Cam Goede

Imagine how powerful Twitter would be if there was less time spent arguing about people and more time devoted to debating ideas.

@w_bitterman @stevelaubeagent Amazing. May your inspired words continue to be shared with more people. To God’s glory!

Big news this morning. I officially signed with @stevelaubeagent to represent my book project. Grateful. Humbled. Excited. The Lord opens doors we could never force open ourselves.

Guess who’s on two weeks vacation!!

My post for this week. Enjoy and make sure you get out and enjoy the sun this weekend!! open.substack.com/pub/camerongoe…

Sometimes peace can be found simply by walking a trail with a furry companion equally enthralled with the beauty of it all.

My Mother’s Day message. Best wishes to all of the incredible moms out there, the women who hold everything together with their love and strength. Thank you for everything you do!! open.substack.com/pub/camerongoe…

It amazes me how life lessons come to us throughout our lives, and often in the most ordinary moments. My latest post. open.substack.com/pub/camerongoe…

@w_bitterman I was unaware of his story prior to recently hearing him interviewed on the Interesting Times with Ross Douthat podcast and was left speechless by his faith. So much wisdom in his words and in your commentary as well.

Ben Sasse Is Dying and Telling the Truth The diagnosis did not make Ben Sasse a dying man. It made him an honest one. Most of us spend our days polishing the jar. We tend the calendar, answer the texts and make the plan for next month and next fall and five years from now. We move through bright kitchens and parking lots and church foyers with the quiet assumption that time is ours in workable portions. Then one sentence from a doctor can split the room open and let the truth rush in like cold air. Sasse has spoken from that place with unusual plainness. He said he was given a three to four month life expectancy and that he is now living on “extended time already.” He has also called his cancer “a touch of grace because it forces me to tell the truth.” That is the line that stays with me…forces me to tell the truth. A man does not need a terminal diagnosis to become mortal. He needs one to stop pretending. Paul opens the cupboard and brings out the cracked dishes. “We have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us” (2 Corinthians 4:7). God places His jewel in a clay jar. He puts the glory of Christ in fragile people so nobody mistakes the source of the power. A clay jar is useful. A clay jar is common. A clay jar breaks. That is where American Christians often get disoriented. We know the verses. We confess the doctrines. Then we still live as if faithful people ought to feel sturdy all the time. We think obedience should make life feel steadier. Then pressure comes. Fear comes. The body weakens. The phone rings at dusk. The scan lights up and the biopsy comes back. The doctor pauses too long. Paul does not sound surprised. “We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed” (2 Corinthians 4:8-9). God keeps His people alive under pressure. Christians are ordinary people, suffering people, dying people, yet held up by a power that does not come from force of personality. Sasse is not revealing a new truth. He is revealing an old one most of us keep covered with busyness. The body is a jar of clay. Flesh gives way. Life keeps moving anyway. Then one day a man realizes that every ordinary sound has been happening on the edge of eternity. He said cancer forces him to tell the truth. One of the truths he has told is better than all the others. “Jesus did everything on the cross to fulfill the whole law. I fulfilled none of it. He fulfilled all of it, and he took away all of my sins.” There is the treasure in the jar! When death comes close enough to sit down beside your bed and wait, the old religious games lose their charm. A man stops boasting in his record. He stops rearranging his merits into a ladder. Christ becomes bread, water, blood, righteousness, refuge. Christ becomes the difference between terror and peace. Paul says we are “always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies” (2 Corinthians 4:10). There are losses that come only because we belong to Christ. There are wounds, pressures, refusals, sacrifices, disappointments and private griefs that would never have come to us on another road. Yet life comes out of death. That is the shape of the gospel itself. Christ went down into the grave and came out alive and His people live that pattern in smaller ways all through their lives. American Christians need that reminder badly. We live in a country that teaches us to manage appearances, protect comfort and treat inconvenience as a kind of injustice. Even in church we can start talking as if the highest good is a decent retirement and a body that cooperates. Then God allows the jar to crack and suddenly we can see what has been true all along. We were never strong anb certainly never sovereign. Paul keeps going. “Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16). That sentence does not deny decay. It stares right at it. Skin loosens. Hands tremble. Names slip. Energy thins out. The outer man wastes away in plain sight. Behind that wasting, God is building something. It’s like scaffolding coming down while the real structure rises behind it. The visible frame weakens while God prepares a glory that will outlast the sun. This is where the Christian either sees or refuses to see. “For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison” (2 Corinthians 4:17). Paul is not mocking pain. He has been beaten, hunted, pressed, and exhausted. He is weighing things. On one side of the scale, every pressure of this present life. On the other, glory. The scale drops hard toward glory every time. Affliction is brief and glory is eternal. That is the truth a sick man can help healthy people hear. Ben Sasse has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and was told he is going to die. He has spoken openly about that reality and he has spoken openly about Christ. Reuters reported his diagnosis in December 2025, and he has since described himself as living on borrowed days, days he receives as gift rather than possession. He cannot tell the truth for us. He can only tell it near enough for us to hear our own hearts more clearly. Every one of us is on extended time already. The stronger man is not the one who keeps that fact out of his mind. The wiser man is the one who lets it drive him straight to Christ. Not to borrowed language about faith. To Christ crucified for sinners. A Christ who fulfilled all righteousness. To Christ who took away sin and who will raise His people up. “We look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen” (2 Corinthians 4:18). That is where this whole matter settles. Seen things fill the table. Unseen things rule the world. The IV pole, the grave, the tears, the dwindling strength, the aging face in the mirror, all of it is temporary. Christ is not temporary. Christ endures. The resurrection stands. The kingdom cannot be shaken. The jar will break. The treasure will not.

