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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the past tense of lead is led.

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“Your decrees are very trustworthy; holiness befits your house, O [Yahweh], forevermore.” (Psalm‬ ‭93‬:‭5‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

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Love > frictionlessness

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The assumption that all innovation is necessarily progress can lead to serious regression.

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I can imagine several kinds of miserable existence. High on the list is scrolling through social media in search of people to troll and/or argue with.

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“[Christ] was ordained to be put into the state and condition of a sinner in our stead; not into the practical and experimental state of sin, but the penal state of a sinner, to be a sacrifice for it, not to be polluted with it.” -Stephen Charnock

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“Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, & Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, w/ all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of [Yahweh] their God, & the words of Haggai the prophet, as [Yahweh] their God had sent him. And the people feared [Yahweh].” (Haggai 1:12)

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“For though [Yahweh] is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.” (Psalm 138:6 ESV)

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If we think love should be easy, we show we don’t understand what it is.

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Watching Amazon’s “House of David” and am generally impressed so far. Nice to see a film based on biblical accounts whose characters aren’t speaking with British accents.

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There are numerous things for which being ashamed is appropriate. Not acting shamefully isn’t among them.

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“The modern soul finds itself divided. In one hand, we hold a device—a small, glowing rectangle that promises connection, knowledge, and distraction. In the other hand: nothing. And it is this nothing that terrifies us.” open.substack.com/pub/dostoevs...

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“The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this: that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever; but you, O [Yahweh], are on high forever.” (Psalm 92:6-8 ESV)

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Some laughs are so expensive they’re tragic.

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“Education has never been about ease. It has been about struggle. Study is hard work. Learning is a task! This is not Luddism; this is a plea against the creeping erosion of 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 as a virtue.” open.substack.com/pub/romaterm...

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“This is going to be great television.” -Donald J. Trump A suitable quote to mark the 40th anniversary of 𝘈𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘖𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩

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Imagine if there was such a thing as a spiritual, Luminol-like substance that could indicate the presence of contempt.

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This was my favorite pencil to mark books with. I couldn’t find it so I bought another of the same model (only blue). Yesterday I found the original hiding on my desk. Now I have two favorite pencils to mark books with.

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“Many profess to be Christians merely because they are attracted to the mainstream teachings like the golden rule, turning the other cheek, the Good Samaritan, and so on. But therein lies the problem.” open.substack.com/pub/blakealo...

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I received words of encouragement from a Barnabus-like friend that brought me to tears. God’s kindness through his people is priceless.

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“The speed with which we’ve adopted machine language suggests that, in subtle ways, we now see ourselves in mechanistic terms. Whenever we adapt our language to the machine’s vocabulary, we can’t help but reimagine life in less-than-human categories.” www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...

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“[Jesus] said to him a second time, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love me?’ He said to him, ‘Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.’ He said to him, ‘Tend my sheep.’” (John 21:16 ESV) There is no love for the Shepherd where there is not care for his sheep.

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Outstanding episode from @trevinwax.bsky.social looking at how digital life is shaping us, our perceptions, expectations, and relationships, featuring @lmsacasas.bsky.social, Christine Rosen, and @samueldjames.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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The ubiquitousness of generative AI confronts Christian students with the continuous temptation to violate standards of academic integrity. Contemplating the spiritual battle involved is grievous and alarming.

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“Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.” (Proverbs 26:17 ESV) There are dog ears for the taking on social media.

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My “want to read” list is a constant reminder of my mortality.

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“The phrasing of "unintended consequences" is often a euphemism. These consequences are not so much unintended as unconsidered, and often intentionally so.” open.substack.com/pub/joshbrak...

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This is an excellent essay that dovetails nicely with a chapter in Tim Keller’s Making Sense of God in which he describes the secular strategies we employ to explain and escape our discontent. “There is no unmixed joy.” Hard to swallow, but liberating truth. open.substack.com/pub/samueldj...

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Give us this day our daily bread, and make us content with and grateful for it.

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Enjoying the experience of reading this so far, not only for the content, but for its construction. Something of this size (over 400 pages) could be a hassle, but the crease in the cover makes holding the book open easy and does no harm to the binding. Well done, @lexhampress.com!

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“Divine revelation generates a responsibility not merely to think God’s thoughts after him but to seek 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 the knowledge of God, rather than knowledge of ourselves.” -Robert S Smith, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘎𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴

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“Since then we are to discourse of the things of God, let us assume that God has full knowledge of Himself, and bow with humble reverence to His words. For He whom we can know only through his own utterances is a fitting witness concerning himself.” -Hilary of Poitiers

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The fear of man is the friend of falsehood.

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“In a reversal of the old aphorism ‘as goes the church, so goes society,’ the reality now tends to be ‘𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺, 𝘴𝘰 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩.’” -Robert S. Smith, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘎𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴

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“For no profession makes a man blessed, but that which is accompanied with an alienation of the heart from sin; nor does any thing do that when this holy fear [of God] is wanting.” -John Bunyan

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“Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.” (Proverbs‬ ‭12‬:‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

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Just wanna say that Christus Victor is an amazing song that demands being belted out!

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Contemporary life is filled with content and discontent.

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An outstanding presentation pushing back strongly and intelligently against the insistence/assumption that ed tech is necessary for and advantageous to school children. youtube.com/watch?v=7V6n...

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Social media has made it possible to spit into the wind faster than ever before.

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The odds are high that this platform isn’t good for all you’re using it for.

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“Barba-Kay understands that our technologies are, by and large, what we have asked for, the projection of our own wills and the fulfillment of our own wishes.” -Brad Littlejohn open.substack.com/pub/bradlitt...

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