"Who is the liar?" John asks in 1 John 2:22. His answer: anyone who denies Jesus as Christ, Jesus as the Messiah. This is the Antichrist. Not the beast from Revelation. Not a marked villain.

Anyone.

That's a far cry from the Antichrist of popular culture.

Hebrews 11 reads like a preacher standing in front of you delivering the most powerful sermon on faith you’ve ever heard. The first time I read it, it changed the way I understand what I'm actually holding when I say I have faith.

As Peter puts it in 1 Peter 1:7, our faith is far more precious than gold. Hebrews 11 shows you exactly why.

The mountain is real. The work is real. But there's a difference between doing the work and suffering through it, and that difference has everything to do with who you ask to walk with you.

— in ways I never saw coming.