That’s not a tagline. That’s what Jill and I actually did. We sat down with everything we had built, everything we had planned, everything we thought Bible Morning was supposed to become, and we put it on the floor in front of God and said, “Your call.”
We had been moving. Working hard. Building what we thought this was. The website, the content, the direction — we had mapped it out. A good plan, we thought. Ours. But somewhere in the middle of building it, I started to feel like we were building our version of what God had called us to. Not His.
So we stopped. We prayed. And then we did something that doesn’t come naturally to either of us — we got quiet and stayed there.
That’s when the three o’clock thing started.
No alarm, no reason — just wide awake at three in the morning with something pressing on me that wasn’t there when I went to sleep. A direction. An idea. A sense of: do this. Not tomorrow. Now. I’d grab my phone, write it down, lay there thinking — okay, that wasn’t me.
And Jill. She’d come to me steady. Not pushing. Just clear: “I really think we need to do this.” When your wife speaks into you with that kind of calm certainty, you’d be foolish not to stop and hear it. Ask Jill. She watched me miss it for years. The Holy Spirit will use whoever is closest to you to say what you won’t hear on your own.
Paul wrote to the church at Philippi, and I keep coming back to this: “being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 1:6, NKJV) That verse doesn’t say He’ll complete your version of the work. It says He’ll complete His. Laying it all down is how you find out which one you were building.
Here’s what God changed.
Bible Morning’s core calling didn’t move. We are still here for the same reason God gave us this in the first place — helping believers think clearly about AI. That didn’t move. But how we get there changed. God opened a door to teach at a large church here in Colorado. A real room, real people, walking them through what Christians need to understand about AI: how to use it, where to draw the line, what guardrails matter and why. We’re building that curriculum right now, and the doors God opened to get there are not doors we knocked on. That class wasn’t in our plan. God put it there.
Context-engineered Bible studies: deep, source-grounded study engines built for individual believers. Not AI generating its own version of commentary and calling it wisdom. Real commentary. Actual words from Chuck Smith, David Guzik, Warren Wiersbe — pulled and organized in one place so you don’t need six tabs open and two different websites to study the way your pastor studies. Because believers should be users of God’s word. Not consumers of a machine’s version of it.
We launched on Substack. The site changed. Some things we had been building got set aside, and honestly, that was a relief.
Proverbs 16:9 says a man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. Jill and I had a way. God had a direction. The only reason any of this moved is because we stopped long enough for Him to redirect it.
And then there’s Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a future and a hope.” (NKJV) People quote that verse looking for comfort. But it requires something first. It requires letting go of your plans long enough to actually receive His.
So here’s where I land. Don’t skip past this.
What are you still holding that you haven’t laid down? A business. A ministry idea. A version of your life you kept building without ever asking if He wanted it that way. You’re still moving on it. Still working it. And somewhere underneath all that effort, you know it hasn’t really been handed over.
Lay it down. Not because it’s a bad plan. Maybe it’s a great plan. But lay it down and find out if it’s His. Because what He gives back will be better than what you started with.
We know. Because we almost didn’t.
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