🚨❤️🙏I want to say something from the heart today.
Some people see the finished essays, charts, studies, posts, series, and visuals, and maybe it looks like material just appears out of nowhere. It does not. There is a tremendous amount of prayer, labor, study, research, discipline, cost, pressure, exhaustion, and spiritual burden behind it. I am not a machine cranking out content. I have a heart. I have a soul. I have a spirit. I have a family. I have a business. I have responsibilities. I have a house to maintain, children to raise, work to do, bills to pay, and a body that gets tired like everybody else’s. But I also have a fire in me that I cannot shut off, because I believe with all my heart that God has put this work in front of me for such a time as this.
VerseQuest now has 462 detailed Bible series, and by God’s grace, I want that number to grow into the thousands. That is not ambition for applause. That is not some ego project. That is a burden. I want VerseQuest to become a one-stop shop for the serious Bible believer. A place where a preacher, teacher, student, missionary, young believer, father, mother, or hungry Christian can find serious Bible material, rightly divided, King James Bible believing, doctrinally sound, and built to help people who are starving for truth. The Bible Institute is part of that vision. Twenty courses per level. Multiple levels. Certification courses. Eventually ordination tracks. A library of material. Downloadable charts. Teaching resources. Books. Studies. Tools. Curriculum. The kind of thing I wish I had access to when I was younger and trying to figure out where to go, who to trust, and how to learn.
I use a lot of tools to do this. SEMrush, Moz, Jasper, ChatGPT, Grok, Whisper, Wispr Flow, Dragon Anywhere, Otter AI, MagicShot AI, image tools, research tools, grammar tools, SEO tools, and more. But let me say this plainly: those tools do not replace conviction. They do not replace study. They do not replace prayer. They do not replace discernment. They do not replace doctrine. They are tools in the hand of a man trying to get more work done while time is short. A hammer does not build the house by itself. A sword does not swing itself. A plow does not break the ground unless somebody puts his hands to it. These tools help me work faster, organize better, correct cleaner, research deeper, produce visuals, track results, and get material into the hands of people who need it. But it still takes skill, training, time, money, discernment, and a tremendous amount of work to integrate all of that into a natural writing flow.
I work around the clock many days. I have a business. I import products. I work from home. I help raise a family. My kids are in private school. I have household responsibilities. There is always a list. Painting stairs. Refinishing cabinets. Cleaning. Taking care of an acre of land. Handling business issues. Answering messages. Studying. Writing. Posting. Planning. Building. Sometimes I work until I literally fall asleep at my desk. I have a couch in my office because there are times I have to lie down for an hour, set a timer, get back up, and keep going. Sometimes I go out on the patio, sit in a lawn chair, close my eyes for a little while, and then come right back in and get back to work. I am not saying that to complain. I am saying it so people understand that this is not casual for me. This is not a hobby. This is a calling, a burden, and a labor of love.
Every day, people message me. Sometimes twenty or more different people. Some have questions. Some have needs. Some are hurting. Some are confused. Some are encouraged. Some are learning. Some need help getting untangled from false doctrine. Some are in places where sound Bible teaching is not easy to find. I hear from people in China, including underground believers. I hear from people in Africa, South America, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, England, the UK, Germany, Ukraine, Russia,