FGI Content By Lucas
Lucas creates media of many kinds. Sometimes he's writing books, blogs, and articles. On other days he creates podcasts, videos, and music. Join in the adventure as Lucas explores the world from a Christian perspective.
October 13, 2026No Comments
The Disciples were willing to give up everything, even their lives. All but one of the disciples that saw Jesus after he rose from the dead, were put to death because they were not willing to admit that they had made the story up. Those guys saw something and I believe that it was Jesus […]
October 12, 2026No Comments
When I was about nine years old, I was digging in the yard. My brother saw me with the shovel and said, “If you keep going, you’ll reach China.” He probably meant this as a joke, though I wouldn’t put much confidence in either of our understanding of geography or plate tectonics at the time. I abruptly stopped, finding it disturbing to imagine people from another part of the world crawling up out of my favorite hole project. At various times throughout childhood, I would return to the dream of digging a really deep hole. When we were eleven or twelve, we attempted to dig a hole big enough to be a boy’s bunker. For the uninitiated, this is like a clubhouse, but just way more subterranean. We never got deep enough to make the bunker, but we had one fantastic mud day, when my younger brother had the idea of filling our in-progress hole via the garden hose. The deepest hole I have ever seen was actually a cavern, one of those where you can pay a little money and they will take you down into the dark. Although this one was rigged with lights, the tour guide turned them off at one point and let us just experience the dark silence. Later in the tour, he turned the lights off again and said, “If you were to walk ten steps in the direction of my voice, you would fall forever. Or at least that’s what the first explorers down here thought.” He went on to explain that there was an underground overlook that the previous century’s spelunkers had discovered. When they had thrown a rock over the edge to gauge the depth, they never heard the crash. They wondered if they had truly found a bottomless pit. It turned out that they didn’t hear the crash because the not-so-bottomless hole was lined, a few hundred feet below, with a deep layer of guano. That’s bat poop. Centuries’ worth of it. The rock had landed with a soft, silent plop. It certainly wasn’t bottomless, but it wasn’t the kind of bottom you’d want to find either. In this chapter of Revelation, we discover a pit so unfathomable that the author calls it the abyss, or in some translations, the bottomless pit.
October 8, 2026No Comments
When I was about twelve, my brother Lance and I were turned loose in the woods while Dad helped a friend build a house. We had matches in our fanny packs—tough-guy gear, somehow still in a fanny pack. We came to a field of tall, crispy, late-season grass. Lance lit a match, dropped it, and we stamped it out. Then another. Then another, waiting a little longer each time. It was fun—until it wasn't. The burn stopped being a little circle and started spreading. One of the other boys wanted to run. We had a moment of indecision that almost divided our group. Fire does that. We turned back, dipped our turtlenecks in a nearby pond, and beat the flames until we were choking and covered in ash. We got it out. When we got back, Dad joked that we looked like we'd been playing in a fire. That night Mom got a call: the burn was the size of three school buses. Our punishment was no fireworks at the church lock-in. We never played that game again. I tell that story because Jesus talks about fire in this passage, and it is jarring.
October 6, 2026No Comments
I wonder if a distant view is so satisfying because God put eternity in our hearts. Spiritually, we are always looking at the horizon—we’re looking at forever.
October 2, 2026No Comments
1998 was a huge year for life-ending meteor strikes to the earth, at least according to Hollywood. I was a freshman in high school when two major movies with the same premise came out only a few months from each other: Armageddon, starring Bruce Willis, and Deep Impact, starring Elijah Wood and Morgan Freeman. These two movies depicted extinction-level events where something from space came to Earth with cataclysmic effects. The fear of space rock impacts was not just in the movies. The late 90s were already flooded with existential dread. As Y2K (Year 2000) was approaching, there was talk of the end of the world as we knew it. In ’94, astronomers watched in awe as pieces of a giant comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9, smashed into Jupiter. In early ’98, just months before these two movies debuted, the discovery of a mile-wide asteroid, hypothetically on a collision course with Earth, was announced to the public. It splashed across newspapers and outlets worldwide and terrified everyone. The same year that the public panic was peaking, and the movies were released, the US government announced a NASA program called the Spaceguard Survey, a kind of planetary defense that was supposed to chart near-Earth objects that pose a threat. These were my high school years, years we lived in the notion that the end of the world was possibly at hand. It was in that time that my youth group took up the study of Revelation. As we worked our way through the verses on Sunday nights, I was astonished. Especially in chapter eight, where the content, specifically Wormwood, sounded a lot like the two movies I had just seen in the theater. I was both amazed and not a little scared. As the years have passed, the meteor hysteria has decreased, but one day, it will return with a fiery resolve. That’s one thing we will discover in this chapter.
October 2, 2026No Comments
This weekend I got to preach at Burleson Bible Church on a tension I used to misunderstand: salvation by grace was clear, but discipleship still felt like try-harder forever. Scripture pictures a war inside every believer—flesh on one side, spirit on the other, and the mind caught in the middle. Where we set that mind […]
October 1, 2026No Comments
This week on More To The Story: an exhausted hiker walks down Table Mountain in a rescue exoskeleton, the US–Iran standoff swings between diplomacy and doomsday, drones fill the night sky over Ukraine, gene therapy helps adult retinas rewire and see again, and a Sunday sermon on the war within — stories with more beneath the headlines, and a clear line back to Jesus.
September 30, 2026No Comments
We're thinking about hosting a small Free Grace creatives weekend for songwriters, writers, visual artists, and video/filmmakers. If we brought one near you (or near an airport you can fly into), would you come? Tell us below. Name, email, your city, and what you make — we'll weigh locations by real interest. We haven't settled […]
September 29, 2026No Comments
Had a great day with my dad in Zion National Park. He painted by the river while I wrote. We walked the river, hit the museum, then rode the canyon just looking. I’m lucky — over the years he’s gone from the guy in charge to my best friend. I think that’s what God wants […]
September 28, 2026No Comments
Inside every believer a war is going on—flesh on one side, spirit on the other, and your mind caught in the middle. Where you set that mind decides whether you live in death or in abundant life.
