The Story Behind This Site
Had you known me in the late 1990s, you might have received a devotional email called The Electronic Exhorter—Scripture, a brief reflection, and a summons to live as though God meant what He said. It was a small thing. But small things done in obedience have a way of outlasting clever things done for applause.
Years later, I turned to other projects, including Pop Goes the Preacher, in which I explored how even fragments of popular culture might serve as signposts pointing back to eternal truth. It was worthwhile work. But time has a way of burning off fog, and what has become clear to me is this: what the soul most needs is not novelty, nor ingenuity, nor cultural relevance for its own sake. What the soul needs is truth—plainly declared, faithfully applied, and lived out with deliberate endurance.
That conviction is the engine of everything you will find here.
Why “The Electronic Exhorter”?
The name is drawn from Hebrews 3:13: “But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called ‘Today,’ so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin” (NASB95).
The word rendered “encourage” runs deeper than we tend to imagine. It means to exhort—to urge, to call alongside, to strengthen another in what is right. This is not the thin broth of empty positivity. It is the work of reminding the weary, warning the drifting, strengthening the faithful, and calling all of us back to the bedrock we were built to stand upon.
What You Will Find Here
Scripture-centered devotionals. Reflections on faith as it meets daily life. Occasional observations on culture—because truth does not stop at the church door. And always, direct application of God’s Word, because a Bible admired but unapplied is a lamp carried but never lit.
Some of what you read here will comfort. Some will challenge. All of it is written with the same aim: to exhort in love and in truth.
A Word About the Author
I do not write as a man who has arrived. I write as one who has seen what happens when faith grows comfortable—when truth is assumed rather than held, and when endurance in Christ is treated as something automatic rather than something fought for. My purpose is not to impress you. It is to walk alongside you through words and to point us both toward the same unchanging foundation upon which everything that matters has always stood.
An Invitation
If it is noise you want, the world will never disappoint you. But if you are looking for something steady—something rooted in the God who does not shift with the age—something that calls you upward without losing sight of grace—then you are welcome here.
Come. Let us exhort one another while it is still called “Today.”