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In this episode
Firm in the storm - Jimmy’s Daily Grind on Hebrews 10:23, written for a week that Adam describes as stormy.
Context is king - Can you read a first-century letter in the 21st century?
Rhema - The God-breathed Word and why the same verse can say something different 10 years later.
Isaiah 8 - Kesher: conspiracy, treason, an unlawful alliance. God is not saying conspiracies never exist.
Ephraim and Syria - The actual political plot behind Isaiah 8.
Meta settles, mid-trial - $12 billion now, up to $17 billion over 10 years.
Age assurance, not age verification - Two-hour default daily limit for under-18 and a six-hour clock on harmful-content reports.
Punted before the midterms - Everybody needs the social networks for the midterms, attorneys general included.
Are children really the problem? - “They broke our brains, all of them. It’s not just about kids.”
Loneliness influencers - a Deutsche Welle documentary about people who have never been more connected, and the manifestation YouTubers in their ears.
The unholy trinity - Me, myself and I
The Bible headline reader - Why a devotional alone is like a paywalled headline.
The law of large numbers - Why a large population of unpredictable players behave very predictably.
Torches of Freedom - Edward Bernays, Freud’s nephew, 1929 debutantes posing as suffragettes, a signal, a phrase handed to the press, and cigarettes made socially acceptable.
Sharia and Law, the word and the phrase - Why politicians concatenate the two.
The evil, demonic data centers - Closed-loop cooling, stranded West Texas wind and solar, and a Gallup poll saying seven in 10 Americans do not want them.
Well done, Democrats. And well done, Governor Abbott, for walking right into the trap
Flock cameras - Two of them outside Jimmy’s gate, and a town in Texas that voted to switch its own off.
A clip of a clip of a clip - Pastor Josh Howerton playing somebody else’s edit of James Talarico.
Where do we get real information?
Victims, volunteers and victors - Jimmy’s three Vs.
Obedience over impulse
Scripture in this episode
All passages New Living Translation, except where Jimmy reads the NIV on air.
Hebrews 10:23
“Firm in the Storm.” Jimmy’s Daily Grind, and the verse Adam went looking for when he had been in the storm.
23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.
James 1:27
Where the conversation started. Adam brings the verse about orphans and widows, and Jimmy answers that in the first century this was a very different matter.
27 Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.
Isaiah 8:11-17
The whole block, indented in Adam’s Bible. The Hebrew is kesher - conspiracy, treason, an unlawful alliance - and it described a real political plot: Ephraim in the north had allied with Syria against Judah in the south. God is not saying conspiracies never exist. He is telling Isaiah not to take the crowd’s fear as his own. Jimmy also reads verse 12 in the NIV 84: “Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear and do not dread it.”
11 The LORD has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said,
12 “Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do, and don’t live in dread of what frightens them.
13 Make the LORD of Heaven’s Armies holy in your life. He is the one you should fear. He is the one who should make you tremble.
14 He will keep you safe. But to Israel and Judah he will be a stone that makes people stumble, a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.
15 Many will stumble and fall, never to rise again. They will be snared and captured.”
16 Preserve the teaching of God; entrust his instructions to those who follow me.
17 I will wait for the LORD, who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my hope in him.
Hebrews 12:11
Obedience over impulse. The third V. Jimmy reads it in the NIV on air - “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, later on however it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.”
11 No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.
1 Kings 19:11-12
Quit looking for epic. Jimmy’s answer to Paul Erskine, who wrote in to ask why he has never had the burning-bush moment other people describe.
11 “Go out and stand before me on the mountain,” the LORD told him. And as Elijah stood there, the LORD passed by, and a mighty windstorm hit the mountain. It was such a terrible blast that the rocks were torn loose, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
12 And after the earthquake there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire there was the sound of a gentle whisper.
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