Posts with the tag “mark-1”

Every few years a story surfaces that follows the same basic pattern. A charismatic leader. An intense community. Sacrifice and devotion. And then the collapse. The secular world draws the obvious conclusion: the problem is religion. The problem is authority. But that misses the actual diagnosis. The problem is never that people submitted to authority. The problem is that they submitted to the wrong one. Jesus walked into a synagogue and the people immediately knew something was different. He taught as one who had authority, not as someone who had borrowed it from someone else. In the last days, Scripture says the counterfeits will be convincing enough to mislead even the elect. Which means discernment has never mattered more. Read the full post.  Read More

The Eisenhower Matrix divides your to-do list into four boxes: urgent and important, important but not urgent, urgent but not important, and neither. It is one of the most useful productivity tools ever invented. But it has one fatal flaw. It assumes you are working with the right definition of important. Jesus walked up to ordinary people doing ordinary work and announced: the time has come. The kingdom of God has come near. And the early disciples reorganized everything around that single declaration. That is not a productivity hack. That is an eschatological reordering. And it is still the invitation on the table. Read the full post.  Read More