Spirituality and Tech

Happy New Year, everyone! May 2023 be one of the best in your life. Seek the Lord earnestly and you will find Him. Believe that He has the best for you this year, start to break old, bad habits that in the small picture landed you where you were the night before last. Most of all, know that you are not alone in the need to change. Don’t call it a “resolution”, call it a dedication to change your life. Repent of the crappy thinking and bad habits that led you to the point of self-disgust at the end of last year, take proactive steps to improve your situation, whatever that looks like, whether reducing alcohol intake, moving more, eating more healthily, or working on healthier relationships this year, just do it and be intentional. Those little steps, taken daily, and those choices to seek the Lord in those moments when you would have turned to something less worthy, will lead to you being in a better place by the end of this year. If all of us commit to healthier actions and attitudes, it will have a bang-on effect and begin to change the world. #distromonday #newyears #blessings #pray #goodchoices #memesplanation #TechFreedom

Humility. Learn all you can, but stay in a place of learning, not in a place of being the guru or the authority. When we get puffed up with knowledge, we lose sight of what really matters, and start to destroy ourselves and others. That is what I think St Anthony is saying here, that if we allow ourselves to become inflated through learning, we lose the love that really matters, and all our efforts will have been in vain in the end, because, in the words of Paul, we become clanging cymbals and banging gongs if we lack love. Keep your love alive, stay focused on that, not on the things you are learning just for the sake of learning things. Why are you learning? To lord over someone who has less knowledge, or to learn how you can love them better?

THE Reason for the season... It is easy to get lost in the noise of commercialism and the imagined “needs” and the hustle and bustle. Stop for a moment this Christmas Eve. Breathe. Remember Jesus the light, Jesus the joy, and Jesus the hope, now. Shut out the noise, and focus, even as you are preparing for gatherings, wrapping gifts (if you can afford them) and the rest of the stuff we are told we must do in this time of year. Reach for the quiet truth at the heart of this holiday. Put the King where He belongs, front and center. Make Him the Light. Make Him your joy. Place your hope in Him to make things better in your life and our world. #freedomsaturday #christmas #christmaseve #slowdown #prayer #memesplanation #TechFreedom

Do you know your own destitution? Hard question, scary question for most, I think. Are our lives so loud that we cannot hear our troubled souls? That we cannot feel our true poverty (whether we may be materially rich or not), or perceive our own imperfections? What need have we of the reality of Advent and Christmas? If we have so cluttered our lives that we are completely out of touch with our need, then how can Advent be meaningful? If there is nothing we have need of, then how can we have space for hope? Slow down. Hear your heart today, feel the needs that you have in your heart and soul. Jesus is the answer to those hurts, those lacks. That is where Advent becomes meaningful. #freeyourpcfriday #boenhoffer #20thcentry #hardstuff #hope #advent #memesplanation #TechFreedom

When was the last time you walked through a lonely wasteland? One where you have nothing with you and nothing pressing to do, so that you can hear your own heart, so that you can hear the voice of the Father? I am certainly not Catholic, but this is the theme for this week, as we go through the last leg of preparation for Christmas on Sunday. Is the outside all gussied up like the whitewashed tombs of the prophets were by the pharisees? Busy just to be busy and to look good? Or busy so that you don’t have to hear the emptiness in our own hearts as they beat in our chests? Slow down. Take time amidst the rush and noise to heed our own souls’ needs. What are you running from? Why is quiet intentionally far away? #definitionsthursday #advent #bequiet #wasteland #desert #running #stopit #memesplanation #TechFreedom

These are the words assigned to each of the 4 weeks of Advent. First we walk through the hope of Messiah (primarily through the prophesies in the Old Testament, largely Davidic [in the Psalms] and in Isaiah), then we look at the peace promised, then the joy of promises fulfilled, then the Love that is Jesus. We hope for the fulfillment of all of God’s promises, not just the birth of Jesus. This allows us to have peace, even in the midst of a hectic and confusing life. It also teaches us that we can have joy, no matter what we walk through in this life, as Anna and Simeon did as they waited for the consolation of Israel. We also learn that we can experience God’s love for us, even in the midst of hard times (like right now). Then, we have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, to round it all out with joy and a solid resolution to the waiting for Jesus’ birth. Amen. #FFW #memesplanation #adventquotes #Bible #hope #peace #joy #love #faith #TechFreedom

