Ziklag R6.20 - The Game

Bad Conversation, Use All Your Grips, and Unassailability

SOS Discipline - Daily Proverb and Red Letter Reader

A good book is better than a bad conversation. cf Pr. 10:14

Either/or is opportune moment for a wise both/and. cf Mt. 9:17

Numbers only count when you know them. cf Sun Tzu 6.13

Riddle Me “White Belt”

From Today’s Stack

This is a universal to all fights, including verbal, but it applies especially to the BJJ competition environment. ☝️

👇These too are principles that far transcend the many schools of fisticuffs:

Use all your grips.

Iu Jitsu is leverage. The foot is the lever to the hip, making the elbow a fulcrum of much kazushi.

White belt means “trying too hard.”

Execute a strategy, but don’t marry your tactics. If you don’t have a goal, how will you know where to aim? But it is the game that ever ruins the sport.

The Death of Conviction

From the Archive: Without Flesh

What if I showed you proof that continuing to attend your church’s services could reasonably get you killed?

Would you still go?

The ancient church saw martyrdom as an honor. Today, we cower in corners bickering over the color of the carpet. The ancient church conquered the world by dying at its hands. Today, we are crushed in an overwhelming retreat of trying to fit in.

The ancient church did not have better marketing. They did not have better tactics. They did not have better funding. They simply ***believed*** that they were on a ship that ***could not*** sink. They carried a message that ***could not*** be silenced. They were the body of a Christ who ***could not*** die.

Christianity, they believed, was unable to pass away, even though heaven and earth themselves passed away. Even while to the whole world it appeared that they were sinking, even if before the world they were publicly being murdered, the ***words*** of Jesus were ultimate bulwarks to them. He spoke unassailable truth.