking questions. I have asked questions to say that in the creation story, there are no questions. GOD doesn't create by questions and because we know that all things are of GOD and made by The LORD (1 Corinthians 8:6), then there are no questions in t
Unlike your children, what GOD calls to be, becomes
1mo ago · 7:34
In the first Calling Game, GOD called into existence things that did not exist. Unlike your children, what GOD calls to be becomes. When GOD says, ‘let there be light’, there's light (Genesis 1:3). GOD calls day and night and they don't take up any other name since then (Genesis 1:5). GOD calls the firmament (Genesis 1:7), calls the waters together (Genesis 1:9), calls trees to grow (Genesis 1:11,12), sea creatures to birth and flying birds too (Genesis 1:20-22). When it's time to make man, HE calls for man to be made in GODly Image and Likeness to have dominion (Genesis 1:26). You should tell
while evil existed, it was GOD’s Design that we stay good
2mo ago · 12:45
Have you ever wondered why there is evil in the world? Why does GOD allow evil even though GOD is good (all the time)? What does it mean for tragedy, destruction, aches, pain, evil-looking situations, harmful circumstances, and sheer bad luck to be part of GODs Will? Can we say evil comes from a good GOD? Do we say these things to keep up hope? Do we sometimes think GOD lost control, and then something bad happened? And does our faith oblige us to say it is what GOD wanted even if it is hurtful? How do we make sense of this inevitable paradox?
The silent role of Faithfulness
3mo ago · 7:30
Though Scripture does not describe the details for us, I am convinced that there must have been a quiet and consistent role of faithfulness being played behind the scenes, a faithfulness that ensured the knowledge of God would be passed down. Timothy’s sincere faith must have affected Apostle Paul so deeply that he felt compelled to commend both his mother and grandmother for it. What may have appeared insignificant to ordinary eyes became part of the foundation that eventually gave rise to some of the letters we now hold in Scripture. Paul recognized Timothy as someone trustworthy enough to e
The Bible is made up of books written to people in the past
3mo ago · 5:30
The Bible wasn't written in verses. Verses help us memorise, but don't fall into the habit of exalting one above another. Scripture is like a body—every part matters. Preferring one verse over another is like preferring your biceps to your triceps. That's not how a body works, and not how Scripture works either.
JESUS stood to lose no matter what HE chose
3mo ago · 5:49
They knew only JESUS could end HIS own ministry. They knew the only force powerful enough to stop GOD is GOD. Even today, the enemy tries to use 'a work of GOD' to prevent "the work of GOD"—to distract, to water down, or to divide hearts and attention. No one but GOD can stop GOD and HIS will.
TOO STRONG TO BE WEAK
3mo ago · 6:59
I think about how often the Lord reminds us that His strength is made available to us, especially in times of weakness and I am prompted to ask; how can strength be made available in weakness? The concept of strength that the world has always taught us is to always appear strong. However, God’s word says His strength is made perfect in our weaknesses
We are no longer slaves to the sins that we once committed
4mo ago · 4:00
"We have freedom: freedom that is never bound, freedom that can no longer succumb to the boundaries of our human and unequal limitations. The righteousness of GOD, the righteousness of JESUS, shows us that we can live in righteousness and be strong by virtue of living in it."
The battle that really matters
4mo ago · 6:19
It may seem strange to you, who would choose death? Yet the truth is that, left to ourselves, we often do, even when we try not to. But this is where the beauty of the gospel shines. Jesus Christ came and laid down His life for you and me, triumphing over sin, and all that held us bound
I am a dog who waits for the owner before I bark or bite
4mo ago · 4:00
I'm learning to be and feel good and grateful to GOD when those who hurt me have goodness or good news in their lives. Example at hand, a manipulative ex getting married before me, a wicked senior and bully in secondary school becoming a big time success in their industry, a wayward colleague finding JESUS before facing the retribution of sin.
Have your burdens been rolled away?
4mo ago · 7:29
A soul without burden is one that has allowed Another (Jesus Christ) to carry it, and can now rejoice freely. We begin to see the light, and our backs grow light as well; the burden that once sat heavily on our hearts rolls away and rests in the tomb where Jesus Christ defeated sin.
It seems to me that GOD uses the differences
4mo ago · 5:40
Lately, I am trying to unravel the contribution of differences and repetitions in human record-keeping when it comes to portraying the image of GOD. I'm gradually coming to terms with appreciating the complexity of repetition as a means of depicting the full picture of several historical accounts of faith.
I am no longer afraid of greatness
4mo ago · 4:28
I am no longer afraid of myself; I am no longer afraid, nor am I weary of myself. Today is the last day I feel sorry for being the spitting image and likeness of GOD. I embrace myself, warmly, without pride, without prejudice, without procrastination.

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A Letter to Solape

DEAR PAWN

even if GOD doesn’t save them, they won’t budge

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