by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor It hangs there every night; silent, massive and impossibly distant. Almost 240,000 miles away, the moon drifts in perfect rhythm, revolving around the Earth. It’s so large in diameter that if placed across...
by design | Apr 6, 2026 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor We are now past Easter. The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ all stand as the single most important event in human history. No moment has carried greater weight, no act has produced more...
by design | Mar 30, 2026 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor The day that Jesus Christ died, darkness settled across the sky, not as a gentle dimming, but as a suffocating shroud that swallowed the light of day. The air was heavy. The ground groaned beneath the...
by design | Mar 23, 2026 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor What if God wasn’t necessarily looking for polished belief, but just sheer honesty in the real and raw human need? In Mark 9, we are privileged to relive the story of a father who stands in a crowd, watching...
by design | Mar 9, 2026 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor I try to avoid going to the grocery store. What should be a simple task, such as walking in to grab a box of cereal, often turns into a mental tug-of-war. The shelves are lined with endless options:...
by design | Mar 2, 2026 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor A master carpenter once said that when you study a finished table, you are not just looking at wood, you are looking at every hand that shaped it. They selected the timber, planed it smooth, and...
