by chetcromer | May 25, 2025 | Journals
When Your Gifts Are Silenced In Part 1, I shared how a place that once felt like home—especially in youth ministry—can slowly become unfamiliar. How subtle shifts, unspoken decisions, and relational distance can leave you feeling like an outsider in a space where you...
by chetcromer | May 25, 2025 | Thoughts
Once a year, we fire up the grill, wave the flag, and take a long weekend to mark a national holiday. But do we really understand what we’re honoring? Too often, the lines between Memorial Day and Veterans Day get blurred. The intention is usually good—gratitude,...
by chetcromer | Apr 27, 2025 | Journals
Aptziloches Diker: Finding Myself in an Unexpected Word When I first started watching The Devil Next Door on Netflix, I thought I knew what I was getting into.The story was heavy, of course — it had to be — about John Demjanjuk, an aging Cleveland man accused of being...
by chetcromer | Apr 25, 2025 | Journals
When Dreams Get Weird (And What I Did About It) The other night, I had one of those dreams. You know the kind — where nothing seems to make sense, yet everything feels oddly real. It wasn’t just random images flashing through my mind; it was a full-blown story...
by chetcromer | Apr 19, 2025 | Journals
The Day Death Held God I’ve been thinking a lot about Saturday. Not just any Saturday—that Saturday. The one after the Cross, before the sunrise and the stone rolled away. The day where nothing happened. The day where hope was dead. The day where silence ruled. That’s...
