What's up! My name is Josh! Jesus has been showing me over the past couple months that I need to depend on Him more. There were a lot of areas in my life in which I had control over and it's as if I am giving Him one thing after another as I grow in my relationship with Him!

It is Friday. Before we head into the weekend I want to pray for every single person in this community by name. Drop your prayer request below -- anything. Health, family, faith, work, a battle you are in right now. I am reading every one and praying over them tonight. No request is too small. No situation too far gone. Drop it below. We are believing together. -- Brian

I want to be honest with you today. I have tried to build something with Pure Grit Faith before. Multiple times. And every single time it fell apart. Not because the designs were wrong. Not because the message was off. But because I never had a real plan and I kept trying to do it alone. This time is different. I spent all day yesterday and today building something I genuinely believe God put on my heart. A free community where serious believers can grow deeper, stronger, and more fearless in Christ. Real theology. Real talk. No performance. And I want to be clear about something -- I love the church. I believe in the local church. You should be planted in one. But I also know that a lot of believers are hungry for more depth, more accountability, and more boldness in their faith than they know how to find. That is what this place is for. I am also going to be teaching everything I know about going on mission trips. Romania. Uganda. Burkina Faso. Juarez. How to get there. What to expect. How to share the Gospel in places that will wreck you in the best possible way. September I am headed to Japan. None of that happens without community behind you. So here is my question for you today -- and I want a real answer: What is one area of your faith where you know God is calling you deeper but you keep finding reasons to wait? Drop it below. No judgment. Just truth. -- Brian

Thirty years behind a tattoo machine. Romania. Uganda. Burkina Faso. Juarez. Russia, Columbia, and everywhere in between. An ACBC counseling degree almost complete. A life that should have gone a completely different direction. And somewhere in all of that -- God wrecked me. Completely. Took everything I thought I was and replaced it with something I never expected. I built Pure Grit Faith because I kept seeing believers wearing their faith like a costume instead of a conviction. Soft slogans on pastel shirts for a Gospel that turned the world upside down. That is not the Jesus I met. The Jesus I met cost me everything. And I would not trade a single scar for any of it. This community is for the man or woman who knows exactly what I mean. So let me ask you this -- and I want real answers, not Sunday morning answers: What is the one thing God has refused to let you run from? Drop it below. No judgment. No fluff. Just truth. -- Brian