Blessed with a great wife & family, called & gifted—only because of God's grace— to teach and train leaders, disciple, and write—as a pastor/missionary
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The government taxes you when you earn money, taxes you when you spend it, taxes you when you invest it, and then taxes your children when you die. The federal estate tax currently kicks in at 40% on estates above $13.61 million, a threshold the Biden administration repeatedly tried to lower. Washington frames this as targeting dynastic wealth. It actually targets a lifetime of accumulated savings, already taxed multiple times over.
Property rights mean nothing if the state can confiscate your accumulated capital the moment your heart stops. Murray Rothbard put private property at the foundation of liberty for exactly this reason: ownership that evaporates at death is not ownership. It is a revocable license the state issues and reclaims at will.
Consider a family farm in Iowa worth $15 million on paper, generating $200,000 a year in real income. The heirs owe $540,000 in federal estate taxes within nine months of death. They did not get $540,000. They got a farm. So they sell it, usually to a corporate agricultural buyer, which is a funny outcome for a tax rhetorically aimed at breaking up concentrated wealth.
The capital your grandfather spent forty years building represents deferred consumption, resources he chose not to spend. Taxing that capital destroys it. This process doesn't redistribute purchasing power; it rather converts productive assets into government expenditure, removing them from capital markets where they would have funded jobs, equipment, and future production.
Calling this anything other than state-sanctioned inheritance confiscation requires genuine ideological commitment to the fiction that the state has a prior claim on what you built.
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Something that didn't come up at the Philly protests this weekend was the cold and starving Muslims suffering right now in Gaza. It’s been crickets from all those people who say they care SO much about Palestine. The reason is simple: they cant blame the Jews or Israel
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Bigger is not always better. It brings new challenges & demands.
I remember observing this as our church body & the other ministries we oversaw grew from start-up to small to bigger. The changes are dynamic & exponential.
Link– buff.ly/KdwPuNT @tkbeyond @WordStrong2Tim2
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If we claim to be followers of Jesus, who calls us to deny ourselves (Luke 9:23), and cling to our individualism as Christian believers, our faith becomes a non sequitur. It’s illogical and incongruent with genuine faith.
Link– buff.ly/JDtXlJU @tkbeyond @WordStrong2Tim2
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In my 40-plus years of pastoral ministry I’ve known and worked alongside hundreds of pastors. I’ve met thousands.
I can count the wolves in sheep’s clothing on one hand with fingers left over.
But there are some lies that even the 99+ percent of honest pastors have a hard time resisting. Here are five of them:
karlvaters.com/lies-pastors-…
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Love this! 🇺🇸
Can i just say one thing about The United States of America real quick? (We’re on a flight home from two weeks in Asia and the Middle East).
We were driving across the Sri Lankan country side and I saw a guy on a John Deere tractor. I looked it up. John Deere, Largest agricultural equipment manufacturer on Earth. Started in 1837 in Grand Detour, Illinois by a man named John Deere.
I’ll keep going.
If you get on an airplane anywhere on this planet, odds are it’s a Boeing. William Boeing, 1916, Seattle Washington.
Go to any cafe on the globe and you can drink a Coca Cola. Created in Atlanta, Georgia by a man named John pemberton in 1886.
Everyone communicates using Whatsapp. Founded in Mountain View, CA in 2009 by two buddies, Brian Acton and Jan Koum.
Every vehicle is navigating the Globe using Google Maps. Google, started in the garage of Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Menlo Park California. 1996.
Pfizer distributes medicine in every single country on Earth. Charles Pfizer in 1849, Brooklyn, New York.
Amazon products are served in every single country on earth. Also started in his garage by a man name Jeff Bezos in Seattle Washington in 1994.
Half of the world’s population communicates on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2004.
Our Qatar Airways flight attendant said she can’t wait to get to Dallas to go to Walmart to get vitamins for her family. Sam Walton, 1962, Rogers, Arkansas.
This list could literally go on for days. That should fill every American with tremendous pride for this country, its founders, its people, its opportunities, and its contributions to the planet.