Hauerwas is a modern Reformed theologian. One must await the fulfillment of promises, that is what Advent is about as a liturgical season. We focus on the promise of Messiah, try to place ourselves in the shoes of the Hebrews who received these prophecies in what we call the Old Testament, only we know that Christmas is a historical fact. This patient waiting season helps us to counter the insane rush and unsustainable “now” that our world tries to tell us is normal and should be expected. Breathe. #TTT #advent #quotes #memesplanation #stanleyhauerwas #moderntheology #TechFreedom

Relating to Christmas... We all tend to get caught up in the blind rush to decorate, prepare, and buy gifts, etc. Slow down. Quiet yourself, and choose to remember WHY we celebrate this season. THE gift, Jesus, the Son of God, came to earth as a poor baby. He came, obeying the Father fully, to show us how to truly be human and to bring us back into right relationship and communion with God. That is why we celebrate. It isn’t about the lights, presents, meals, songs, or any of the other commercial stuff. It is about God providing a way for us to be in communion with Him again. End of story. Choose to embrace that more than the mad rush, today. #distromonday #christmas #quiet #expectancy #anonymous #memesplanation #TechFreedom

Lord, As we look at this chapter, summarize it, and talk about this familiar text, help us to see something new or different in this narrative. Help us to grasp the magnitude of your advent, your birth, and your mission here. Help us to keep the cross and the empty grave in mind as we look at the story of your birth, from announcement to gestation, with drama, to the context of Mary and Joseph, the perils of the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, to the Hosts of Heaven scaring the shepherds half to death and all the rest, the symbolism and fulfillment of prophecy that your birth signified. Thank you that you are the Messiah, the anointed King who saved us all. Thank you that you are David’s son, yet David’s Lord. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. Ok, we all know that the Christmas narrative is something of a tome. I will not directly refer to verses, but simply to the overall narrative arc, as presented in the chapter. And so it happened... So it happened, early in First century Palestine, Caesar called for a tax hike, so needed to see how many people there were in his empire, which he ruled over as a god on earth. It was with this backdrop that our story opens. What was the reality of life in First Century Palestine? Over the previous 100 years, there had been a few rebellions, first, against the Ptolomies and Greeks, then with Judah Maccabee, against Rome itself. Rome tightened its grip on the area in a less than characteristic fashion, not only through taxation, but through heavy military presence. Rome usually was fairly lax in how it ruled its territories, unless they misbehaved. Judea and Galilee were two areas which did, so they got the spiky Roman boot on their necks, even with mercenaries from neighboring Syria, who hated the Jews. This led to a very hard life for Jesus’ parents, as it did for most who were alive at the time. Sorry, broke the fourth wall a bit there, but the context is key for the story. At any rate, so it happened, in that time and place, in the midst of the so-called Pax Romana, that God sent Jesus to us, not as the son of a reigning king, but of a humble workman and hardworking young mother. And so it happened that an angel appeared to both Mary, and later on, to Joseph. This angel announced that the coming child was of God. This assured that Jesus would grow up in a stable home, with two parents, and not be immediately shunned as the bastard son of a harlot, which is what would have happened if Joseph had chosen to divorce her. Instead, he adopted Jesus as his own, shielding him from much of that shame, though the people in Nazareth likely still mocked Mary anyway. So it happened that they had to go to Bethlehem, at the height of the travel season, thanks to the census. Why Bethlehem? They were both of different branches of the line of David, and everyone had to go to their ancestral home to register to be counted in the census. This massive influx of travelers led to there being no room in the inn. The innkeeper conveyed this reality to them, and really, the inn was not like a Motel 6 or something, it was likely a family home, and there just wasn’t space for them to stay, so they wound up in what was probably a nearby cave (Bethlehem is in the