The People’s Revival

There are moments when something you’ve been carrying for a long time finally finds the right place to land.

This week, Red Letter Christians published my latest piece — an exposure of the three leavens Jesus warned about: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and Herod. Not as ancient history, but as living forces shaping the modern church right now.

Jesus didn’t warn us about leaven because it was obvious.

He warned us because it spreads quietly until the whole loaf is changed.

What we’re seeing across modern Churchianity isn’t random decline or simple disagreement. It’s the same three corruptions Christ named:

Religious performance replacing mercy.

Respectable faith stripped of power.

And political loyalty fused with the language of God.

The result is a form of Christianity that looks holy while quietly blocking the wounded from access to healing. A faith that speaks loudly about morality while remaining strangely silent about justice. A church that claims Christ but often mirrors the systems that crucified Him.

This article is not written to score points or win arguments. It’s a call to repentance. A call to remove the leaven rather than defend it. A call to return to the red letters — to the words and way of Jesus that still confront, still liberate, and still invite us into something far more honest than religious performance.

If you’ve ever felt the tension between the Jesus of the Gospels and the Christianity you often see represented, you’ll understand why this piece matters.

You can read the full article here:

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The Leaven in the Loaf: How Jesus Named the Corruption of the Church—and Why We Refuse to Repent

If it resonates, pass it along. Conversations like this only matter if they move beyond one platform and into real reflection, real repentance, and real rebuilding.

We don’t need a shinier version of the same loaf.

We need something honest, living, and unleavened.

Let’s build something better.