How Christians can inadvertently moralize unpleasant emotions: Brad Hambrick asks, “’What percentage of our unpleasant emotions are accounted for by sin and how much by suffering?’ The simple answer is, “We don’t know.” If anyone says with confidence that most unpleasant emotions are caused by one or the other, they are merely revealing their bias.”
Everything matters: Christa Threlfall says, “It’s not enough to eliminate the “big sins” that other people can see; Jesus wants every part of our being to belong to him.”
Two ways to gauge contemporary issues in theology: Daniel DeWitt with wisdom on how to consider how pressing theological issues are. First, “Look to church history. G.K. Chesterton described tradition as the ‘democracy of the dead.’ Looking to church history gives the faithful of previous generations a vote. We should ask, ‘is the issue before us something the church has given attention to in the last two thousand years?’’
Don’t want to go to church? Go anyway: Glenna Marshall shares, “I was in a bad mood. I hadn’t slept well, I had been discouraged all week about both work and some relationships. The morning had spun out of control as one of my children, also grumpy, collided with my impatience. I drove to church with gritted teeth and wished I had stayed home. Can you really beg off from church because you’re mad at the world?”
Comparing the most common job in every state in 1998 and 2024: Some interesting things to note from the Visual Capitalist post: the drop in retail salespeople and cashiers and the rise in fast food workers and ops managers and home health aides. With the aging US population, I imagine home health aides will only continue to rise.

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