THE TENSION WHERE TRUTH LIVES

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the place we go for healing needs healing too? That question became this audiobook. This isn’t about criticizing the church. It’s about loving the church enough to have an honest conversation. It’s about truth, grace, healing, and belonging. It’s for anyone who has ever loved God, carried pain, struggled to find their place, or wondered if anyone truly understand...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever looked back over your life and quietly wondered if you missed your purpose In this deeply personal conversation Pastor Charles Howse reflects on the questions that often come with age regret and reflection and explores what happens when we measure our lives by the world’s standards instead of heaven’s Discover why changing the ruler may change everything. Support the...

Send us Fan Mail The Tension Where Truth Lives | Season One, Episode Eight Most of us don’t need more information. We need the courage to implement what we already know. Pastor Charles Howse talks about the tension between knowing and doing — and why change rarely comes from another idea, but from one decision made again and again. If you’ve been waiting for a breakthrough, maybe the next step is...

Send us Fan Mail The Tension Where Truth Lives | Season One, Episode Seven   If it’s morning… why is it still dark? Pastor Charles Howse gets up at 4AM every day — pitch black, no evidence the day started. But he gets up anyway.  Yesterday he saw a young woman post two photos: 500+ pounds in one, 100 pounds lighter in the next. Her caption? “No one says they can see the difference but I can.”  If...

Send us Fan Mail Season 1 Episode 6 — Growth Happens Through Friction Growth rarely happens in comfort. It happens in the tension between where we are and where we want to be. In this episode, Pastor Charles Howse explores why resistance, disappointment, setbacks, and unanswered questions are often the very places where strength is built. If you’ve ever felt stretched by life, challenged by change...

Send us Fan Mail Season 1, Episode 5 — Listening to the Clock Time is always speaking. The question is whether we’re listening. In this episode, Pastor Charles Howse explores how seasons, delays, opportunities, and transitions often reveal more than the passing of minutes. Sometimes the clock isn’t counting against us—it’s teaching us, preparing us, and reminding us that every season has a purpose...

Send us Fan Mail Season 1 | Episode 4: The Parking Lot Wasn’t Angry While sitting in a gas station parking lot, Pastor Charles Howse noticed something surprising: the people weren’t angry—the narratives were. In this episode of The Tension Where Truth Lives, he explores how easily we reduce people to labels, how those labels shape our perceptions, and why seeing the humanity behind the category ma...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 3: You Can’t Legislate Love What if some of the most important things in life simply cannot be forced? We can create rules.  We can establish expectations.  We can require compliance. But can we require compassion?  Can we mandate loyalty?  Can we legislate love? In this episode of The Tension Where Truth Lives , Pastor Charles Howse explores the difference between behavio...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 2: My View From the Pit Life has a way of placing us in seasons we never would have chosen. Seasons of disappointment, delay, betrayal, loss, uncertainty, and questions that seem to have no answers. In those moments, it can feel as though our circumstances are defining our future. In Episode 2 of The Tension Where Truth Lives, Pastor Charles Howse explores the powerful sto...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 1: A New Perspective on Controversy Controversy is nothing new. It has existed in every generation, every community, every church, and every corner of life. Yet most controversy is not created by facts alone—it is shaped by the perspectives through which those facts are viewed. In this premiere episode of The Tension Where Truth Lives , Pastor Charles Howse explores how tw...