Navigating the changing spiritual landscape is a mega-issue.
1) Christ is King now & forever.
2) The election of Trump, the way I see it, is a blessing from the Lord.
3) Each blessing (grant/gift) should be stewarded/cared for.
I’m not a Q guy and so I believe it is insufficient to “see what happens”.
I’m not a “focus on ethnicity guy” so I believe it is insufficient to focus on the most superficial part of people.
I’m not into politics anymore - in the sense of “let’s get more Republicans in office and grow our majority so we can increase our chances of passing this bit of legislation I like” - so I believe it is insufficient to let the day-by-day headlines sway me this or that way (one of the most sobering realizations I had was that headlines were written to provoke a response; the media is a tool for those who control it).
I’m not a denominational/“evangelical” Christian - in the sense of caring about brands of certain strains of Christianity, past theologians, nor academic discussions that dissect the Bible like a corpse instead of planting it in my mind’s soil (tell tales signs are using big words not found in the Bible to serve as the frame for words the Bible does say) - so I believe it is insufficient to put my identity (and therefore, my thinking) in Paul or Apollos or Calvin or etc etc.
I see God changing things by restoring them to Him. Just like Israel had many opportunities in the OT to return to God, and then God answered them and destroyed their enemies, I believe now is such a time.
The purpose of this post (taking the risk of the aforementioned list of “I’m not…” above) is that I believe submitting everything in your life with fresh eyes towards the Bible will be rewarded now.
Finances, in that, questioning why you do what you do financially. CJ alleging the idea of needing money reposed in banks. Testing why stock investments are vehicles of wealth creation. Exploring alternatives as though “social security” or other government programs won’t be there. These foundational ideas that rebuke 20th century economics open up incredible possibilities.
With relationships, politics is in flux and so it may be possible for drastic forgiveness now that ideological barriers are fracturing. Get “underneath” politics and reject party labels (here, universally agreed ideas are useful; everyone deserves justice, don’t take people’s stuff, property rights, etc) as a way to abandon the politics of division (purposefully curated by headline writers) and return to a Christian repentance model: directly engaging people in private, owning your mistake, and mortifying pride to win the soul.
For future plans, I believe most Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. I could be wrong, but the factoid isn’t as important as the thinking underneath that situation. I grew up not learning about money (and I’m not just talking about how to balance a checkbook). It took me 37 years before I started thinking about money as a decision instead of a tool (this is a longer topic than I have room for here). Point here is that if I were to die today, I know that my money wouldn’t be equally distributed to my four children (which thinks no longer than the next generation) but would be permanently held in trust with assets that generate wealth (the key issue is understanding that money is not to buy you stuff but that it reflects your decisions). Decisions that don’t think in multiple generations restrict the effect of that money to only the next generation (unless, of course, you consider your child getting something with that money and then building with it as multi-generational, then amen). Here, the point is that families that think generationally deploy their money generationally (it is not lost on me that the consumer-driven economy we have facilitates single-generation wealth exchange, if at all).
1) Christ is King now & forever.
2) The election of Trump, the way I see it, is a blessing from the Lord.
3) Each blessing (grant/gift) should be stewarded/cared for.
I’m not a Q guy and so I believe it is insufficient to “see what happens”.
I’m not a “focus on ethnicity guy” so I believe it is insufficient to focus on the most superficial part of people.
I’m not into politics anymore - in the sense of “let’s get more Republicans in office and grow our majority so we can increase our chances of passing this bit of legislation I like” - so I believe it is insufficient to let the day-by-day headlines sway me this or that way (one of the most sobering realizations I had was that headlines were written to provoke a response; the media is a tool for those who control it).
I’m not a denominational/“evangelical” Christian - in the sense of caring about brands of certain strains of Christianity, past theologians, nor academic discussions that dissect the Bible like a corpse instead of planting it in my mind’s soil (tell tales signs are using big words not found in the Bible to serve as the frame for words the Bible does say) - so I believe it is insufficient to put my identity (and therefore, my thinking) in Paul or Apollos or Calvin or etc etc.
I see God changing things by restoring them to Him. Just like Israel had many opportunities in the OT to return to God, and then God answered them and destroyed their enemies, I believe now is such a time.
The purpose of this post (taking the risk of the aforementioned list of “I’m not…” above) is that I believe submitting everything in your life with fresh eyes towards the Bible will be rewarded now.
Finances, in that, questioning why you do what you do financially. CJ alleging the idea of needing money reposed in banks. Testing why stock investments are vehicles of wealth creation. Exploring alternatives as though “social security” or other government programs won’t be there. These foundational ideas that rebuke 20th century economics open up incredible possibilities.
With relationships, politics is in flux and so it may be possible for drastic forgiveness now that ideological barriers are fracturing. Get “underneath” politics and reject party labels (here, universally agreed ideas are useful; everyone deserves justice, don’t take people’s stuff, property rights, etc) as a way to abandon the politics of division (purposefully curated by headline writers) and return to a Christian repentance model: directly engaging people in private, owning your mistake, and mortifying pride to win the soul.
For future plans, I believe most Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. I could be wrong, but the factoid isn’t as important as the thinking underneath that situation. I grew up not learning about money (and I’m not just talking about how to balance a checkbook). It took me 37 years before I started thinking about money as a decision instead of a tool (this is a longer topic than I have room for here). Point here is that if I were to die today, I know that my money wouldn’t be equally distributed to my four children (which thinks no longer than the next generation) but would be permanently held in trust with assets that generate wealth (the key issue is understanding that money is not to buy you stuff but that it reflects your decisions). Decisions that don’t think in multiple generations restrict the effect of that money to only the next generation (unless, of course, you consider your child getting something with that money and then building with it as multi-generational, then amen). Here, the point is that families that think generationally deploy their money generationally (it is not lost on me that the consumer-driven economy we have facilitates single-generation wealth exchange, if at all).