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PRACTICE: Worship— "If You Were the Devil..."

Oct 12, 2026  •  Brock Tharpe

What if we could sit in on a strategy meeting where the enemy was plotting against our spiritual lives? That is exactly the lens this message invites us to look through. Drawing from Romans 1:18-23, where Paul describes humanity exchanging the glory of the immortal God for mere images, we are walked through seven of the primary ways God reveals himself to us: through Jesus, through Scripture, through nature, through stillness and prayer, through community, through remembrance, and through suffering. The real power of this message comes when we flip the perspective and ask ourselves how an adversary whose entire mission is deception would go about blocking each one of those channels. The answers are uncomfortably familiar. Shortened attention spans, constant noise, isolation disguised as connection, an endless news cycle that breeds anxiety and forgetfulness, and easy escapes from the pain that God sometimes uses to draw us closest to himself. This is not abstract theology. This is a map of our daily lives, and recognizing the terrain may be one of the most practically useful things we can do for our faith.