by Steve-Kroening | Mar 19, 2026 | Stories 1
Every person lives in two worlds at once. One is the world we can see and touch. The other is the world we picture inside our minds. In that inner world, we replay conversations, imagine the future, fear what might happen, and dream about what could be. Though it...
by Steve-Kroening | Mar 19, 2026 | Stories 1
Behind a false wall in a quiet watchmaker’s house in Haarlem, six people once stood in complete silence while soldiers searched the rooms. The hidden space was small and close, built just inches from discovery. It existed because Corrie ten Boom and her family...
by Steve-Kroening | Mar 19, 2026 | Stories 1
J.R.R. Tolkien went to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He did not like it. That surprises many people. After all, Tolkien loved fairy stories. He filled his own books with dwarves, dragons, dark forests, and ancient songs. Walt Disney did the same, though in a...
by Steve-Kroening | Mar 11, 2026 | Book 2: Evil Corrupts the Visible
Genesis 1 and 2 opened like sunrise. Light broke into darkness at God’s command, and the world took shape under His voice. The heavens stretched wide. The seas gathered into their places. The land rose, bloomed, and filled with life. Humanity stood upright in a garden...
by Steve-Kroening | Mar 11, 2026 | Book 2: Evil Corrupts the Visible
Genesis 3:24 does not end quietly. It ends with wings and flame: “He placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.” If the verses before this felt like the shutting of a great door, this verse shows us what stands...
by Steve-Kroening | Mar 11, 2026 | Book 2: Evil Corrupts the Visible
There are moments in Scripture that feel like the shutting of a great door. Genesis 3:22–24a is one of them. The serpent has been judged. The woman has been given pain and promise. The man has heard of dust and death. Garments have been made. Hope has flickered. And...
by Steve-Kroening | Mar 11, 2026 | Book 2: Evil Corrupts the Visible
There is a moment in Genesis 3 that is easy to miss if we are moving too quickly toward exile. The serpent has been sentenced. The woman has been told of pain and conflict. The man has heard the weight of the soil fall upon his shoulders and the word that echoes over...
by Steve-Kroening | Mar 10, 2026 | Book 2: Evil Corrupts the Visible
The voice that once blessed now turns and names the cost. In the garden, God had spoken light into darkness and brought order out of chaos. He had shaped the man from dust and placed him in a world that answered gladly to his care. Trees gave fruit. The ground...
by Steve-Kroening | Mar 10, 2026 | Book 2: Evil Corrupts the Visible
When the Lord God turns from the serpent to the woman, the tone changes. The serpent is lowered and confined to the dust, but the woman is not addressed as a rival to be crushed. Instead, she is spoken to as one whose glory will now bear strain. The difference...
by Steve-Kroening | Mar 10, 2026 | Book 2: Evil Corrupts the Visible
When the Lord God begins to reveal his sentence in the Garden, He does not start with Adam or Eve, though they stand trembling before Him. He turns first to the serpent. That order is critical. Blame had moved downward—Adam to Eve, Eve to the serpent—as though...
