Between Sundays

n this episode of Between Sundays, Chris reflects on attending — and delivering the eulogy at — his uncle’s funeral, and why moments like these force us to confront the questions we usually avoid. Modern culture often turns funerals into celebrations meant to soften grief, but what if we’re missing their deeper purpose? Funerals have a way of cutting through distraction and reminding us of what tr...

We often say things like “money changes people” or “pressure brings out a different side of them.” But what if that isn’t true? In this episode of Between Sundays, I challenge the idea that success, hardship, or stress fundamentally changes who we are. Instead, I explore a quieter—and more uncomfortable—truth: pressure doesn’t create character, it reveals it. Using a simple illustration and everyd...

Between Sundays — We Don’t Cause Growth We often talk about growth as something we produce. We grow businesses. We grow families. We grow churches. We grow ourselves. But growth doesn’t actually work that way. In this episode of Between Sundays, I reflect on the difference between causing growth and tending the conditions where growth is possible. Using the simple picture of a farmer and a seed, w...

Plans fall apart. Sometimes in small, inconvenient ways. Sometimes in ways that change everything. In this first episode of *Between Sundays*, I reflect on what happens when life doesn’t cooperate — from a missed appointment to events no amount of preparation could ever prevent. Panic feels natural in those moments, but it isn’t inevitable. While we can’t control much of what happens to us, we *ca...