A good review of a great book from Josh Chatraw and Jack Carson on faith, doubt, and persuasion. NAMB namb.net/apologetics/re…

You can’t tell him he’s not barking!

“We are in a crisis of spiritual formation 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 we live in an attention economy.” -Jim Davis & Michael S. Graham, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨

"If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven." — Charles Spurgeon

Some lies are so powerful because we so desperately want them to be true.

Tim Challies reviews ⁦Ashley Lande⁩’s new book: “Though I have read many conversion memoirs over the years, I had never read one quite like Lande’s. The writing is top-tier and so is her self-understanding.” challies.com/book-reviews/t…

The Kindle version of Mike Wittmer⁩’s 𝘜𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺: 40 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 is on sale for $4.99. It’s a good one! a.co/d/6Q4ugm7

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Connections Puzzle #453 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Patience paid off.

“We have access to wonderful things. But they require effort, so we settle for the junky things that provide the quick dopamine hits.” Good piece from ⁦David Brooks⁩ nytimes.com/2024/09/05/opi…

Cosign “Faced w/ a new generation of bots that can masquerade as humans and mass-​produce intimacy, democracies should protect themselves by banning counterfeit humans—for example, social media bots that pretend to be human users.” -⁦Yuval Noah Harari⁩ nytimes.com/2024/09/04/opi…

“I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?” -Neil Postman

I have a 2 oz. travel size can of Barbasol shaving cream that I've been using for I don't know how long. Whenever I shave, I think of the widow of Zarephath.

Strands #187 “Just right” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵

Ironically, a proliferation of illuminated screens could possibly lead us into a Dark Age.

I am looking forward to this.

“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.” -Blaise Pascal

Learned hours ago of a former coworker’s death. He had a heart attack while swimming on vacation. Our next moment isn’t promised.

Listen and tell me you can’t imagine him singing “You’re a mean One, Mr. Grinch.”

“Before entering into the proofs of the Christian religion, I find it necessary to point out the sinfulness of those men who live in indifference to the search for truth in a matter which is so important to them, and which touches them so nearly.” -Blaise Pascal