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Dan Sanchez retweeted
October 4 marked one year since I launched Against the Left. 27 articles and 200 subscribers later, I couldn’t be more proud of what I’ve accomplished with this newsletter.
To commemorate this anniversary, I want to highlight some of my personal favorite pieces. 🧵
Can the Holy Bible help us beat procrastination?
In his second letter to Timothy, Paul writes pastoral counsel to his young protégé as he serves the church in Ephesus. He reminds him that Scripture is:
"…profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."
2 Timothy 3:16-17 KJV
This is true for reproving, correcting, and instructing others, which was part of Timothy’s job. But Scripture is also profoundly useful for mending your own ways, as I myself have found.
This morning, as I sat down to work on this essay about the above passage, I ran into writer’s block. It had been many days since I last wrote a devotional and I was rusty. I felt myself recoil from the difficulty of the task and was tempted to put it off or skip it altogether.
But another Bible passage by Paul sprang to mind that helped me overcome that urge to flee:
"I can do all this through him who gives me strength."
Philippians 4:13 NIV
The verse convicted me and corrected my lapse in faith in my own ability, through Christ, to buckle down and write. So strengthened, I pushed past procrastination and produced the piece you’re reading now.
When we commit Scripture to memory, we furnish our minds with divine words of wisdom. And a “well-furnished mind,” as classical educators have long taught, is a well-prepared mind: ready to recall exactly what is called for—a quote, a fact, an idea—in any given situation. The more we furnish our minds with Scripture, the better equipped we will be to get through our inevitable moments of weakness and times of need. It is just as Paul told Timothy:
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."
P.S. Here are more Bible verses that I have found helpful for overcoming procrastination:
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters."
Colossians 3:23 NIV
"If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them."
James 4:17 NIV
"I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments."
Psalm 119:60 ESV
Dan Sanchez retweeted
to be clear, i do NOT want to jump to conclusions nor fear monger
that said, if trump is in fact referring to using nukes, i want to put it on the record for my grandchildren to see one day that i am COMPLETELY against this and god help us all
“You who wish to reform everything! Why don’t you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”
— Frédéric Bastiat
"If everyone were devoted to the perfection of self, there could be no meddlers amongst us, and without meddlers there could be no socialism.”
— Leonard E. Read
“My sense is that if you want to change the world, you start with yourself and work outward because you build your competence that way. I don’t know how you can go out and protest the structure of the entire economic system if you can’t keep your room organized.”
— Jordan B. Peterson
"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
— Confucius
“...if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?”
St. Paul, 1 Timothy 3:5
Faith is the switch that reconnects us to God’s power, which galvanizes our good intentions to generate good actions, making our potential energy kinetic.
“To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God will make you worthy of his call and will fulfill by his power every good resolve and work of faith.”
2 Thessalonians 1:11
Step 1: Teach your boomer to subscribe to podcasts.
Never answer atrocity with atrocity, not even against those outside your in-group (religion, nation, political party, etc.). But also never answer insult with insult, not even when insulted by those who promote atrocity (neocons, communists, etc). Christ civilized us by teaching us to love our enemies and pray for our persecutors: to seek universal, benevolent justice instead of factional, malicious revenge. To heal our sick and fractured world, we must better learn, heed, model, and spread Christ’s revolutionary and redemptive ethic.
“See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek what is good for one another and for all people.”
1 Thessalonians 5:15
Christianity is the prime source of “the bourgeois virtues”—temperance, order, industry, honesty, respect for the person and property of others etc.—that nurtured the rise of freedom and the market economy in the Christian west, culminating in what Deirdre McCloskey calls “the Great Enrichment.”
“And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.”
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
Ephesians 5:15–16
“Days” here means “the culture of the times.” So St. Paul is saying that, in this fallen age, we are surrounded by distractions, temptations, and bad influences. If we let ourselves drift, we will fall under the sway of these things and squander the precious time God has given us. Every hour is like a voucher that goes to waste if you don’t redeem it for what it is specifically good for. To redeem any given time, we must wisely identify and vigorously seize its special opportunities. To redeem our lives, we must live deliberately.
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Of course a national traitor would hate a national treasure like @ThomasEWoods.
Thomas Woods is an anarchist not a libertarian. Certainly not a constitutional conservative, not MAGA, not Trump, not Reagan, all of whom and which he has condemned directly and indirectly. Woods is a Tom Massie/Ron Paul diehard. He jumps in on behalf of Joe Kent and the Woke Reich, lying about our outreach to Kent about my interviewing and Kent ignoring our follow up, to create confusion and hostility, because his agenda is to bring down the system, undermine the war effort and Trump presidency. Kent is his latest project. I’ve ignored him for many, many years but he cannot let go. Another crackpot.
All honest work is the Lord’s work, whether you are a missionary or a mail carrier, spreading the gospel or filling out spreadsheets, delivering a homily or making a home, changing lives or changing diapers. We love God by loving our neighbor: the people He has placed along our paths. That includes our spouses and children, our customers and clients, our coworkers and bosses, our communities and congregations. And we love those in our lives by serving them devotedly. When we do, God rewards us, in this life and the next, with peaceful minds and full hearts.
“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
Colossians 3:23-24
Dual-covenant theology belittles Christ. His New Covenant is not merely an additional, optional track to salvation branching from and running parallel to the Old Covenant. The New fulfills what the Old prefigured. Old Testament traditions were mere shadows (in Catholic theology, “types”) foreshadowing the all-embracing New Covenant of Christ. As the Apostle Paul put it:
“Let no one, then, pass judgment on you in matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or sabbath. These are shadows of things to come; the reality belongs to Christ.” (Colossians 2:16–17, NABRE)
Brutal.
.@SenOssoff: "Was it the assessment of the Intelligence Community that there was an 'imminent nuclear threat' posed by the Iranian regime?"
@DNIGabbard: "The only person who can determine what is and is not a threat is the President—"
Ossoff: "False."
Sit with God. Walk with God. Repeat.
When we pray and study the Bible in our quiet hours, God graces us with a greater understanding of His will.
That helps us to better do His will throughout the following day, as His Word and Spirit inform and inspire our actions.
And that experience can in turn enrich our prayer and studies if we pray over our conduct and apply to it the lessons of scripture, yielding still more learning and further fruitful works.
“…that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God…”
Colossians 1:9-10
Articulate your anxieties. Shape your worries into words, in speech or in writing. Present them to the Father and pray for Fatherly guidance. Listen for the Spirit's answer. Act accordingly and trust God with the outcome.
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
Philippians 4:6
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I honestly could not recommend this program more highly.
A few days ago, I interviewed the great @RonPaul about the story behind the Giuliani moment (watch the interview below). At 90 years old, he credited FEE’s Leonard Read for shaping his thinking on character and tone in public debates.
I believe Dan has done an excellent job carrying those ideas forward through this program.
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