Find Your Spine

Find Your Spine

We watched it happen live. And we recognized it. That is the part nobody wants to say out loud. We watched a room full of educated, formed, credentialed people compete to offer praise to power — and something in us recognized the feeling. Isaiah 1:17 has been waiting for this moment for centuries. Learn to do right. Not as inspiration. As correction. In today’s Elevate message — Find Your Spine — I walk through five layers of what that actually means. What it costs. What makes it possible. And why the week after Pentecost is exactly the right moment to say it. This is not a comfortable word. But it is a necessary one. Watch. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ederrikporter.substack.com/subscribe [https://ederrikporter.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Still Ringing

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. If you cannot hear it, you will never find whatever it is for which you are searching… if you cannot hear the sound of the genuine in you, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls. Howard Thurman said it decades ago. Acts 2 said it first. The question hasn’t changed: What is ringing in you? Not the curated version — the genuine one. That’s the signal worth following. spirit / substance / style This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ederrikporter.substack.com/subscribe [https://ederrikporter.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

You can sit down. Too.

This one is for the mothers first. You have been in the kitchen — literally and every other way — for a long time. The world applauded you for it. Which made it harder to stop. Today Jesus has a word that hasn’t expired: One thing is needed. Not your list. Not your output. One thing. And then, gently — you can sit down. This word isn’t only for mothers. It’s for anyone who has confused their service with their worth. Luke 10. Martha works herself into resentment in her own house. Mary sits at the feet of Jesus. Martha wants her sent back to the kitchen. Jesus says — Mary chose what is better. And it will not be taken from her. Here’s what I heard the Lord say this morning: Earnestly. Not easily. The better thing is never the easy thing. But what you choose in the presence — that stays. Full message at the link. Share it with someone who needs permission to sit down today. 🤍 And if this is the kind of word you want every week — rooted, honest, built for the moment we're actually in — subscribe to Elevate on Substack. Every Sunday message, every Refined Friday drop, every piece of content we build lives here first. Real. Rooted. Ready. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ederrikporter.substack.com/subscribe [https://ederrikporter.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Three words can change everything...

Three words changed everything. “But Daniel resolved...” Not performed. Not announced. Not posted for applause. Resolved. Before the pressure arrived. Before the offer was on the table. Before the empire had a chance to rename him, reshape him, or sand down the parts of him that didn’t fit the system — Daniel made a quiet, internal determination about who he was going to be. And I think that’s the word a lot of us need right now. We are living in a moment that is asking us to be more polished than we are honest. To clean up the edges. To make ourselves more legible to rooms that aren’t sure they want what we actually carry. To trade the real version of ourselves for a version that creates less friction and takes up less space. But Daniel 1 says something different. It says the thing that qualified Daniel wasn’t his conformity. It was his refusal. It was the quiet, costly decision to stay recognizable to God even when the empire was doing everything it could to make him unrecognizable to himself. Don’t pressure yourself to be more polished than you are honest. That’s the thesis. That’s the word. And in this clip from Sunday’s Elevate broadcast, we get into exactly what that means — and what it costs — for anyone trying to stay faithful in a moment like this one. Watch the clip below. And if this is the kind of word you want every week — rooted, honest, built for the moment we’re actually in — subscribe to Elevate on Substack. Every Sunday message, every Refined Friday drop, every piece of content we build lives here first. Real. Rooted. Ready. — EDP This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ederrikporter.substack.com/subscribe [https://ederrikporter.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Your Life is Still Worth Living

This Resurrection Sunday I said something I want to make sure you heard. “Your life matters to God. Your life is still worth living — despite the failures, despite the disappointments, despite the missteps and the mistakes. You still matter to God. And He still believes in you.” That is not a motivational phrase. That is the testimony of an empty tomb. The full Resurrection Sunday message is above. Anchored in Mark 16:7 — the angel’s instruction at the tomb, and two words that change everything. And Peter. Watch and share with someone who needs this word today. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ederrikporter.substack.com/subscribe [https://ederrikporter.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]