Sure we have our flaws, but I can’t wait to get back to America and not drink sparkling water anymore (whoever invented that needs to be in prison), not have to use Kilometers or Celsius anymore, and sink my teeth into a Chick-fil-A sandwich (Truett Cathy, Hapeville, Georgia 1964)
God Bless America.
Trip Kimball retweeted
Can i just say one thing about The United States of America real quick? (We’re on a flight home from two weeks in Asia and the Middle East).
We were driving across the Sri Lankan country side and I saw a guy on a John Deere tractor. I looked it up. John Deere, Largest agricultural equipment manufacturer on Earth. Started in 1837 in Grand Detour, Illinois by a man named John Deere.
I’ll keep going.
If you get on an airplane anywhere on this planet, odds are it’s a Boeing. William Boeing, 1916, Seattle Washington.
Go to any cafe on the globe and you can drink a Coca Cola. Created in Atlanta, Georgia by a man named John pemberton in 1886.
Everyone communicates using Whatsapp. Founded in Mountain View, CA in 2009 by two buddies, Brian Acton and Jan Koum.
Every vehicle is navigating the Globe using Google Maps. Google, started in the garage of Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Menlo Park California. 1996.
Pfizer distributes medicine in every single country on Earth. Charles Pfizer in 1849, Brooklyn, New York.
Amazon products are served in every single country on earth. Also started in his garage by a man name Jeff Bezos in Seattle Washington in 1994.
Half of the world’s population communicates on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2004.
Our Qatar Airways flight attendant said she can’t wait to get to Dallas to go to Walmart to get vitamins for her family. Sam Walton, 1962, Rogers, Arkansas.
This list could literally go on for days. That should fill every American with tremendous pride for this country, its founders, its people, its opportunities, and its contributions to the planet.
Sure we have our flaws, but I can’t wait to get back to America and not drink sparkling water anymore (whoever invented that needs to be in prison), not have to use Kilometers or Celsius anymore, and sink my teeth into a Chick-fil-A sandwich (Truett Cathy, Hapeville, Georgia 1964)
God Bless America.
Trip Kimball retweeted
This may be one of the best explanations of male depression that I’ve ever heard. This is explains why guys are suicidal and their friends, parents, and/or wives don’t even know it. This is also why a man can be married with kids, great job, etc. & feel lonely & depressed.
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Day 2829
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. (2 Timothy 2:23)
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I’ve known pastors of small churches who want bigger ones because they think this would be better. Or small business owners who want... more income.
But bigger is not always better; it brings new challenges & demands.
Link– buff.ly/KdwPuNT @tkbeyond @WordStrong2Tim2
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Over Shabbat dinner last Friday in Las Vegas, a sweet lady turned to me and said: "So Rawan, your mother tongue is Farsi, right?"
I looked at her, speechless. Finally I said, "Why would it be? I'm half Syrian, half Lebanese. Arabic is my mother tongue."
"Okay, so these are two different languages," she said.
I would have thought that since 9/11, Americans knew Arabic is a language: the language of the Quran and of the Arab world.
I didn't like my reaction. Jet-lagged or not, I told myself, I should find the patience to respond gracefully. Then another American Jew asked me to explain the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims. I told him to ask the internet.
I could be nicer, but I don't want to be. I am running low on patience.
Political Islam destroyed the Middle East we escaped, and it intends to take over the West where we settled. Every once in a while, a horrific attack makes the news. We watch the culture transform. We watch our backs, and we watch what our children are taught.
October 7 was a declaration of war on Western civilization. Yet most people still struggle to understand why the US attacked Iran. They can't connect the dots, not even between Hamas and the IRGC, or between Qatar and progressive students' support for the Palestinian cause. The masses are enchanted, and they are opening the doors to the enemy voluntarily. Across from the Bundestag, a German throws his flag on the ground and raises the Palestinian flag in its place. Across Europe, feminists side with the misogynistic regime in Iran.
