Errrr, not entirely true. As a Christian, One of the tell tale signs that you are growing is that you actually feel things a lot more, but we never make how we feel the ultimate reality of our lives.
The power to not make feelings our ultimate reality comes from the Holy Spirit.
Anything else, you might as well be stoic and that would work perfectly as a world view. You don’t need the Holy Spirit to be impermeable to feelings.
Jesus cried, sighed, and was hurt a lot, it was his spirit that made him the grass that grew out of concrete. Not alienating his feelings, but leaning into his tender humanity and divinity.
I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.
A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.
The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.
And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.
It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.
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We’re bringing our operations to a close.
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Over the past two years, you’ve trusted us with tens of thousands of grocery orders, invited us into your homes, told your friends about us, and given us the opportunity to build something we’re deeply proud of.
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@marvincuche My wife saw your tweet and sent me a screenshot. I didn't want to put it out there till month end since we still building and then I figured why not build in public instead of waiting for the perfect conditions.
@marvincuche Thank you. Individuals can simply go ahead and sign up.
For churchs/organizations there is a button in org console where you can invite your church/org to sign up. Ones we verify the church they can go ahead and create branches under the church.
@marvincuche It's a faith based relationship application for singles looking to get married as well as for married people. It integrates churches/org to help build trust. I literally just pushed it to production today. You can check it out here.
https://t.co/Ut5jHnBwE4
@marvincuche Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. This exact problem is one I've experienced personally as a CCI member. Now that I'm married, I've realized the need goes far beyond matchmaking. I'm currently building a solution for this-and much more.
Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. This exact problem is one I've experienced personally as a CCI member. Now that I'm married, I've realized the need goes far beyond matchmaking. I'm currently building a solution for this-and much more.
There is also a conversation we need to have with Christian men.
Because some of you speak about women with an underhanded disdain that is deeply un-Christlike, then hide behind “biblical order” to justify it.
You cannot simply look at every Christian woman who resonates with feminism and dismiss her as rebellious. History has shown women have had reasons to fight. The Church is not entirely innocent in the abuse and silencing of women. We have sometimes weaponized Scripture instead of rightly dividing it.
Some women did not become angry because they hate God. They became angry because people used God against them.
There are women who have been talked down to, ignored, diminished, spiritually manipulated, and emotionally controlled in church spaces while men quoted “submission” at them like a threat.
And when women begin to push back against that, you cannot automatically label them rebellious without enough humility to ask:
“What exactly are they reacting to?”
Because even in Scripture, God did not condemn women who challenged systems.
The daughters of Zelophehad fought.
They contended.
They challenged a structure that disadvantaged them.
And God said:
“The daughters of Zelophehad speak right.” (Numbers 27:7)
Not rebellious.
Not dishonorable.
Not with the spirit of Jezebel…
Right.
Some of you need to realize that being male does not automatically make your interpretation superior.
Statements like:
“Woman was created later, therefore she is lesser,”
“Eve was deceived, therefore women are inferior,”
“Men are naturally superior because Adam came first,”
do not make you sound spiritually mature. They make you sound biblically unintelligent.
Genesis 1 says:
“Male and female created he them.”
God did not create woman as an afterthought. He had both genders in mind from the beginning.
And Genesis 2 is not about superiority.
It is about order.
Order does not mean value.
Christ and the Church have order.
The Father and the Son have order.
Order is not inferiority.
In fact, biblical leadership is not domination.
Christ never used His position to belittle the Church, He died for her.
So how did some Christian men become more arrogant than Christ?
You brandish submission like a weapon.
You speak about masculinity like it is superiority.
You talk about women as though leadership means lordship.
News flash, you are not a biblical male. You are carnally minded and we all know what that means.
To lead in our Kingdom is to serve. Where is your service?!
And if creation order is your argument for superiority, then goats should be greater than men because animals were created before Adam.
The logic collapses immediately.
The truth is many women are angry because they encountered distortion disguised as doctrine.
Male ego preached as theology.
Misogyny defended with proof texts.
And instead of constantly rushing to call women rebellious, maybe Christian men need enough self-awareness to ask:
“Have we represented Christ properly?”
Because many women are not rejecting Christ.
They are reacting to men who looked nothing like Him.
Love and Light… with a sprinkle of Holy Ghost Fire.
Cultural patriarchy will ruin your marriage, run from it. It disguises itself as biblical headship but it is a distant perversion of the sacrificial leadership the Bible commands.
Sometimes I sit with the reality of how unkind this world is to women, and it breaks my heart.
It is one thing for the world to fail women.
It is another thing entirely for people to organise cruelty against women and give it a cultural name.
That is barbarity!
That is evil!