April 15, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True On the Clock You are on the clock. It is a rather jarring thing to be told or to consider, but it is true for every one of us. Every person has a rendezvous with physical death coming, and it is no less true for those of us without a “terminal” diagnosis. You may not know the date or time of your physical death, but you know it is coming. You are...
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April 8, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Being is Better Than Doing You are a doer. I know it to be true, because every week you and I consider together how to be “thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:17). This is a high compliment of you, because it means you take seriously God’s command to be a doer and not just a hearer of His Word (Jam. 1:22-25). You want to do, and that...
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April 1, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Correcting “To make or set right.” That is the primary Merriam-Webster definition of ‘correct,’ and it is a good place to begin as we continue our study of 2 Timothy 3:16-17’s four ways scripture is useful for being “thoroughly equipped for every good work.” When I hear, “to make or set right,” I am reminded of the story of Zacchaeus in Luke 19. The...
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March 25, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Let's Just Skip This One Rebuking. It is next on our list from 2 Tim. 3:16-17 of things Scripture is useful for, but if you are like me it is tempting to skip over this one. Who wants to be rebuked? Who wants to be told they are wrong and to stand down? Who wants to submit to “sharp disapproval or criticism because of [our] behavior or actions” (the...
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March 18, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Teaching You can be thoroughly equipped for every good work! That is the ultimate promise of 2 Tim. 3:16-17, the passage around which we gather each week here in the pages of The Equipped. Your world is a perilous place, and you need equipping to interact with it in a way that is redemptive and points toward flourishing. You want to be—and you need...
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March 11, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Singularity Singularity. You’ve no doubt heard the word in recent days. You have likely heard something like, “The singularity is here,” or “We are living in the singularity.” In short, the term is used to describe a point in time when artificial intelligence exceeds human capacity. The current cultural conversation on this topic feels a bit like...
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March 4, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Be of Good Courage “Be of good courage” (Josh. 1:9)! What is your first reaction to that rather cheery and downright optimistic command from scripture? Be of good courage! No qualifiers or precursors (though the justification that follows—“for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go”—is about as strong as it gets), but simply an...
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February 25, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Plus-Six Vision Do you have Plus-Six vision for your life? God does. The Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:14-30 is both one of the most cited and also one of the most variably interpreted passages in all of scripture. So a warning right out of the gate: This is a prime example of a passage where you should be personally in the presence of the...
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February 18, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Ashes and Affection “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (Jn. 15:13). It is Ash Wednesday, a day on which many celebrate the beginning of Lent. “Celebrate” seems at first like a strange word to use, because the Lenten season is one of intentional lament. We are remembering—and even intentionally...
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