My latest. open.substack.com/pub/camerongoe…

@MacFarlaneNews @AnIllicitWriter Why stop there? Why not just rename the country to the United States of Trump and change New Year’s Day to Trump day?

Updated list of US House GOP bills that would honor Trump 1) Carve his face into Mt. Rushmore 2) Rename Palm Beach airport after Trump 2a) Rename Dulles airport after Trump 3) Require State Dept to award a "Trump Peace Prize" 4) Declare Trump's birthday a federal holiday 5) Award Trump a Congressional Gold Medal 6) Mint a $250 bill in US currency w/ Trump's image 7) Several resolutions urging Trump be given Nobel Prize 8) Directing N.I.H. to conduct research on "Trump Derangement Syndrome"

My latest Substack. #faith open.substack.com/pub/camerongoe…

@megbasham I have a doctors appointment later this week. I’m so looking forward to seeing him in his white robe and sash.

And now he has. The president told the press pool he did not think it was a depiction of him as Jesus but a depiction of him as a physician or doctor.

Glad to see the president has deleted the offensive post. Would be helpful if the administration addressed it.

@draloneboy Said differently, “I didn’t get something shiny and now I’m really really mad!!”

President Trump reportedly received a text message from Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre urging Trump to lower the temperature and “de-escalate” the rhetoric on Greenland. Trump fired back with a BRUTAL one-liner that ended the conversation. Here’s how the exchange went: STØRE: “Dear Mr. President, dear Donald: We believe we all should work to take this down and de-escalate.” TRUMP: “Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 wars plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.”

He is risen!!!

@highbrow_nobrow The level of embarrassing stupidity continues to find new lows. Just when you think they’ve sunk to the bottom, surprise!!, they find a new, not previously discovered basement.

"We're not at war, we have no intention at being at war. The president and the DOD have made it very clear, this is a limited operation." - Mike Johnson says there’s no need to constrain Trump’s war powers since the U.S. isn’t actually at war. (Mar. 2026)

@tyromper I like this. At the start of this year, rather than just setting goals, I created a personal mission statement, quite similar to what you wrote above. I read it each morning and build my day and my plans through that lens. I’ve found it to be incredibly powerful.

Declarations I say every morning; • I will provide, protect, & lead my family today. I am a man of integrity and honor. I have self-discipline & will run towards or through any obstacle that comes my way. • Temptation will not distract me from my God given destiny & goals. CHRIST IN ME IS STRONGER THAN ANY WRONG DESIRE IN ME. • Tinlie, Kingston & Tyson are blessed children  of God. I will train, empower, instruct & equip them to do more for the kingdom of God than they could ever imagine. I will love and protect them and be the example they look up to.  • I will lay down my life everyday to serve Annie. I will always give her the benefit of the doubt. Our marriage is one of unity, passion, love & friendship with God in the center. Our marriage is blessed by God and nothing can break that. • I can’t choose what happens to me today, but I can choose how I respond. I choose joy, gratitude & a positive spirit always. Challenges sharpen me & I grow through them. BECOME THE PROPHET OF YOUR LIFE! From my family to yours, Go have a powerful day! 🤝

My latest Substack. Thank you @yhbryankimiq for the inspiration!! open.substack.com/pub/camerongoe…

@RevZekveld I am reading a year long deep dive into the book of Romans right now. It’s by RC Sproul and I am truly appreciating the depth that he takes us into this incredible piece of scripture.

Some of my favourite Bible commentators - Peter Leithart, Dale Ralph Davis, Keil & Delitzsch, Lenski, James Jordan, Chrysostom, John Calvin, Matthew Henry, CH Spurgeon, Doug Wilson, Patrick Schreiner. I'm sure there are a few I have missed.

@jimcymbala @MMcLaughlinsong We have regular small groups where prayer is a significant component. Our church is pretty busy most nights. I’m in a bi-weekly men’s group that is incredibly spiritually nurturing and I can’t adequately express my level of gratitude for that.

“Why aren’t there more prayer meetings in our churches? I’m convinced that the main reason is that pastors know the folks won’t come due to their lukewarm spiritual condition. . . . But can’t we start somewhere, even if it means just two or three hearty souls?” Fan the Flame

@RevZekveld The finding of a good church is key. The Lord drew me and my family to a truly wonderful one, and for that I’m grateful every single day.

I’m Canada, the revolution is pummelling us from so many directions that it is difficult to know where to concentrate energy. Murder. Mutilation. Censorship. Mass shifts in cultural/religious makeup with immigration. Socialism. Decay of the family. Keep naming various parts of the structure that are crumbling. There are a couple starting points for the solution. Set your heart on eternity. Then go out. Find a good church. Shepherd your family. Build community. Love the people around you. This godless system is destined for collapse and we should have strong relationships with those around us when that collapse comes.