My book is ready! You can order it on Amazon (a link is in the comments), Barnes & Nobles, and other outlets. It should arrive on your doorstep in mid-October, if not sooner.
I’ll say this: There are better missionaries with better stories—indeed better storytellers—than me. But I trust God will use my short little book—filled with stories of God’s amazing grace and power—to encourage you to love Christ more and serve him wherever he takes you. The book is a pretty quick read, intentionally short and accessible for all ages—I think your kids and grandkids will really enjoy it.
Note: There is a plot twist at the end, one that I believe will truly inspire your soul.
Democrats don’t have enough children to be a viable party in 20 years…
That’s why they insist on:
1. Lax voting laws (Cheating)
2. Mass immigration (Replacement)
3. Gov control of education (Indoctrination)
In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.
Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.
I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.
This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.
I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"
"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."
"But the store loses."
"Yep. On purpose."
On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.
In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.
A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."
It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.
I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.
Some prices are not prices. They are promises.
I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.
The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.
Long may it spin.
Two somewhat related thoughts…
First, recasting Hitler as some misunderstood, persecuted, well-intentioned leader is false. It’s historical revisionism, and no doubt part of a broader effort to corrupt the way people think about evil, power, and history.
You don’t have to buy into every prevailing narrative about the twentieth century to recognize that. A society that loses the ability to clearly identify genuine evil is a society that becomes vulnerable to it.
Second, so much (which is different from saying all) of what has been going on in the online Reformed world over the last few years is a strange mix of proxy wars, bitterness from soured relationships, and influencers fighting one another over what they treat as a zero-sum audience. It’s a mess. The more things moved in that direction, the more I moved away from it. And I have no intention of getting pulled back into it.
Even posting this will bring out the “name names” and “declare your allegiance” crowd. You get it from both sides. Disavow this guy or declare your loyalty to me. If you don’t publicly denounce someone, you’re secretly with him. If you don’t publicly pledge your allegiance to another person, you’re not a real friend.
Oh well.
My book is ready! You can order it on Amazon (a link is in the comments), Barnes & Nobles, and other outlets. It should arrive on your doorstep in mid-October, if not sooner.
I’ll say this: There are better missionaries with better stories—indeed better storytellers—than me. But I trust God will use my short little book—filled with stories of God’s amazing grace and power—to encourage you to love Christ more and serve him wherever he takes you. The book is a pretty quick read, intentionally short and accessible for all ages—I think your kids and grandkids will really enjoy it.
Note: There is a plot twist at the end, one that I believe will truly inspire your soul.