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On accountability, serving, church life, and following Jesus in the real world. Got a question you'd like me to write about? Ask it anonymously.
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November 9, 2026
If a Machine Can Do My Job, Who Am I?
When AI starts doing what you're good at, it can shake your sense of who you are. A software leader on losing something he loved, why men feel this so sharply, the fear under the AI arguments, and where worth really comes from.
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November 9, 2026
What Are You Building With?
In 1 Corinthians 3, Paul says God will test every life by fire. Why that's freeing, and how ordinary days become gold when our work flows from the Spirit.
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November 8, 2026
Adrift: When the Ground Moves Every Month
AI tools change so fast that no skill feels stable. A software leader on how much his own work changed in six months, what never changes, and why your tools should be loose and your principles fixed.
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November 7, 2026
Nobody Asks Each Other Anything Anymore
AI makes us more efficient and quietly more alone. A software leader on what's disappearing from the workplace, why learning still happens best together, and simple ways to stay connected.
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November 6, 2026
Am I Working for the Machine Now?
When your whole day is waiting on AI and editing what it produced, the relationship has flipped. A software leader on the warning signs, why it's happening, the gifts we risk losing, and how to take charge again.
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November 6, 2026
Love God With All Your Strength: Your Body Is Not a Spiritual Afterthought
Part 4 of a series on the Greatest Commandment: why your body matters to God, what it means to offer it as worship, and ten practical ways to love Him with your strength.
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November 5, 2026
I Feel Stupid Now
AI can make experienced people feel slow, behind, and afraid to ask questions. A software leader on the 'unfair' feeling, the shift from doing to directing, and the wink that makes it safe to say 'I don't know.'
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November 4, 2026
The Computer Works for Us
A software leader on the quiet fear inside the AI shift: not losing your job, but losing the human parts of it. What I told my team, what I'm feeling myself, and how to stay human.
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November 3, 2026 · Living the Lord's Prayer
The Awkward Ask: How to Start a Mentoring Relationship
What to actually say when you ask someone to let you disciple them, how long to commit, and what to do when they say no. A four-part script you can use.
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November 2, 2026
Faithful at the Post Office
Faithfulness isn't doing what looks most spiritual. It's following the Spirit's leading wherever God has put you, including a normal job nobody notices.
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November 2, 2026
May Our Action Flow from Unction
It's possible to do a great deal for God and very little with Him. What the Spirit's anointing is, and how our work can flow from it instead of our own strength.
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October 30, 2026
Love God With All Your Mind: Thinking as an Act of Worship
Part 3 of a series on the Greatest Commandment: why Jesus added "mind" to Moses' words, what a renewed mind looks like, and ten ways to love God with your thinking.
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October 27, 2026
How I Use AI in Ministry
A bi-vocational pastor on where AI helps in his day, where it has no place, and why he stays inefficient in the work that forms him.
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October 27, 2026
My 25 Favorite AI Prompts for Ministry
Twenty-five AI prompts I actually use for sermon prep, teaching, leadership, social media, and church admin, plus the guardrails that keep the tool in its place.
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October 27, 2026 · Living the Lord's Prayer
Spotting the Timothy: How to Choose Someone to Disciple
Jesus taught thousands and discipled twelve. How to choose someone to disciple, why to go deep with a few, and how to notice the person nobody has noticed.
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October 27, 2026
What I Tell Claude Before It Works for Me
A baseline instruction file for a pastor's AI assistant: tone, how hard to push back, Scripture, the voices I love, and the lines from our church's AI policy it may never cross.
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October 25, 2026
The Man I'd Most Hate to Miss
When I built Agōn, I pictured three men: a freshman leaving home, a worn-out 40-something, and a retiree with decades of faithfulness. Why the middle one matters most to me.
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October 23, 2026
Love God With All Your Soul: Feeding the Deepest Part of You
Part 2 of a series on the Greatest Commandment: what it means to love God with your soul, why the soul gets thirsty, and nine ways to tend it.
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October 21, 2026
Every Man Needs Brothers, Not Just Buddies
Most men have friends to watch the game with and nobody to tell the truth to. What Scripture means by brotherhood, and how to build it on purpose.
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October 20, 2026
Holy Desperation
When your Bible reading and prayer habits keep going but your heart feels empty, the Psalms and the desert fathers show a way through: holy desperation.