I share reflections from my walk with God—studying Scripture, exploring faith, and speaking from the heart. My hope is that my journey will encourage and inspire you in your own. For more resources and insights connected to each episode, visit my blog at PrMarlon.com.
The First Judgment: What Genesis 3 Reveals About God's Character
Adam and Eve sewed themselves clothes and solved their problem. So why were they still hiding?
Part two of the series on judgment goes back to the first judgment scene in the Bible. God walks into the garden at the usual hour and asks a question he already knows the answer to. Pastor Marlon works through why he asks it, what the serpent actually got right, and who gets cursed in Genesis 3. It may not be who you remember. The fig leaves do not make it to the end of the chapter.
26 Sept 2026
What Does John 3:16 Really Mean? Understanding God's Judgment and Love
This is the first message in a new series on judgment, a subject Pastor Marlon admits he picked partly because it makes people anxious and he wanted to study it properly. He starts where you might not expect a judgment series to start, with the most familiar verse in the Bible, and with its context. Jesus is talking to Nicodemus, a man who lived by the strictest religious rules available, and the illustration he reaches for is the bronze serpent in the wilderness. Israel had rebelled, the consequence was real, and the remedy was absurdly simple. Look up and live. That same simplicity converted a soaked 15 year old who ducked into the wrong chapel during an 1850 blizzard and heard an unprepared layman tell him to look to Jesus. The boy was Charles Spurgeon. From there the sermon walks into the verses we tend to skip. God loves us in verse 16, God wants to save us in verse 17, and then verse 18 says the one who does not believe is condemned already. Pastor Marlon takes his time with what Jesus means by that, because the explanation is right there in verse 19. Condemnation is about loving darkness once the light has arrived. He puts it in terms most of us will recognize: Jesus shines a light into a corner of your life, and you either hand that thing over or ask him to turn the light back off. If you have ever worried that one forgotten sin disqualifies you, this message is probably for you.
19 Sept 2026
How Then Shall We Live?
Pastor Marlon puts his main idea on the table in the first two minutes: because Jesus saves us by grace, we don't obey to earn salvation; we obey because we trust and love the Savior who saved us. He starts at the cross with the criminal hanging next to Jesus, a man who had nothing to offer and no time left to offer it, and who received the assurance of paradise anyway. Salvation rests entirely on Christ. But that doesn't make our actions irrelevant, and the question we usually ask about them is the wrong one. Instead of "is this a salvation issue," try asking whether life actually gets better or worse when we align with what God says. Genesis makes the point better than any argument. God's command in the garden was to eat freely of every tree, with one exception, and the serpent's whole strategy was to make that one exception the entire picture of God. Pastor Marlon admits he has done the same thing himself, describing his faith to curious friends as a list of things he doesn't do. Jesus goes after something deeper in Matthew 5, where anger and contempt land in the same category as murder, because he was never interested in list keeping. The message closes with his own story: baptized at 10, then a theology degree, then a master's, then ordination, then years of ministry. Was he more saved at the end of all that than he was at 10? No. So why do any of it? Why do good works? Because it blesses other people, and because it's how saved people live.
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