Judean hillcountry), where the family kept the larger livestock that they could not fit into the home (most families slept with a few sheep, a cow, and a donkey [if they were wealthy enough to have all of those animals]), both to keep the animals safe, and to increase the body heat in the space, to make sleeping more comfortable. So it happened that they wound up in a barn of sorts, while Mary went into labor. In the midst of this, the Hosts of Heaven (not the choir/ musically talented angels, mind you, but the warriors of Heaven) appeared to some shepherds, who were doing the midnight shift with the sheep, making sure that they were safe from thieves and wild animals (this was likely not December, by the way... It was more likely April or September. It was not blazing summer, but nor was it the dead of winter, and even if it was cold, there wasn’t likely to be snow on the ground in Bethlehem, as the elevation was not that high. You do not graze sheep in snow, after all. You would keep them in the fold and that way they would be safe and warmer. These shepherds were just regular guys. You try having one angel appear to you and not crap your pants. They had the hosts of heaven manifest before them and start shouting praises to God because Jesus was born. I don’t know how I would have handled that experience... I could see myself falling down like Daniel earlier, or John, later. Dumbfounded, nearly catatonic, yet the primary speaker who announced the birth opened with “Fear not, for I bring you euangelion (Greek transliteration, this word had very political connotations, as it was used to announce the ascension of a new Caesar to the throne of Rome, and other such similar events) that will be for ALL people, this night, in the City of David (Bethlehem), a child is born, he is Christ, the Lord. Here is how you will know which one he is, you will find a newborn, swaddled in rags, and lying in a manger.” The song that commenced was not likely something like the Hallelujah Chorus, from Handel’s ‘Messiah’, but it likely sounded more like a war cry of praise to God. I don’t know about you, but I doubt I could have moved much after that experience. Not sure my legs would’ve worked to go find the child, at least not at first. However, this, if the angels were to be believed, was the Messiah who had been foretold from the Garden of Eden as the “Seed of the Woman who would crush the serpent’s head”, then prophesied about through all the prophets, From Moses, to Samuel, to Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, Malachai, and others, which I’d have heard read in Synagogue for my whole life, some of which I had probably memorized as a child. The weight of that might have been enough to overcome my jello legs in that moment. I don’t know. And so it happened that the shepherds went to go find and worship Jesus, and tell Mary and Joseph what they had seen and heard. There were no magi as yet, they came far later. The shepherds only came with their hearts open and hopeful for what the angels had said and sang over them that night. These men were likely broke, they may have been tending sacrificial herds, but we don’t know. Bethlehem is only 8 miles from Jerusalem, after all, and if Jesus was born in either April (right near Passover) or in September (right around Yom Kippur), then this would make even more sense, as it would place the herds within a day’s walk of the Temple right around major festivals which required sacrifices to be made. Why wouldn’t the Lamb of God be born around Passover or the Day of Atonement, both of which were foreshadowings of his coming and role. After all, there weren’t any major Jewish festivals which entailed sacrifices in December, just some form of Hanukah, which is all about light and the miracle of the oil in the menorah during the Maccabean Revolt against the Syrian Antiochus Ephiphanes IV in the 2nd Century BC. And so it happened, in the fullness of time, that the Son of God came to be born into our world. Jesus bar Joseph, the son of David, was born in Bethlehem, and the whole world began to change, as the war for the ages would be decided through his life, ministry, teaching, death, resurrection, and bodily ascension to heaven about 30 years later. He came to those who could not laud him, rather than being born in a palace. The masses can relate to Him fully because of this, and he to us. That is beautiful. So it happened that the world changed that night when that one baby was born in a stable and laid in a manger. Just so happened to be 17:17 long... I didn't try. Q:Q, lol

