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It’s happened several times in the last few weeks – I’ve saved money by ordering on walmart.com, and I’ve gotten in quicker. In my most recent purchase, I saved our church $84. I ordered six copies each of five different…

We are guilty of “perpetual novelty… We check our smartphones upwards of 200 times per day… trapped in a loop of discontinuous instants…? perfect novelty is our oxygen.”? ~ Brett McCracken in The Wisdom Pyramid

“Prayer is the natural outgushing of a soul in communion with Jesus. Just as the leaf and the fruit will come out of the vine-branch without any conscious effort on the part of the branch, but simply because of its…

You won’t see them on MSM, but there are massive protests with tens of thousands of people happening across the world in response to totalitarian governmental overreach related to COVID. Here’s a protest in Germany.

Seriously thinking about moving my blog to Substack and making it subscription-based. I’ve started a “stack” there. The thought is to have some posts available to anyone, but the posts I put more energy and thoughtfulness into would be subscriber-only.

The history of worship in acapella…

If you claim to be a Christian and live a powerless, spiritually boring life, there’s something wrong. It’s not Him. It’s you. Wake up.

“Grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites. Working for your salvation is a heresy. Working out your salvation is basic Bible. Grace and effort are allies.” ~ Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe??

“The church, however, is not the enemy of the Christian family, but its devoted ally and fullest destiny. Healthy families know how desperately they need the church, and they gladly build their lives around her, in order to serve, nurture,…