The word “follow” appears seventy-one times in the Gospels with Jesus as its object, and never once in the letters written to the church. That silence turns out to be very good news.

Paul rejoiced over preachers who wanted to hurt him, then cursed preachers who seemed far more sincere. It looks like a contradiction until you see exactly where he drew the line.

You heard grace in the first ten minutes and drove home with a list. We scored 75 sermons from the world’s most-watched pulpits, and the numbers confirm what you’ve felt in the pew for years.

Someone told you there’s a generational curse on your family, and you’ve been trying to break it ever since. But the curse belonged to a covenant that’s already over, and it already fell on Someone else.

You’ve tried to fix the problem yourself. You’ve tried to outwork it, outpray it, outperform it. But what if the solution was never yours to manufacture? Three times in Scripture, God threw wood at an impossible situation — and every time, the nature of the thing changed.