As it turns out, spending hours & hours each day scrolling through our social media feeds and watching cable news has not formed us into wise people.

Just because God can use fools and idiots and crooked rulers and disciples who betray the faith to fulfill His sovereign purposes, doesn’t mean that we should give our undying and unqualified allegiance to fools and idiots and crooked rulers and disciples who betray the faith.

A Word.

A Word

“For, in your security, you are seeking not a republic of peace but unpunished extravagance; you were depraved by prosperity, but you could not be corrected by adversity.” Augustine, The City of God

In the 20th century (generally speaking), “Protestant Christians set out to make America Christian and ended up making Christianity American.” - Stanley Hauerwas

Having spent the last half century filling the vacuum of ecclesiology in evangelicalism with worldly principles of productivity, scalability & profitability, we now find ourselves unable to articulate what the church is & why it gathers when such principles cannot be achieved.

This was a fantastic episode. Thanks Cultivated Podcast

Diener 2020 Andy, keep your body to yourself.

Remember that this God in whose hand are all creatures, is your Father, and is much more tender of you than you are, or can be, of yourself. Flavel

Read books written by people outside your tribe. Echo chambers are a cesspool for lazy thinking.

Moms are like velcro. They hold everything together, and I have no dang clue how.

Preparing a talk for investors and thinking about the correlation between safety and anxiety. Pursue safety, you become more anxious. Pursue meaningful risk, you become more resilient. Because on the other side of meaningful risk, even when the worst happens, you find rescue.

Disordered passions, or what Eugene Peterson calls an “unscripted life,” sabotage our desires to mature, they derail our best efforts to improve, and they distract us from our true calling by deceiving us into believing there is an easy way—a way that doesn’t demand effort.

The problem with the “confront your family about politics on Thanksgiving” thing isn’t that we can’t influence our families or shouldn’t have those conversations, it’s thinking one tense dinner will do it. Long, compassionate faithfulness > “bold” one-time confrontation.

I can’t recommend this highly enough

Kyrie Eleison

Holy Weekend reminds us that God has always had a long game. We play so short sometimes and have no endurance for long. God, help us endure the short, believing in the long.

the more you continue to step in as a bandaid to a bad situation the longer it will go unfixed. it might be time to remove yourself, let things collapse and break down, so it can finally be addressed.