Pastor Roy's Passion For Writing
Pastor Roy's passion for writing is best described as prophetic urgency meeting pastoral precision.
Writing isn't a hobby or a platform-building exercise for Roy — it's an extension of the same calling that put him behind a pulpit in Sierra Vista.
He writes because there are things the church needs to hear that aren't being said clearly enough, or being said at all.
He writes to say what cheap theology destroyed. Roy has an aversion to emotional manipulation in the pulpit — born directly from watching people's faith collapsed under pressure because it was built on nothing — this drives his writing the same way it drives his preaching. He's not interested in inspiring people with false sentiments and emotions. Roy primary aim is to ground and fortify people in the truth.
He writes as a trainer, not just a practitioner. Roy writes to encourage and equip young pastors and ministry leaders. Roy is just working out his theology on paper, like most writers. Roy is supplying spiritual weapons frontline theologians leading Bible studies in their homes.
If I could describe Pastor Roy's passion for writing in a single sentence. Roy writes because he sees silence on maters of faith and doctrine a pastoral failure.
Tracing the Thread is a practical systematic theology and Bible study guide written specifically for small group leaders, lay ministers, and church leaders without formal theological training. Built around the Thread Method — a four-criteria system drawn directly from the apostolic witness — this book equips everyday believers to identify sound doctrine, trace it through Scripture, teach it with confidence, and defend it against false teaching.
In Stranger in the Household, Pastor Roy introduces a term for the person the consumer church has been producing for decades: the Identity Hybrid. This is the person who has attended faithfully, completed every program, served on every team, and still carries a persistent hollowness beneath all of it — a foreigner who has learned the language fluently but has never been issued the passport. He is not a hypocrite. He is not a backslider. He is the sincere and faithful product of a system that enrolled him before he was converted, equipped him before he was born again, and handed him an identity he never died to receive.
The decent man walking toward hell is the most dangerous idea in Christianity. Because he looks exactly like you.
He pays his taxes. He coaches his son's soccer team. He believes in God in the way that most people believe in God — generally, comfortably, and without much urgency. He has heard the gospel at Easter and at Christmas. He has always assumed there was more time.
Heaven or Hell opens on that man, follows him through his last night on earth, and then descends with him into the reality that Jesus described more frequently than any other subject—hell.
This is not a comfortable book to read. It was not written to be. It’s shockingly horrifying and gloriously wonderful. It was written to do what the church has largely stopped doing — describe both eternal destinations with biblical integrity the way the Jesus, the prophets, and the apostles described heaven and hell in their day.
This book is for the reader who must know where he or she will arrive in eternity. This book is a serious read because heaven and hell or serious subjects. Read it with eternity in mind.
Where others began their study of the Holy Spirit somewhere in the middle of the text. I began my journey at the very beginning, Genesis 1:2 – the Spirit hovering over the formless deep before anything exists to redeem.
Called and Gifted traces the Holy Spirit's self-revelation sequentially through the whole counsel of Scripture — from creation through the patriarchs, the judges, the prophets, the exile, and the New Covenant promises of the Old Testament, through the Gospels, Acts, the apostolic letters, and the letters to the seven churches in Revelation — allowing the Holy Spirit to declare Himself through the Scriptures.
AI awakened me at 2:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Not literally, but psychologically. Why was I awake at this hour, arguing with AI about sermon language?
This is my confession. Not a condemnation of AI, not blind advocacy--but an honest account of how my use of a simple AI chatbot reshaped my ministry without my awareness, and in ways I never thought possible.
I had gone too far with AI. I lost my way, and I struggled to find my way back, struggling alone in silence, fearful of how my congregation would respond.
I remained silent.
The worst part: the detachment and the nagging sense of guilt.
I decided it was time to break the silence.
If you've wondered whether you've gone too far with AI, you're not alone.
