Dave Logan

Husband, father of two delightful boys, Christian, IT industry veteran, Technical Sales Specialist, Leader, Visionary, Change Agent, Mentor. Often Satirical

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

It has always bothered me that people use the phrase “It’s common sense”, when ironically it does not appear to be that common. In fact if we were being more precise it probably should be renamed “rare sense”…

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

@mamboitaliano__ Gained one :-) Great feed!

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

@mitchellvii Your question really hits at the heart of effective communication and persuasion. Proverbs 26:4-5 offers some timeless wisdom here: "Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, or you’ll be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, or he’ll become wise in his own eyes." At first glance, these verses seem contradictory, but they actually highlight a nuanced truth about engaging in arguments. Sometimes, responding to someone with facts is pointless if they’re too entrenched in their foolishness—they’ll just drag you down to their level, and you risk alienating them further, as you pointed out. Other times, you need to respond, not to win, but to expose the flaws in their reasoning so their folly doesn’t go unchallenged, potentially leading them to reflect later.

The challenge, unfortunately, is that it’s hard to know which approach applies in the heat of the moment. Do you risk alienating someone by pressing the facts, or do you hold back to preserve the relationship, hoping they’ll come around eventually? There’s no easy answer. A wise person once told me, “People will not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel.” That’s stuck with me. Even if you’re right on the facts, if you leave someone feeling attacked or dismissed, you might lose the chance to influence them in the long run. Balancing truth with empathy seems key—easier said than done in today’s polarized world!

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

@mitchellvii Marco Rubio - he has far exceeded expectations

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

@riseagainstevil Welcome! We are blessed to have you. Please send some of your fellow ex-pats to North Carolina. There is a distinct lack of biltong here, and I think you could make a good profit :-)

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

Those who partake in, fund, and support the current violent "protests" against the government and Elon show they are true sons of Satan. Puritan George Swinnock, preaching on 2 Timothy 2:26—"Taken captive by the devil at his will"—reminds us that the battle against Satan's oldest servants will be long and hard. So let us all be patient and dig in - this mess will not be fixed quickly.

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

@PeterSweden7 Unless the USA quickly tackles the Deep State, particularly the woke, fascist, Soros- and NGO-backed judges, we'll face the same fate soon. They're already targeting Trump and won't stop until they destroy us. As for the EU, they need strong leadership to stand up and resist now.

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

Puritan Joseph Sewall (1688-1769) had some very topical words to say to the government of the day.

TO our Honoured Rulers with all Humility. Give Glory to the Son of God by submitting to his Government, and by employing all your Power for the Advancement of his Kingdom. 1/7

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

@ladondo247 Every breath is a gift that none of us deserves. We are so blessed.

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

@MrBlakeRobbins @DrFrankTurek Modern, post enlightenment translations change things up a whole lot!

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

The more we have, the more we want; the flesh is never satisfied. Puritan John Boys, preaching on Galatians 5:17, "The flesh lusts against the Spirit," reminds us that those with the most are often the most covetous and greedy for more gain.

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

I often post about avoiding or fighting sin. If we don’t fight or truly understand our sin, we can never realize the greatness of God’s love for us in Christ Jesus. Puritan John Boys, preaching on 1 John 4:8, reminds us that God’s love for the chosen is infinite.

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

Government, The Bureaucracy itself and Individual contributors all need to have measurable, tracked, auditable, transparent goals and scorecards. Democracy would be so much better served if we could very simply trace the key decisions, waste and savings in a simple to use, widely available scorecard.

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

@banneroftruth @mljquotes I was particularly struck by the story of how the evangelical library came to be—oh, the tremendous wisdom of God—and how the library has indirectly affected so many of us. I didn’t realize there was an article too. I need to bookmark it and print a paper copy for my library!

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

Strangely enough, I listened to this on the MLJ app yesterday. On a somber occasion, Iain weaves a wonderful story, highlighting the blessing of dying slowly, putting affairs in order, and finishing the race well. It's worth a listen, not only for MLJ fans but also particularly encouraging for other ministers.

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

Are you struggling in your walk with Christ? The Bible encourages us to find godly mentors (Philippians 3:17) and follow traditional paths (Jeremiah 6:16). Puritan Thomas Adams notes that today's fashionable trends may later seem ridiculous. Think carefully before following them.

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

It's easy to deceive myself, judge my actions, compare myself to society's worst, and conclude I'm upright. Puritan Thomas Goodwin disagrees, urging us not to be wise in our own eyes (Proverbs 3:7) and to stay sober-minded (Titus 2:6). Christianity is of the whole man, inner and outer.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.

Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.

How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.

Trump refused the deal and look what happened.

Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.

They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.

It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.

They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

I hate that I have to often, daily, maybe even hourly say with Paul, oh wretched man that I am. But all praise to God that there are so many But God’s in the scripture! There is one good thing about sin, in that when we study it, we come to the conclusion that without Christ we are doomed and start to realize a little bit of the wonder and kindness of God’s grace towards us through Christ Jesus.

[Dave Logan @dlogan1970]

@ladondo247 Yes! We are so self-centered these days we even read books on self-worth and self-improvement - everything centers around the worship of man!