Author: Chris Taff

Have you ever noticed that the harder you press into God, the harder everything else seems to press back? You start praying more, and suddenly there is more to worry about. You commit to something for Him, and out of nowhere the doubts show up, the exhaustion, the old temptations you thought were behind you,…

The Story Not long ago I sat down after a long day, picked up my phone “just for a minute,” and looked up an hour later. I hadn’t learned anything useful. What I had picked up was a sour mood, a few new worries, and a strong opinion about something that didn’t even touch my…

Sooner or later it comes for all of us. A season where the faith that used to feel solid starts to feel like a question. Maybe it is a loss you cannot make sense of. Maybe it is a prayer that went unanswered for so long you stopped praying it. Maybe it is just a…

There is a strange thing that can happen to a believer. We can receive the greatest gift ever given, the very Spirit of God living inside us, and then treat it like something to store in a drawer. We guard it. We enjoy it privately. We show up on Sunday, feel the warmth of it,…

I was thinking the other day about how many people pass through a single ordinary week. Family we love and worry over. Friends. The folks we work alongside. The pastor who stands up on Sunday. Leaders we will never meet whose decisions still land on our doorstep. Dozens of names, easily, when you actually stop…

A Year Since the Quad One year ago, on September 10, 2025, a young man sat under a tent on a college campus in Orem, Utah, doing the thing he did best. He was taking questions. Answering strangers. Standing in the open in front of anyone who wanted to argue with him, because he believed…

I still remember exactly where I was that morning. Most of us do. It was an ordinary Tuesday, coffee brewing, the day already moving, and then everything stopped. We watched the towers fall on live television. We watched the smoke rise over the Pentagon. We heard about a field in Pennsylvania where ordinary passengers decided…

I’ve sat in enough rooms full of believers to notice a pattern that still bothers me. Sooner or later, somebody’s name comes up, someone who drinks too much, or has a sharp tongue, has anger issues, or can’t seem to keep their life together, and a hush of quiet agreement fills the room. Heads nod.…

When the Prayer List Is Longer Than the Day By Chris Taff on September 9, 2026 I sat down this morning with my coffee and every intention of praying, and the list just kept growing. My boss goes in for open heart surgery today. My stepson Ty shipped off to the military yesterday. There’s the…

I’ve spent a lot of years in the A/V and music industry, and I can tell you the most dangerous mistakes were never the obvious ones. Nobody wires a system wrong on purpose. Nobody plays an obviously wrong note. The failures come from the almost-right move — the setting that looked dialed in, sounded fine…