🎙️Episode 26: The Hotel Room, the Funeral, and the Forest

🎙️ Crumb Confessional — Episode 26Title: The Hotel Room, the Funeral, and the Forest📍 Description:This one's a full confessional ping-pong match. Tragedy. Laughter. Conviction. Physics. Pill bugs.We lost a 24-year-old member of the Mercy Ships community to malaria. It’s shaken a lot of us. I wrestle with the limits of healing, faith, and the reality of risk when you're living on mission with kids.Later that night, I stared a homeless man in the face and said no to a hotel room.Then went home and wrestled with Jesus.Also in this episode:An update on my brother’s stand-up comedy showThe question I keep asking: “What’s the line between faith and recklessness?”A confession about how I used to give like a wild man—and how God showed upA physics rabbit hole with Brian GreeneThe softest moment with my son Leo on a walk through the woods💡 Highlights & Timestamps:00:35 – Tragic death on Mercy Ships, processing risk, and the mystery of healing05:15 – When Jesus doesn’t “answer” and why I still believe07:20 – My brother’s comedy journey & the power of long obedience10:30 – The man named Keith and the conviction I’m carrying16:20 – Why “faithful” doesn’t always mean “comfortable”19:50 – My wild younger years of giving recklessly and God showing up22:30 – Wrestling with responsible vs. radical obedience26:15 – New book: The Hidden Reality and why I care about physics29:40 – Final story: Leo held my hand on a forest walk, and I melted🧠 Core Takeaway:When the moment comes—whether it’s malaria or homelessness or your own doubt—faith has to move. Not explain. Not calculate. Just move.📖 Scriptures Referenced or Implied:Matthew 25:35–40 — “Whatever you did for the least of these…”2 Corinthians 5:7 — “We walk by faith, not by sight.”Luke 6:30 — “Give to everyone who asks you…”James 2:17 — “Faith without works is dead.”Proverbs 19:17 — “Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord…”Galatians 6:9 — “Do not grow weary in doing good…”👣 Closing Line:Episode 26 — one hotel room unbooked, one deer spotted, one hand held in the woods. I'm still in this. And I want to get it right.