Amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic. God can build something greater with your obedience than He can with all of your own ability and talent.
#OTD June 13, 1525:
German reformer Martin Luther, formerly a monk, married Katherine von Bora, a former nun who had escaped from her convent in a fish barrel. Their marriage was a bold public rejection of mandatory clerical celibacy.
Jimmy Dore on the uniparty, Charlie Kirk’s murder and why he came to believe in God.
0:00 Thomas Massie’s Loss and Life in a Corporate Hellscape
5:55 The Illusion of Democracy in the US
14:56 What Would Grab the Attention of Those in Charge?
19:04 What Really Happened to Seth Rich?
28:02 War Propaganda and Rachel Maddow
35:49 What Happened to Stephen Colbert?
38:00 What Happened to Bill Maher?
40:39 How Could Anyone Defend the Genocide in Gaza?
42:26 What Happened to Bernie Sanders?
47:00 Does AOC Have a Shot at the Nomination?
52:17 Is Gavin Newsom Different?
1:01:31 Big Pharma and the Corruption of the FBI
1:04:00 Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon, and CNN Coloring Joe Rogan’s Skin Green
1:06:42 Carl Jung and the Deification of Dr. Fauci
1:11:09 Dore’s Experience of God and His Past Addiction to Weed
1:17:37 The Dream That Changed Dore’s Life
1:24:46 The Mass Spiritual Awakening
1:29:24 The Collapse of the System
1:40:29 Dore’s Laptop Being Hacked
1:42:24 The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
The serpent's first tactic wasn't outright denial, it was a question:
"Did God really say?" (Genesis 3:1)
Trying to get her to doubt what God had clearly spoken.
Today, the same strategy appears whenever people are told they cannot understand Scripture for themselves and must trust human authorities instead.
Lewis’s ghosts are not caricatures of evil, much less an allegorical catalog of vices to overcome. Each lost soul clings to something once recognizable as a virtue — intellect, love, justice, caution, artistic calling — but held in a disordered way. https://t.co/5bjxjMAQZH
To become “successful,” you have to say “yes” to a lot of experiments. To learn what you’re best at, or what you’re most passionate about, you have to throw a lot against the wall.
Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. Instead of throwing spears, you’re holding the shield.
From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. Would I like to go to a conference in South America? Write a time-consuming guest article for a well-known magazine? Invest in a start-up that five of my friends were in? “Sure, that sounds kinda cool,” I’d say, dropping it in the calendar. Later, I’d pay the price of massive distraction and overwhelm. My agenda became a list of everyone else’s agendas.
Saying yes to too much “cool” will bury you alive and render you a B-player, even if you have A-player skills. To develop your edge initially, you learn to set priorities; to maintain your edge, you need to defend against the priorities of others.
Once you reach a decent level of professional success, lack of opportunity won’t kill you. It’s drowning in 7-out-of-10 “cool” commitments that will sink the ship.
“Preach the Word!” These three powerful words were some of Paul’s last to Timothy, his son in the faith (2 Tim. 4:1–2). I had the joy and privilege of preaching on that precious text earlier this month at the Gospel Reformation Network (GRN) National Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. If you get a chance, I’d encourage you to listen to this message, “In Season and Out of Season: Endurance in Preaching,” or to share with your pastor or elders. You can listen here: https://t.co/VUIoF1s9z7.