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Jason Valendy

@Jasonvalendy

Christian Minister trying to cultivate a creative culture

 Texas
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Joined July 2010
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Pressing Hot Buttons Through Christ jasonvalendy.net/blog/2023/3…
Pressing Hot Buttons Through Christ — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Pressing Hot Buttons Through Christ — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Acclaimed negotiator and Harvard Law School professor Roger Fisher had a thought experiment where the nuclear codes of the United States should not be located in a suitcase handcuffed to an aid....

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The Christian Telos jasonvalendy.net/blog/2023/3…
The Christian Telos — Orthocardia: Right Heart

The Christian Telos — Orthocardia: Right Heart

There is a quote making its rounds on my socials that states, “The test of Christianity is not loving Jesus, it’s loving Judas.” It is a clever turn and change of expectations. It is the sort of...

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Denominational Ice Cream jasonvalendy.net/blog/2023/2…
Denominational Ice Cream — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Denominational Ice Cream — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Over the years I have heard that the different Christian denominations are basically all the same. Yes, there are differences - one may use a little water to baptize while another uses a lake or one...

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Introducing #PeddlingPreacher Channel jasonvalendy.net/blog/2023/1…
Introducing #PeddlingPreacher Channel — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Introducing #PeddlingPreacher Channel — Orthocardia: Right Heart

I am a big fan of the desert mothers and fathers of the early church. They are not perfect but they do offer up a type of wisdom for us today that I believe worth our time. The problem is that these...

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Think Nineveh is the Bad Guy? God's Trying To Convert Jonah. jasonvalendy.net/blog/2022/1…

Think Nineveh is the Bad Guy? God's Trying To Convert Jonah. — Orthocardia: Right Heart

The people who know this story of Jonah understand that Jonah is called to Nineveh, that “great city”. Jonah does not want to go to that city and he runs only to end up being spit up on the shores of...

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Christianity is less a journey and more unrest jasonvalendy.net/blog/2022/1…

Christianity is less a journey and more unrest — Orthocardia: Right Heart

In college I had a notebook that I kept with questions and quotes. The blue ink contrasts with the yellowing paper and in college I had legible enough handwriting to make out the following question:...

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What is the training of a Christian? jasonvalendy.net/blog/2022/1…

What is the training of a Christian? — Orthocardia: Right Heart

When I was younger I played soccer. I was above average, but no Messi. Becoming a soccer player required training: first I had to learn to dribble, then pass, then trap the ball, then pass with...

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Why GMC Needs to Bag on UMC jasonvalendy.net/blog/2022/9…
Why GMC Needs to Bag on UMC — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Why GMC Needs to Bag on UMC — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Many United Methodists resonated with Rev. Andy Bryan’s sentiments when he posted the following.

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You Shall Have No Other Gods BEFORE Me? jasonvalendy.net/blog/2022/8…
You Shall Have No Other Gods BEFORE Me? — Orthocardia: Right Heart

You Shall Have No Other Gods BEFORE Me? — Orthocardia: Right Heart

For those us who do not know the first of these ten, here is a refresher from Exodus 20: Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the...

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Guitar Amps Helping Us Understand the Bible jasonvalendy.net/blog/2022/8…
Guitar Amps Helping Us Understand the Bible — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Guitar Amps Helping Us Understand the Bible — Orthocardia: Right Heart

I have a friend named Lance. He also is a United Methodist pastor. He is a polymath. Of the many gifts, graces and skills this guy has, he has the ability to play the guitar. He says he is not very...

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Am I Growing In My Faith? jasonvalendy.net/blog/2022/8…
Am I Growing In My Faith? — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Am I Growing In My Faith? — Orthocardia: Right Heart

How do we know if we are progressing in our faith? How do we know if we are digressing in our faith? How do we know if we are stagnate in our faith? It is commonly taught that it is the fruit of our...

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Disgust Will Kill the UMC and GMC jasonvalendy.net/blog/2022/8…
Disgust Will Kill the UMC and GMC — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Disgust Will Kill the UMC and GMC — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Within the United Methodist Church, the conventional wisdom is that differences divide and similarities unite. Therefore we need to create churches of like-mindedness because a church that has...

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Christians Following Nietzsche jasonvalendy.net/blog/Christ…

Christians Following Nietzsche — Orthocardia: Right Heart

If there is a saying of the desert tradition that summarizes our time, I nominate the following: Abba Anthony said, “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad,...

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Redemption for the Salt-less jasonvalendy.net/blog/redemp…

Redemption for the Salt-less — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Matthew 5:13 reads, “‘You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.”...

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Church is a Bagel jasonvalendy.net/blog/2022/5…
Church is a Bagel — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Church is a Bagel — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Pastors are asked a lot of different questions, but most questions are variations of categories of questions. There are questions in the “belief category” - “what does your church believe?” There are...

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A Like Minded Church Plays Footsie with The Law of Group Polarization jasonvalendy.net/blog/2022/5…
A Like Minded Church Plays Footsie with The Law of Group Polarization — Orthocardia: Right Heart

A Like Minded Church Plays Footsie with The Law of Group Polarization — Orthocardia: Right Heart

There are some churches and church pastors who genuinely believe that the most faithful expression of their faith is to be with “like minded people”. Who does not like to be with others who are like...

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"Paint the Beauty We Split" jasonvalendy.net/blog/2022/5…
"Paint the Beauty We Split" — Orthocardia: Right Heart

"Paint the Beauty We Split" — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Some may argue that the fracturing, splintering and breaking up of the church is as old as civilization and therefore is some sort of proof that those who uphold unity as misguided at best. It is not...

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Being Angry Is Too Much Fun jasonvalendy.net/blog/Being Angry Is Too Much Fun
Chances Are Your Using Tough Love Wrong jasonvalendy.net/blog/chance…

Chances Are Your Using Tough Love Wrong — Orthocardia: Right Heart

I live in Texas and in Texas we have a culture of being tough. We pride ourselves on being full of grit, dirt and a pick up truck. And so in Texas we use a phrase that maybe you have heard or use...

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Giving: A Brief Taxonomy jasonvalendy.net/blog/2021/1…
Giving: A Brief Taxonomy — Orthocardia: Right Heart

Giving: A Brief Taxonomy — Orthocardia: Right Heart

For a bit of time now I have been wrestling with the differences between a gift, a tithe, an offering and a sacrifice. I identify more as a practical theologian than a philosopher and so please...

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