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How I Study the Bible
I am not a seminary graduate. What I have is a large library, years of reading, and forty years of wrestling with a God I could not fully explain. Here is how the work actually gets done.
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Real Good Is Simple
Marcus Aurelius argued the cardinal virtues — wisdom, self-control, justice, courage — are the only goods that never run out, never depreciate, and can’t be taken from you. Everything we chase instead is scaffolding. A Stoic point with deep biblical echoes.
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The Tool Takes the Shape of the Hand
Socrates refused to write because he feared writing would let us stop remembering. Plato wrote anyway. We barely know Socrates because of it. The same argument is happening again with AI.
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What Is a King? — Will You Bow Now? 6 of 6
Five sections of preparation, one question. We are between the two stages right now. The cross is past. The conquering King is future. The position you take now is the position you keep.
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Don’t Get Lost in Other People’s Minds
Marcus catches something most self-help spends hundreds of pages circling: we say we love ourselves but spend our energy managing what other people think of us.
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What Is a King? — The Witness and the Unveiling 5 of 6
You are responsible for the witness. You are not responsible for the unveiling. The weight modern American Christianity transfers onto the witness was never Scripture’s to give.
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The Chosen: Biblical vs. Fictional Characters
The Chosen has reached more people with the biblical narrative than most films in a generation. A working inventory of which characters come from Scripture and which were invented for the screen.
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What Is a King? — The Counterfeit King 4 of 6
The serpent does not need to convince you the gospel is false. That is too obvious. What he can do is fake the recognition just well enough that you bow to something that looks almost right.
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What Is a King? — The Return of the King 3 of 6
The *imago Dei* still knows what kingship looks like, even after the world has stripped every reference for it from daily life. There is one scene in cinema that proves it every time.
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What Is a King? — Slave to Christ 2 of 6
Paul opens Romans with a self-description 2026 American ears cannot hear correctly. *Doulos Christou* — slave of Christ. The softening costs more than translators know.