Christians need to hear an absolution from pastors. We need to tell our congregations, every week: What God says about you is the truth. The real you is the forgiven, victorious, glorious, powerful you. “Believe this, and rejoice.”

North American brothers and sisters. I just heard a guy end his talk with ‘Amen… Awesome’. I’m confused, do you think he’s saying? a. His talk was awesome b. We listeners are awesome c. Life is generally awesome d. God is awesome (his talk was not about this btw)

#L4Congress

1/ The stats from The Quiet Revival report are fascinating. 🔵 Since 2018, the churchgoing population of England & Wales has increased from 8% to 12%. 🔵 For 18-24 year olds, the increase has been huge: a change from 4% to 16%. Anecdotally this matches what I see in Edinburgh.

“The uniquely compelling grace and truth of Jesus Christ has the resilience to stand against culture’s untruths and beckons those who have turned away to return to God” How to Live in the ‘Negative World’ - Christianity Today christianitytoday.com/2025/04/how-li…

“Grace without truth tends toward relativism. Truth without grace may be provocative but quickly sours into condemnatory moralism and excludes those who fall on the wrong side of the line.” How to Live in the ‘Negative World’ - Christianity Today christianitytoday.com/2025/04/how-li…

I composed this original song to Peter Nicholas ‘s lyrics for our sermon series Redeemer Downtown 🥰

The classical key to the AI revolution engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-cla… ✍️ John Tasioulas via Engelsberg Ideas 👉 Only by reviving the classical conception of democracy, distinct from liberal democracy, can our societies reconcile the myriad opportunities and challenges unleashed by AI

The amazing CS Lewis predicted what social media will do to people.

A real response to many of our societies' ills requires a healing of the antagonisms between the sexes. We need embodied visions of masculinity and femininity in which both can rise to their full stature in generous virtue and mutual giving of honour.

A perversely feminized society most effectively sustains itself in reaction against a perversely masculinized society. And vice versa. We need to resist both, by pursuing a society with a generous communion of men and women, not merely in marriage, but across society.

The juvenile and transgressive culture of an online masculinized right preoccupied with reacting against a feminized progressive culture is a dead end. There is a better way. We can pursue virtue, maturity, self-mastery, sobriety, excellence, temperance, grace, and peace.

I’d love to see this devotional resource come into being. Matt Searles has a knack of getting to the heart of things. Check out the kickstarter here kickstarter.com/projects/matts…

General revelation

thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/tgc-p… Such an excellent discussion and thoughtful critique of Keller's ministry.

We must not think of God's holiness as opposed to God's blessing, God's holiness is the source of God's blessing

I think I witnessed a peak NYC interaction. A blind man walking down the car of a moving subway train. Seated New Yorker calls out, "Fool, y'all!" about to hit the door." "Thank you" replies the blind man "No problem!" the other guy responds. No offence implied, none taken

In 1936, Tolkien published a Christmas poem called "Noel" in the annual journal of a Catholic school near Oxford. For about 80 years the text of the poem was lost to history until Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull visited the school and found it in the archives. Here is the poem:

The Problem with the Evangelical Elite firstthings.com/the-problem-wi… An insightful and helpfully provoking article by Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸

Having teen Instagram accounts is like having teen cigarettes and claiming they have less nicotine than adult cigarettes - history teaches us that big business cannot self-regulate