Welcome
SinglePurpose.Life is a digital garden—a living, evolving collection of Scripture-anchored notes, essays, and questions. It isn't a blog with a start and an end, and it isn't a systematic theology textbook pretending to be tidy.
It's a place to think slowly, read carefully, and let ideas grow over time.
There is no required path. No overarching binge order. No pressure to "get it all."
A digital garden is a public notebook. Notes are interconnected rather than chronological. Some are unfinished. Some change. All mature with time. Growth is visible. Revision is expected.
I live in the uncomfortable middle between certainty and collapse—where faith is tested, language gets slippery, and easy answers stop working. I’m not interested in stealing assurance from the faithful, but I am willing to unsettle false peace if it keeps someone from repentance and life.
Drawing from theology, psychology, and lived experience, I write essays that dismantle counterfeit clarity and rebuild meaning that can survive real pressure.
My work often explores belief, conscience, motivation, shame, grace, and the quiet ways people lose—or recover—their agency. Equal parts analytical and pastoral, I resist both sentimental spirituality and cynical detachment.
I believe truth should be honest enough to hurt a little, and humane enough to heal. I write not to project certainty, but to pursue coherence born of lived wrestling.
A Biblical Garden
"One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after…"
— Psalm 27:4
This garden is Scripture-centered—not as a slogan, but as a discipline.
You'll find markers instead of maps.
Thoughts instead of conclusions.
Seedlings, saplings, and a few evergreens—ideas I've chosen to tend in the open rather than hide behind polish.
Some notes are confident. Some are cautious. Some are unresolved on purpose.
This is not a monument.
It's a field under cultivation.
Read more: An Invitation to Wander
What you'll find here
- Scripture-anchored notes
Word studies, thematic threads, doctrinal questions, and biblical cross-references. - Interwoven paths
Backlinks let you move from verse to doctrine, promise to warning, theology to lived experience. - Living margin comments
Observations that grow, get corrected, and sometimes overturned as more light comes.
Disagreement is possible here. So is revision.
How to explore
There's no table of contents to conquer and no finish line to reach.
- Follow curiosity.
- Trace a question across links.
- Sit with a verse that resists you.
- Leave and return later to see what has grown.
If you want to understand how Scripture is handled here—and why some notes may feel uncomfortably direct—start with these:
Suggested entry points
If you'd like a place to begin, these paths are well-traveled:
- An Invitation to Wander
- What to Expect
- Snotty Nose or Smarty Pants?
- Truth about Pet Doctrines
- What is salvation? or The Final Judgment
- God is a Liar and Satan's Lie is True
- The Doctrine of Godliness
Recently Published Notes
"This one thing I do…"
— Philippians 3:13