Meaning

  • The Most Expensive Word in the English Language

    The best football boots are terrible for a marathon. The best camera is a poor choice if all you need is a phone call. When you use “Best” without context, it is meaningless. Yet we build our lives around that word. You want the best job instead of the work that aligns with your assignments.…

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  • The Day the Gatekeepers Died

    But sitting in class today, I couldn’t help but smile a little. As the lecturer kept talking about how much power media gatekeepers have, I was happy he was teaching us history, not what’s happening now. At least not as bad as then.

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  • The Mountain Was Never the Point

    When I was younger, I thought success lived on the mountain. They promote you at your workplace. You bought a house. And more… We spend years climbing. We convince ourselves life begins at the summit. After a Sunday school class, I was thinking about Mount Megiddo History remembers it for battles. Scripture uses it as…

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  • The Poverty of Logic — Letter #28

    You think that the antidote to self-destruction was better education. But watching a man willingly inhale smoke from a box that promises to kill him, I realized that we humans are not driven by what we know but…

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  • The Church and the Religion Disruption

    Years from now, we’ll look back and realize the disruption didn’t begin with empty pews or declining denominations. It began when people started seeking God for themselves. The future of the Church may not be about bigger buildings, but deeper believers.

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  • The Architecture of the Unseen

    I spent my morning watching some guys pull up the stone pathway outside my office. The stones had been looking rough for ages. They all pointed fingers at the last heat season, but then they lifted that heavy slate, and we saw what was going on down in the dark…

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  • The Weight of Commitment

    I always assumed that making a massive decision was a mental exercise, a matter of mapping out risks in a quiet room. But this morning, when I held the contract, I understood that the mind does not decide at all. They have a distinct physical weight, and they demand a very specific kind of surrender…

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