September 10, 2025 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! --- Thank you for being part of The Equipped family! Grow the impact by inviting a friend, and support the mission by becoming a monthly contributor! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Depleted Depleted. That was the conclusion made by my doctor recently. There was not an underlying disease or infection, which was cause for rejoicing. But there was also not an all-clear signal. I...
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September 3, 2025 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 Herald on the Run What impact am I having? Have you ever asked yourself—or God—that question? I know I have! It is so easy to evaluate your obedience through the lens of the impact you see it making—or not making. It is a natural and normal human behavior to consider the impact of an action. But God’s plan frequently unfolds in a different...
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August 27, 2025 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 Kevin and Rick Meet Kevin and Rick. Kevin and Rick It sounds like a couple of dads from the neighborhood or two guys from small group, but Kevin and Rick are our newly acquired feeder pigs. I can’t explain the names because I don’t understand the reason they were chosen, but I can tell you it was the result of much deliberation around the family...
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August 20, 2025 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 To Do or not to Do? Go. Wait. Do. Don’t. Which is it? Or is it both? We have had a similar conversation before, but this seeming juxtaposition appears regularly enough in scripture to warrant our repeated attention. “Go and make disciples of all nations.” It is perhaps the most operative phrase in the final commissioning from Jesus to the disciples...
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August 13, 2025 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 The Crazy Out There The news will make you crazy. Truly, it seems as though our world gets more and more chaotic every week. In one very real sense, it is true. 1 John 2:17 says, “The world and its desires pass away,” and 2 Corinthians 4:18 reminds us the things we see with our physical eyes are temporary. Simply put, the earthly world is wasting...
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August 6, 2025 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 Warring Lions “You’ve got a lion inside of those lungs.” It is a lyric from Brandon Lake’s song, Gratitude, but it points vividly to the biblical concept of warring lions in your life—a concept I am confident is all too real for you. The imagery of God’s Word is epic in the literal sense of the word. The big story of the Bible is one long and poetic...
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July 30, 2025 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 Ryno I met my childhood hero at the White House many years ago. No, it wasn’t the President; It was Ryno. “Ryno” is Ryne Sandberg. He was the second baseman for the Chicago Cubs when I was a kid, and he was the player my dad and my coaches told me to emulate. He played terrific defense (unlike most great players, his statue at Wrigley Field is of him...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
July 23, 2025 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 Don't Say It It is a word never to be uttered. It should especially never be mentioned in an e-newsletter or any other subscription-based form of communication. It is in every way taboo, and one every marketing plan will scream for you to steer clear of at all costs. Despite all these realities, it is a word you and I should take seriously and deploy...
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July 16, 2025 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 One Day One day, Jesus walked up. That is how a children’s Bible we use paraphrases John 1:29, which in the NIV version says, “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him.” The context is this: John has been telling everyone that Jesus the Messiah is coming—and that he, John, is NOT the Messiah. John has been preaching, and prophesying, and...
2 months ago • 7 min read