Sandy Creek Stirrings

In this episode: In the years after Appomattox, America faced a question even harder than winning the war: what would freedom actually mean? Across the South, freed families began building churches, schools, homes, and a future — while powerful forces worked to hem that freedom in, rename it, and push it back into the shadows. In Nothing But Freedom, Part 2 of the 1876 election series, Stirring St...

About this series: The Present Work of God is a doctrinal series built around one searching question: what is God doing right now? Christians often think about what God has done in creation, Calvary, and the resurrection, and we often think about what God will do in prophecy, judgment, and eternity. But Scripture also reveals that God is presently and actively working. This series seeks to help be...

About this series: The Present Work of God is a doctrinal series built around one searching question: what is God doing right now? Christians often think about what God has done in creation, Calvary, and the resurrection, and we often think about what God will do in prophecy, judgment, and eternity. But Scripture also reveals that God is presently and actively working. This series seeks to help be...

In this episode: In America’s hundredth year, the nation was celebrating progress while old war wounds still shaped the ballot box. The Republican Party needed a new man, but the obvious names carried shadows of their own. Then, just as one powerful contender seemed ready to rise, a handful of letters appeared — and one phrase became almost impossible to escape: “Kindly burn this letter.” In Part...

ABOUT THIS SERIES: The Present Work of God is a doctrinal series built around one searching question: what is God doing right now? Christians often think about what God has done in creation, Calvary, and the resurrection, and we often think about what God will do in prophecy, judgment, and eternity. But Scripture also reveals that God is presently and actively working. This series seeks to help be...

ABOUT THIS SERIES: The Present Work of God is a doctrinal series built around one searching question: what is God doing right now? Christians often think about what God has done in creation, Calvary, and the resurrection, and we often think about what God will do in prophecy, judgment, and eternity. But Scripture also reveals that God is presently and actively working. This series seeks to help be...

In this episode: After disgrace, after chains, after the navy he had built was nearly ruined in another man’s hands, Yi Sun-sin returned to the sea with almost nothing left. Korea was bleeding, Japan was pressing forward again, and the king was ready to abandon the waters altogether. But Yi looked at the wreckage, counted what remained, and sent back the words that would follow him into history: “...

In this episode: Before the legend, before the impossible victories, before Korea knew how much it would need him, Yi Sun-sin was sent to the southern coast and began doing the kind of quiet work most men overlook. Across the sea, Japan was gathering for war, and when the invasion finally came, cities fell, roads filled with fear, and the kingdom seemed to shake beneath the news. But on the water,...

Church Member 101 is an extremely practical and applicable series meant to help ordinary Christians think biblically about their place in the local church. The purpose is not to scold church members or make faithful people feel unappreciated, but to encourage all of us to examine how we can better love, serve, strengthen, and support the work of God in our church. Correction is never easy to recei...

Church Member 101 is an extremely practical and applicable series meant to help ordinary Christians think biblically about their place in the local church. The purpose is not to scold church members or make faithful people feel unappreciated, but to encourage all of us to examine how we can better love, serve, strengthen, and support the work of God in our church. Correction is never easy to recei...

A reading home is about more than having books on a shelf. It is a home where Scripture is loved, words are valued, attention is trained, and children grow up seeing that reading is not a punishment, but part of a thoughtful and spiritually healthy life. In this episode, we begin with the biblical case for why Christians should care about reading and why a home shaped by the Word of God ought to b...

In this episode: At the bottom of the world, on a cold and forgotten island south of New Zealand, two shipwrecked crews found themselves facing the same terrible question: what do men become when no one is coming to save them? One group began building a home from the wreckage, forging tools from scraps, and clinging to order in a place that seemed determined to break them. The other group, strande...

Church Member 101  is an extremely practical and applicable series meant to help ordinary Christians think biblically about their place in the local church. The purpose is not to scold church members or make faithful people feel unappreciated, but to encourage all of us to examine how we can better love, serve, strengthen, and support the work of God in our church. In this episode, we discuss loya...