Prayer that is not immediately answered does not necessarily mean that it is a “no”, it could be a “wait”. Why is that? God is wiser than we are, and we must remember that. Humility would tell us that we need to accept God’s greater wisdom, and simply continue praying to attain a deeper intimacy with Him. Breathe and believe. Be patient and rest in Him. #freedomsaturday #pride #humility #prayer #answers #isaacthesyrian #memesplanation #TechFreedom

Ouch. What does this mean for us today? Let us run away from the crowd, chasing after the world’s approval and return to the Pure Word of God. I am not talking about any particular translation, as all have their strengths and weaknesses, but I am talking about taking the Bible at face value. If the Bible says that something is immoral, then we need to treat it as such. Let the Bible and the Holy Spirit determine right and wrong, not our twisted generation. We are to be lights in this dark world, not members of the darkness ourselves. How can salt that has lost its saltiness be useful, after all? How can a light that has gone out be beneficial without new fire being applied to it? My heart breaks for the Church in America. She is fractured, broken, and sick, and hardly recognizes these facts. She is like those foolish virgins who failed to buy oil and were locked out of the wedding. She is a modern Laodicea, lukewarm, and ready to be spat out of Jesus’ mouth. I hate that I have to give messages like this, I don’t want to do it. However, I don’t see many others who are doing it, and it needs to be done. If this word applies to you, discern how you can be renewed and restored to white hot fire for the Lord. #freeyourpcfriday #polycarp #patristics #hardstuff #heartbroken #revivalisneeded #memesplanation #TechFreedom https://t.me/Tech_freedom_chat

Hard, yet gentle words from Isaac the Syrian today. Does love preclude anger? Can they coexist? Can love for another, when defined as “a genuine desire to see the best possible things happen for that other”, not be a source of anger? Perhaps not anger at or towards the beloved, but perhaps a righteous anger towards some other thing which is negatively affecting the beloved in some way? Humility would be a way that that could be realized, I suppose. Even in humility, correction is possible, and is far more easy to swallow than correction from a place of pride. What do you guys think? #definitionsthursday #patristics #love #isaacthesyrian #memesplanation #TechFreedom

What is the hope Polycarp is talking about here? What is our faith based upon? Let me give you a little context for this quote... Polycarp was alive from the mid 1st Century AD- the mid 2nd Century AD. The Church was under heavy persecution, such that I doubt that many American Christians would have stood up under. He was martyred in 155. What hope did he have in that context? None but Jesus. He knew the Lord (perhaps not in the natural, as he was born about 30 years after Jesus ascended into heaven). Jesus’ promises to us kept him and the early believers he served moving forward, even in the face of Empire telling them that they could not believe as they did. They were subversives, they confessed a Lord other than Caesar. That was worthy of death, as it was tantamount to treason against the Empire. Is there anything we deal with daily that could be comparable? Perhaps noticing the synagogue of Satan manipulating everything to their own benefit? Perhaps boldly stating that there is no such thing as a trans person? That a trans person is really still their biological gender, no matter how much they try to change that? Fill in the blank, here, think up a sacred cow and slaughter it, and watch what happens. #FFW #memesplanation #quotes #churchfathers #patristics #Bible #hope #faith #polycarp #TechFreedom

What did Jesus have to give us? Divinity, union with God, righteousness, love, wisdom, and so much more. What did we have that he took from us? Well, our pride, our brokenness, our sin, our wounds. Does this sound like a fair trade to you? It sure doesn’t to me. I don’t know about you, but my stuff feels pretty heavy, yet He took it and gave me an infinitely better deal, and did the same for all who would come unto Him. Have you let your stuff go and received wholeness, a pathway to union with God, love, righteousness, and al the rest that I didn’t mention this morning? #TTT #saints #quotes #memesplanation #stcyril #divination #greatexchange #salvation #sanctification #TechFreedom

What is prayer? Is it some mysterious, religious thing? Well, yes, and no. It is intended to be an intimate conversation between you and the Lord. Not something to tick the boxes for human beings so that you seem holy or something. It is not a religious thing, it is a conversation with your Father, your Abba. A conversation with your Lord and friend. Don’t simply report things (He already knows them anyway), but invite Him into them. Give Him permission to be present in your every moment. Prayer is meant to be an unending dialogue with God, where we share our hearts with Him, and listen to His heart for us and His world. #distromonday #stjohnchrysostom #intimacy #prayer #churchfathers #memesplanation #TechFreedom

