Ziklag W6.5 - Reap

Unseen evils, Your mind and This is not how

SOS Discipline - Daily Proverb and Red Letter Reader

Reap where you did not sew. Gather where you did not scatter. Wisdom causes no shame. cf Pr. 10:5

Unseen evils are not unheard. cf Mt. 9.4

Thus, ceding control to gain advantage is not the same as compelling disadvantage to gain control. cf Sun Tzu 6.3

From Today’s Stack

Your mind ought to belong to you. Take notes. Buy the truth, and do not sell it.

Chaos is the gamification of life. Attempting to control it, to play in "God mode," is to ruin all the fun.

Script is the power of compounding thought over time.

There is no work/life balance. Only life.

From the Archive

from Without Flesh

There have been few religious events in history like the total retreat of Christianity from the front lines of western culture. A brief visit to the church buildings on countless street corners reveal the stupendous reality that the majority of them are in danger of closing their doors at any minute. This is in spite of a century of best efforts to grow these churches at any cost and by any means. Despite these attempts, despite million-dollar industries devoted to Sunday schools, youth groups, small groups, evangelism training and more, once core elements of Christianity are now all but unknown to professing Christian—children and adults alike.

Radically divided, there is little that remains to unite us short of the desperation driving us to turn these effects around. For all of our divisions, this is our unifying doctrine: a manic search driven by invincible faith that a silver bullet can be found which will return us to the glory days of better numbers and cultural relevance.

This is why we buy programs and scour books. We are hunting for some insight, some trend, some trick that will slip just enough people back into the pews . . . er . . . cushioned chairs . . . to steer our ship back toward some “better day”.

This is not how the first Christians stepped before the world.