In this episode: On a cold December morning in 1917, a burning ship drifted silently toward a crowded harbor while thousands of people watched from their windows, unaware that they were looking at one of history's greatest non-nuclear explosions. As seconds ticked away, one ordinary railway dispatcher faced a decision that would echo through history. This is the unforgettable true story of the...

Church Member 101  is an extremely practical and applicable series meant to help ordinary Christians think biblically about their place in the local church. The purpose is not to scold church members or make faithful people feel unappreciated, but to encourage all of us to examine how we can better love, serve, strengthen, and support the work of God in our church. In this episode, we talk about t...

Most of us do not really rest anymore—we collapse, scroll, watch, and call it unwinding. But what if part of our weariness comes from the fact that we have forgotten how to enjoy anything slowly, quietly, and wholesomely? This episode makes the case for recovering the lost art of having a hobby. Not a side hustle. Not another distraction. Not an idol. Just something good to learn, enjoy, and culti...

Church Member 101 is an extremely practical and applicable series meant to help ordinary Christians think biblically about their place in the local church. The purpose is not to scold church members or make faithful people feel unappreciated, but to encourage all of us to examine how we can better love, serve, strengthen, and support the work of God in our church. Correction is never easy to recei...

Church Member 101 is an extremely practical and applicable series meant to help ordinary Christians think biblically about their place in the local church. The purpose is not to scold church members or make faithful people feel unappreciated, but to encourage all of us to examine how we can better love, serve, strengthen, and support the work of God in our church. Hebrews 13:17 teaches us that eve...

Church Member 101 is an extremely practical and applicable series meant to help ordinary Christians think biblically about their place in the local church. The purpose is not to scold church members or make faithful people feel unappreciated, but to encourage all of us to examine how we can better love, serve, strengthen, and support the work of God in our church. In this opening episode, we begin...

Sandy Creek Stirrings is entering an exciting new season of ministry. After six years of podcasting with the desire to stir up Christians for the cause of Christ, the Lord has opened the door for that burden to expand into print through the launch of Sandy Creek Stirrings Press. The heart behind the press is simple: the written word still matters. The Lord has used truth in print to stir my own he...

Every Christian life moves through seasons. There are times when the fruit is visible, the harvest is joyful, and the blessing of God seems easy to see. But there are also “out of season” times—days of planting, watering, waiting, suffering, and serving when little seems to be happening. In this episode, we look at the spiritual seasons God brings into our lives and the promise that gives strength...

In our final part - Part 4 - of  “Fight Like Jesus” , we continue our thought on how to fight FOR your spouse – not just FIGHT your spouse. When conflict comes, many couples know how to fight each other, but they have never learned how to fight for each other. Before we can handle harsh words, wounded feelings, frustration, and unmet expectations, we must first learn from the greatest example of a...

In Part 3 of  “Fight Like Jesus” , we continue our thought on how to fight FOR your spouse – not just FIGHT your spouse. When conflict comes, many couples know how to fight each other, but they have never learned how to fight for each other. Before we can handle harsh words, wounded feelings, frustration, and unmet expectations, we must first learn from the greatest example of all: Jesus Christ. I...

In Part 2 of "Fight Like Jesus" , we continue our thought on how to fight FOR your spouse - not just FIGHT your spouse. When conflict comes, many couples know how to fight each other, but they have never learned how to fight for each other. Before we can handle harsh words, wounded feelings, frustration, and unmet expectations, we must first learn from the greatest example of all: Jesus...

In this opening episode of "Fight Like Jesus" , we step onto a battlefield most people never recognize—the battlefield of marriage. When conflict comes, many couples know how to fight each other, but they have never learned how to fight for each other. Before we can handle harsh words, wounded feelings, frustration, and unmet expectations, we must first learn from the greatest example of...