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I am amused and baffled by what amuses and baffles our culture. Trends rise and fall and what is new today is despised and forgotten tomorrow. A video trend today is to ask men how often they think about the Roman Empire. Apparently, it’s a thing now to be amused at (particularly men) who think of the Roman Empire daily or weekly (I know, I don’t understand it either). If you are in the New Testament at all in daily…

There is apparently a new trend on TikTok (one of the popular social media apps of our day) called “silent walking.” The trend goes that a person just gets outside and takes a walk with no phone, no earbuds, no electronic distractions of any kind and just walks, listening to nature and being silent. Incredible! Revolutionary! Why didn’t anyone else ever think of such a thing? Just walking… The roots of this claim Buddhist philosophy, but respectfully, it is from…

“Oh, there’s just one more thing…” There are few things more frustrating than thinking that everything is understood and then there is an addition to the instructions. In the book of Colossians, Paul is addressing a people who have been told, “you have Christ and that’s great…oh yeah, but there’s one more thing you need….” What Paul writes to them is that if they have Jesus, they have it all they need to be fully assured in the faith! They…

In 1969, Fred Rogers addressed a frustrated, tired, and angry U.S. Senate subcommittee concerning funding for PBS educational TV. His calm demeanor and earnest reasoning stands in sharp contrast to everyone in the room. Yet it was a song that Mr. Rogers wrote and quoted that won the day. “What do you do with the mad that you feel when you feel so mad you could bite? When the whole world seems oh, so wrong, and nothing you do seems…