Father, Thank you that you will never leave us. Help us to walk justly and humbly before you. Help us to continue seeking you and see this promised inheritance sooner rather than later. We are desperate, Oh God. Things cannot continue as they have been, we look to you to solve these problems on our behalf, bring forth justice, your justice, on the earth, now. Help us to be the kind of counselors that are worth listening to. Give us the wisdom and insight to help people see the way out of their problems. Help us to solve our own problems as well. Give us the courage to walk in wisdom, now. In Jesus’ name, Amen Psalm 37:28-30 (TPT) The Lord loves it when he sees us walking in his justice. He will never desert his devoted lovers; they will be kept forever in his faithful care, but the descendants of the wicked will be banished. The faithful lovers of God will inherit the earth and enjoy every promise of God’s care, dwelling in peace forever. God-lovers make the best counselors. Their words possess wisdom and are right and trustworthy. What is God’s justice? Walking in ways that reflect Torah. Operating in love towards one another, rather than prideful insistence that each one of us is better than the rest. This is easier said than done, surely, but is certainly doable. The call here is to genuinely love and prefer others, rather than choosing the seemingly easier path of self-centeredness and self-gratification. The call is to forsake what the flesh would desire, other than self-care, as we cannot give what we do not possess. God will stay near to us as we closely follow Him and His ways. How do we show that we love Him? Loving our fellow image-bearers, choosing to serve them as though they were the Lord Himself. We pray to be intimate with Him, to hear His heart for us and those around us, to get wisdom, direction, and provision to do the things that He places before us to do. That could be as simple as being present with your family, or it could be much “bigger” in terms of scope. We will see the descendants of the wicked banished from the land. What does this mean, in this profoundly un-rooted age? Those who have been pulling the levers of power and have intentionally destroyed many millions of lives over the last 1000 years will cease to have any power, and their bloodlines may even be completely eliminated from the earth. This will all happen soon (or so I have to keep telling myself to stay sane and hopeful). If we are faithful lovers of God, He will insure that we will receive all of those things that the wicked have laid up for themselves and their progeny, and we will not have to attack these people at all. As lovers of God, with the wisdom that comes from that ongoing series of choices, we can become great counselors, as God’s wisdom is greater and higher than any human wisdom, so we can give answers and solutions that no one who is not of God can. What is Biblical wisdom? It begins with the humble fear of the Lord. This is not us cowering whenever we think of Him, or living in fear of the smiting that should be ours by right, but it is respect and honor. The fear of the Lord that we are talking about here is simply choosing to align ourselves with Him and His ways, honoring Him by loving one another, as Love fulfills the law. Humility, well, I’ve talked about that recently, but it is an accurate concept of who you are in relation to Him. You are His beloved child, if you have surrendered to Him and sworn allegiance to Jesus as your Lord. This gives us a certain swagger, but not pride. It is a confidence because you know that you are right with Him and are walking in His ways, but when you veer off course, you are correctable. That is humility. Put those things together, and you have a person who honors God and knows who they are in relation to Him because they are in relationship, living, dynamic give & take relationship with the Source of All things and All wisdom. This is the foundation of wisdom. Perhaps after I finish this series in Psalm 37, I will crack open Proverbs and start walking through wisdom and folly with you. What do you guys think about that?

