The Hard Fought Faith
A place for those wrestling with their faith, in the valley, and who are walking alone.
Genuine testimonies from those who’ve walked before you.
No avoiding the painful.
Just Hard Fought Faith.
Stories of Endurance
The Hard Fought Faith conversation archives and devotionals walk through the testimonies of believers who have walked the path of Hard Fought Faith- the good and the hard. Each conversation will have a topic title to help you know what the conversation will focus on.
You can listen to these long-form conversations all in order, out of order, or even just by the topic that applies to your walk. Listen to them all… just one… whatever you need.
Here you will find that you are not alone.
If you listen and never respond—that’s just fine. These conversations are meant to meet you where you are.
This is the Lord’s, and all things are in His timing.
Devotionals and Journal Pages
The Hard Fought Faith Devotionals are a place to find fellowship while walking the hard path, hope for what comes, and honesty in the wrestling.
The journal pages are the “songs” I wrote, my own laments and triumphs, while I was in the middle of my seasons of hardship. I used this format to pour out my confusion, pain, hope, and relief in the Lord. These aren’t works of art, but an honest look into my heart during a season where I struggled to articulate what I felt.
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Prodigal’s Father
“…But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.” Luke 15:20 ESV The wilderness is disquieting. When walking in that season of pain, I penned lyric after lyric describing how it…
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The Hard Fought Faith: Even When Surrender Hurts
Episode 4 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7iaGAAc26LRD7JIz58uMEF?si=LQB4Pyb4RNeBfo1_NPzdFQ Trapped under a burning truck… hearing the crushing news that a friend had died without ever telling him about Jesus…leaving behind a lucrative job for the unknown in ministry…finding out that the housing his family needed was going…
The Hard Fought Faith Podcast
Hard Fought Faith is not intended to suggest that all faith is suffering—or that faith only grows with struggle. Hard Fought Faith is about recognizing that the faith walk includes refining (ouch), persecution (double ouch), and general hardships in life. The good news—even when you know what it means to wrestle with God or difficulty, it does not mean you always will. And, even more promising, there is a joy and peace that is built with Hard Fought Faith that storms of life can’t drown out.
Our fight isn’t against the Lord, but the enemy and the hardships of a world that is dying.
We acknowledge the hard, but we don’t live there.
We plant roots and grow in the Lord there.
Need encouragement or feeling alone? Listen here:
Episode 2
Even Here: When God Calls You to Go
Episode 3
Even in the Painful
Episode 4 Coming July 16, 2026
Even in the Painful
Why We Are Here
As I sat in a church service, listening to the pastor preach on victory, I felt a familiar frustration. Victory, without context…can be cruel.
Imagine that same pastor standing at the bedside of a mother whose child has just passed from a cancer battle. Preaching victory.
Victory IS the inheritance of every believer. But if you’ve planted roots in the valley, thirsted in the desert, or been tossed by the waves of difficulty, you know that Hard Fought Faith, the kind that roots into the impossible because of the God of the impossible, doesn’t get the guarantee of earthly good.
And still we have faith.
Lost? Broken? Tired of shallow faith?
Welcome.