And in our bastion of freedom, the United States, Mamdani is mayor of New York and El-Sayed has just been elected the first Muslim senator in American history. Many Michigan Jews refused to vote for him. But nearly six in ten of those who voted early still did. Atheists are siding with jihadists.
Since October 7, I have spent endless nights in dusty hotels around the world instead of in my comfortable home with my child. We are at war, and I owe him a fight for his future, and for the future of his children and their children. I am doing all I can to share my insights, raise awareness and say out loud what many won't. Including hundreds of hours on planes, in trains, on hair and make up. Trivialities, logistics, emails and comments.
So help me, will you? Since we are at war, at least take the time to learn the basics, so you can understand what is happening around us, to us, and ultimately to future generations.
Learn about political Islam and its history. Learn about the feud between Sunnis and Shia. Learn what happened in Iran in 1979. Learn about the Jews: their relationship with the Prophet Muhammad, their Temple, their Jerusalem. Learn about Al-Aqsa and why Islamists are obsessed with that mosque.
If I couldn't be bothered to learn, I would have supported the Palestinian cause. It's simple, easy, convenient and popular. It's also dangerous, because in the name of the Palestinian cause we will be stripped of basic freedoms you take for granted. Sooner or later, you too will lose the luxury of ignorance. By then, lamenting won't help us much.
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Day 2828
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. (2 Timothy 2:23)
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Day 2827
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. (2 Timothy 2:23)
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You can study God, memorize Scripture, build something beautiful for His name — and still miss the thing He actually wants from you.
Solomon is the warning. David is the example. The difference was not talent, success, or even moral perfection. It was the direction of the heart.
Pursuing God's presence is not the same as accumulating knowledge about Him. One is relationship. The other can become religion without the living God at its center.
Where is your heart actually pointed right now? This devotional will help you ask the right questions: enduringword.com/blog-archiv…
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Discipleship is not a program, nor a curriculum. It's much simpler & more personal. Jesus modeled discipleship by example.
Paul also followed Jesus & His model.
So, do we choose to follow what is popular or follow Jesus?
Link– buff.ly/S77Otrp @EnduringWordCom @tkbeyond
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Yesterday, during a panel discussion, someone in the audience asked: Why have Palestinians never amounted to anything on a collective level, like the Armenians, for example?
The Armenians, after the genocide, built prosperous communities wherever they went and assimilated without losing their particularity.
But the Palestinians kept the spirit of violence wherever they went.
The man asked whether the reason was something in the air or the water in the Middle East.
One of the panelists answered that Palestinians were exploited by Arab regimes and never got the opportunities the Armenians had. If they had been given the same opportunities, they would have been just as successful and assimilated as well as the Armenians.
@hahussain pushed back and said that was not true because Palestinians in Jordan were given the same rights as Jordanians, yet what did they do with that opportunity? They tried to overthrow King Hussein.
I met with the professor who gave that answer before Hussain responded and discussed with him how Palestinian Christians (except the communists among them) were successful, assimilated into the societies that took them in, and became loyal citizens, and how it was Islam, that thing in the water or the air, that kept the victimhood narrative alive.
Israel absorbed 800,000 refugees who were displaced from Arab countries, while Palestinians have remained in refugee camps to this day, not only because Arab regimes have been capitalizing on their grievances, but also because Palestinians and Muslims in general are susceptible, because of Islam, to living in a perpetual state of violence and destruction.
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Consider what is most important to you. My family is my most valuable living legacy on earth. People I’ve been privileged to lead, disciple, & serve are the next most important... That kind of investment is invaluable...
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In America, we prize our individualism, as if it were sacred. We wear it as a badge of honor. But our commitment to individualistic expression is at odds with the call of Jesus to follow HIm...
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The church is a community of believers following Jesus, both individually & corporately. This is the heart of discipleship.
Discipleship should be the engine driving the church forward in its God-given purpose.
Link– buff.ly/GlRGyPq @EnduringWordCom @tkbeyond
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Jesus was clear about what His Father’s will was for His life. The disciples tried to impose their priorities upon the Lord. The woman at the well seems more connected to what mattered to Jesus than His disciples.
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