Pride is the #1 sin. Pride created the Fall in the Garden and sent Lucifer over the edge into rebellion to start this whole thing off. The Cross is humility. Jesus submitted His will to that of the Father. He didn’t want to do it in His flesh, but He humbled Himself, even to the point of taking on our sin and being temporarily separated from the Father and the Holy Spirit. What is the thing that you are being called to that requires humility today? #freedomsaturday #pride #humility #sin #Jesus #staugustine #memesplanation #TechFreedom

Don’t be religious in your prayers. Simplicity is king. If your heart is full, pour it out, but most of your prayers should be simple so that your pride does not enter in to the situation and muck things up. Lord have mercy. God help. Thank you, Jesus. Trust our Father enough to pray simply. He knows what we need, He is good and will give us what we need. #freeyourpcfriday #stmacarius #patristics #minimalism #shortandsweet #onebody #memesplanation #TechFreedom https://t.me/tech_freedom https://t.me/Tech_freedom_chat https://t.me/Tech_freedom_chat?videochat=0097fa6b0a1be8e587

Remember, we live in an upside down Kingdom. Choose the counter-intuitive option to love those who hate you. You do not have an excuse to hate someone back just because they hate you. After all, the Lord told us that we should expect to be hated. If we truly represent Him, our existence will rankle demons and engender hatred from those who are controlled by them. Genuine love for others will piss demons off, as love is antithetical to their existence. #definitionsthursday #lovenothate #patristics #love #hate #noexcuses #chrysostom #memesplanation #TechFreedom

Thankfulness leads to humility. When we thank God for everything, whether breaths, accomplishments, or material goods, we recognize that we are not the source of our lives. This diffuses that rather nasty human trait of pride. When we recognize that all we are and all we have did not originate in or with us, but is a gift from God, then how can we be anything but humble? This is not a humility of “woe is me, I’m a worm”, but a mindset, rather, of “I am blessed and God is the source of those blessings, so I get to steward them.” There is a confidence that comes there that is not related to pride, but of knowing one’s right place, as I talked about last week. #TTT #saints #quotes #memesplanation #thankfulness #humility #TechFreedom

When was the last time any of us (myself included) really took the time to make the Word a part of our life through memorization and meditation? I don’t remember the last time I really sat down and intentionally committed Scripture to memory. Do not hear this as condemnation from me. Even if I were in the habit of simply learning passages or chapters, I would not lord it over you. That would miss the point in many passages, wouldn’t it? Let’s have a chat with the Holy Spirit and ask Him what you should do about the situation. St. Chrysostom would strongly encourage you to memorize the Word as much as you can, but heed the Spirit in this, not a long dead human. #FFW #memesplanation #quotes #churchfathers #patristics #Bible #memorization #read #chrysostom #TechFreedom

Know thyself. Know your strengths, but do not shy away from your weaknesses. Isaac the Syrian tells us that knowing our weakness is the genesis of all goodness. Consciousness of our weaknesses helps us to keep perspective and humility when walking in this world. That is a seed of goodness, it can also lead to growth, if we address those things in us that would otherwise be negatives. #distromonday #stisaac #weakness #goodness #churchfathers #memesplanation #TechFreedom

