“How to clarify a concept you can’t articulate: 1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?” That’s how we talk about the trinity – sing it.
Painter and visual artist Chuck Close on inspiration: “The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt […]
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“I think about decisions in three ways: hats, haircuts, and tattoos. Most decisions are like hats. Try one and if you don’t like it, put it back and try another. The cost of a mistake is low, so move quickly and try a bunch of hats. Some decisions are like haircuts. You can fix a […]
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…it is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains him from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honouring and obeying him as his master, although there were no hell, he would revolt at the very idea of offending him. Calvin, J. (1997). Institutes of the Christian religion. Logos
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Quote of the Day “The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse.” — Bill Watterson, “Calvin and Hobbes” (April 5, 2015)
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C. S. Lewis noted that the one prayer that God almost never grants is “encore.” Lewis wrote that our nostalgia for the “golden moments in the past” can be nourishing and sustaining, as long as we see them for what they are—memories, not blueprints. “Properly bedded down in a past which we do not miserably […]
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“It’s hard to save poor early decisions with good late decisions. It’s hard to write a best-selling book if you chose an unpopular topic. It’s hard to build a happy marriage if you married an unhappy person. It’s hard to make money in real estate if you overpaid at the beginning. Certainly, things can be […]
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Sometimes the first move is the most important. The first set in the gym. Now you’re working out. The first sentence. Now you’re writing. The first call. Now you’re in the game. Other times, the last move is the most important. The last brick. Now the building is built. The last line of code. Now […]
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“You help people when they need help, not when you are ready to help them.” “You can be relaxed and dedicated. Just because you worry more, doesn’t mean you care more.”
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Easter Tweet by Russell Moore: Let us eat, drink and be merry,for yesterday, we were dead.Romans 6:4
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