Conrad Rocks | Spiritual Warfare, Supernatural Faith & Kingdom Living

  I'm sitting here in my home with a fresh cup of coffee in my hand. Outside, the Southern morning is just starting to wake up, but inside, it's quiet. The house is still. It’s in these moments, when I’m alone with the Word, that I often think about the "Scribes" I’ve been talking about lately. You know the ones—the folks who treat the Bible like a dead museum piece rather than a living, breathing encounter with the Creator of the universe. Have you ever sat down to read your Bible and felt like you were just scanning a grocery list? You know the words are important, you know they're holy, but they just aren't hitting you? That's the pain point so many of us face. We go to church, we hear the monologue from the pulpit, and we walk away feeling like we've checked a box, but our spirits are still hungry. We’re starving in the midst of a feast because we haven’t learned how to actually eat the bread of life ourselves. We've been taught to rely on ...

Welcome to another edition of Coffee with Conrad. I am sitting here in my study, the steam rising from my mug, and I am thinking about you. My passion, as always, is for you to have a deep, vibrant, and supernatural relationship with the biblical Jesus. But sometimes, there are things standing in the way that we don't even realize are there. Have you ever sat in a pew, following along in your faithful translation, while the pastor reads from something else? You look down at your page, then look up at him, and you think, "Wait a minute... that's not what that means. They aren't the same thing!" I have said it once and I will say it a thousand times: two things that are not the same thing are not the same thing. We are living in a world of paraphrases and endless translations, and it can get muddy. In my last podcast, I went on about the word "unicorn" in the King James Bible. It makes some people's subconscious minds spin out of control, like they n...

  I want you to close your eyes for a moment and travel back to your earliest memories of Sunday School. Maybe you were five or six years old, sitting on a colorful rug, swinging your legs while a teacher opened a heavy, black-bound book. For many of us, that was our first encounter with the King James Bible. But even before we could read those "thees" and "thous," our heads were already filled with images from the world around us. We had picture books filled with glitter, rainbows, and majestic white horses with single, spiraling horns leaping through the clouds. We knew those creatures as unicorns. Then, one day, you’re leafing through the scriptures as an adult, perhaps trying to find a word of comfort in the Psalms or a bit of wisdom in Job, and your eyes snag on a word that feels like it belongs in a fairy tale rather than the holy Word of God. You see it there, plain as day: "unicorn." Suddenly, a wave of cognitive dissonance hits you. You’ve been t...

  I was sitting in my recording closet the other day, the scent of fresh coffee filling the small space, and I found myself scrolling through a blog post. I was tired—the kind of tired where your eyes start to play tricks on you. I hit the word "content." In my mind, I read it as being "satisfied" or "at peace." But as I kept reading, the sentences stopped making sense. I had to stop, rub my eyes, and realize the author was talking about "digital content"—the substance of the page. That one little slip, that one tiny assumption about a single word, completely changed how I perceived the entire message. This is the trap so many of us fall into when we open our Bibles. We assume that because we are reading English, we are getting the exact, unfiltered heartbeat of God. We think of language like a simple math equation: one word in Spanish equals one word in English. But the truth is much more complex, and frankly, more dangerous if we aren't c...

  Beware of the Scribes:  I was sitting in the passenger seat of a car recently, just watching the world go by through the window. It was one of those quiet afternoons where your mind starts to wander, and you think you’re just observing the scenery. Then, I saw it. A political bumper sticker on the car ahead of us. It wasn't just a logo; it represented a whole denomination of thought that I happen to disagree with. In an instant, something shifted in my spirit. Before I could even catch myself, I wasn't just looking at a sticker anymore. I started looking at the driver's yard as we passed their house. I began judging the condition of their lawn. I looked into their open garage and started making mental notes about the clutter inside. I was judging a man I had never met, all because of a few inches of vinyl on a bumper. This is the "leaven" Jesus warned us about, and it’s a lot more dangerous than we think. We often walk through life with these presuppositional ...

  Beware the Leaven If you are new here, our goal is simple: we want to hit the bullseye of our best possible relationship with Jesus Christ. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and we must keep our eyes fixed on the Author and Finisher of our faith. I want you to travel back in time with me for a moment. Picture a small, brightly lit room in a church basement around the year 2000. The air smelled of that specific mixture of old hymnals and lukewarm coffee. I was sitting in a new member discipleship class, eager to learn, surrounded by people who truly loved the Lord. At the front of the room was a woman—a dear, sold-out sister in Christ—who was teaching us with all the passion in the world. As she reached a pivotal point in the scripture, she paused to define a word. She reached down, picked up a thick, heavy book, and began reading the definition. But it wasn't a Greek lexicon or a Hebrew concordance. It was a standard Webster’s Dictionary. In that moment, a cold realization ...

When i was in the New Age, i noticed that most Christians glazed over and flat out ignored supernatural/spiritual bible passages. That is one of the main reasons i left Christianity. I had a lot of Supernatural experiences as a child. Christians didn't have the answers to my supernatural experiences but the new agers were all too eager to offer answers. Even though they were the wrong ones. Lots of New Agers actually quote the bible to Christians and the Christians don't know how to respond. Such as Ecclesiastes 12:6,7 - New Agers biblical proof text for astral projection. or John 1:48 New Agers biblical proof text for remote viewing. Christians that were seeking the spiritual aspect of Christianity but couldn't find it in their churches were flocking to false teachers such as Hindus like Paramahansa Yogananda. Paramahansa Yogananda could quote the bible better than most Christians. And he became very popular with his Hindu slant on the scriptures. People flocked to h...