Father, Thank you that you are always faithful. Thank you that you have always taken care of me. Help me to be one of those generous ones. Help my boys to be a blessing and to see that they are blessed, even if they don’t always get what they want. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Psalm 37:25-7 (TPT) I was once inexperienced, but now I’m old. Not once have I found a lover of God forsaken by him, nor have any of their children gone hungry. Instead, I’ve found the godly ones to be the generous ones who give freely to others. Their children are blessed and become a blessing. If you truly want to dwell forever in God’s presence, forsake evil and do what is right in his eyes. Has life always been easy? No. Sometimes life is a bitch on wheels. Have we always landed on our feet, so to speak? Yes. Do I consider myself and my wife “lovers of God”? Absolutely. The raw truth for us is that while times have been tight throughout our marriage, mostly due to my stubbornness, God has always made sure that we were relatively healthy, fed, clothed, and homed. He has blessed us, and many years we have had to look back and ask how we got through. The reality is that but for the grace of God, we wouldn’t have. What about you? Have you always had enough? Have you ever gone hungry while seeking after God? As we run full tilt into the height of consumerism, called “Christmas” or the “holiday season”, we need to keep things in perspective. It is so easy to get discouraged and whine that we can’t afford x, y, or z, whether for ourselves or our kids. What do we actually have? What is actually NEEDED? Anything? Bueller? Bueller? Do you NEED anything more this season? Likely, the answer is a “No”. Our focus needs to be on gratitude, not want. That, in and of itself, will improve your mindset and your wellbeing. Choose to be thankful for what you have, rather than whine about what you don’t or what you want or think that you “need” in order to feel better or what have you. Sure, that sentiment does not make the economy go round, as if everyone suddenly became ultra thankful for what they already have, advertising would become far less effective. If you want to be less manipulated by ads, then shift your mindset from discontent to gratitude. Maybe this is a hangover from Thanksgiving, but I don’t think so. If we learn to be satisfied in God, thankful for everything we are given, then consumerism will fall away. Yes, this feels counter-intuitive for a business owner to write, but this business owner is more concerned about your souls than his own pocketbook. Mindless consumerism may pad my pocket and allow me to jump into more of the same, but I want you to carefully consider your purchases this year. Be mindful. Be grateful for what you already have. Be aware of those blessings in your life, and even the ability to make purchases at all. Focus on the Lord this season, not on what the media and big business tell you that you need. Love on Him. Watch those benefits: peace, gratitude, joy, and others, begin to manifest in your life. Watch the anxiety, feelings of lack, feelings of entitlement and all the rest of the junk that the world sells us as part & parcel of the “holiday season” begin to fall away. Unplug from the TV, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ (why would you give those pedophiles money, anyway?), Paramount+, Youtube (without ad blockers), etc, and whatever else you may be bringing into your eye sockets and ear holes telling that you need to buy, buy, buy just to be happy. If you don’t know the Lord, and you want peace in this season and the rest of your life, pray this prayer: God, I need you. I surrender. I am tired of trying to make things work on my own. I am unfulfilled by the things the world tries to sell. Be my Lord. I have be full of pride, and hurt you, others, and myself in the process. I want Jesus to come and be with me, to lead me and help me. Teach me to be humble before you. In Jesus’ name, Amen. If you just prayed that prayer, please reach out to me, either in the comments or in a DM on one of my social media platforms. I want to help you walk this new life out. For the rest of you, thanks for watching and subscribing to the channel. Here’s a preview of this week’s content: Distro Monday Salix 15 Live Memesplanation: Know Thyself from Isaac the Syrian Ubuntu Touch 24 OTA Freedom Consultation OrangePi OS Tech Tips Tuesday KDE 5.26.4 Memesplanation: St Paisos on Humility and Thankfulness LibreOffice 7.4.3 Released Free Your Internet Midori Making Comeback FOSS Fun Wednesday New Heroic Game Launcher Memesplanation: St John Chrysostom on memorizing Scripture WINE 7.22 Released Freed Computer NVIDIA Releases Latest GFX Driver I hope you were blessed today. Be blessed. Don’t forget, Let’s Go Brandon.

Wow. So much for the vaunted Mr. Jefferson, not to mention Marcion before him. If we edit the Bible to fit ourselves, then how can we say that we believe the Bible? How can we call ourselves Christians, if whenever we find something that makes us uncomfortable in the text, we simply ignore or edit or interpret it into meaning something entirely different from what it is meant to, in context? #freedomsaturday #Bible #solascriptura #staugustine #questions #belief #memesplanation #TechFreedom

How many of us would gladly shred a brother or sister just to get the focus off of ourselves? What if we all chose to believe that we are all members of the same body? What does that mean? That means that if one member of the Body hurts, we are all to hurt, or if one is rejoicing, then all rejoice with them. The problem is that we have allowed the structure of the Church, denominational lines, and the like, to obscure this reality. We are all members of One Body. Let that sink in. I am convicted by this, as I have certainly been known to grab a proverbial sniper rifle to take shots at various other alleged believers over the years. It is easy to do it. Almost in passing, at times... It gets eyes and ears to perk up and pay attention because the human condition is skewed towards negative rather than positive things. #freeyourpcfriday #clementofrome #patristics #nomoresniping #onebody #memesplanation #TechFreedom