Nick Vogel
Nick Vogel writes Whole Christianity, where he works out how faith lands differently depending on how a person is wired. He serves at a Vineyard church across worship, production, and finances, preaches and teaches there on occasion, writes original worship songs, and keeps a sustained study through books of the Bible that feeds most of what he publishes here. The personality material, Enneagram and Myers-Briggs, isn't a system he's selling. It's a way of naming why the same passage reaches two people by different roads, and why "just try harder" keeps failing sincere people who are wired for something else.
132 pieces published.
The Next Sentence
This is the verse people quote when they want prayer to work like a guarantee. The sentence right after it changes the kind of asking Jesus means.
Jesus Calls It Very Little
We treat money as the great test. Jesus files it under "very little," and then explains what it is actually testing.
Wisdom You Can Watch
James asks who the wise person is, and then refuses to let anyone answer with words.
Written on the Run
David wrote a song about rescue right after escaping by pretending to be out of his mind.
What a Life Is Made Of
A man asks Jesus to settle a family argument about money. Jesus refuses, and then tells the whole crowd why.
The List Goes Down
Isaiah picks the strongest people he can find and says even they fall over.
More Than You Thought to Ask For
Paul ends a prayer by pointing past the edge of what the people praying could picture.
Words Are Seed
Solomon gives the tongue the power of life and death, then says something stranger about who eats the harvest.
An Offering That Gets Back Up
Paul spends eleven chapters on God's mercy, then asks for your body. The offering he means is the week you were already going to live.
What They Didn't Pray For
Peter and John had just been arrested and threatened. The church prayed about it, and never once asked for the threats to stop.