Rev. Dr. Christmas Dan 🎄

How Should Christians Think About AI? The AI revolution and a call to respond with wisdom and love.

With all the created world around us, we proceed with wisdom. A bee can sting us and provide us honey. So much of the world is this way. It can harm us and help us. Wisdom helps us discern which approach will bring help instead of harm.

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Calling Christianity a crutch for the weak gives people way too much credit.

Christianity is actually a resurrection for the dead.

The answer to liberalism without the resurrection is not conservatism without the cross.

Never Tabasco.

This time Tapatio.

Always Cholula.

When Apologetics Goes Viral The most popular podcast in the world, the Joe Rogan Experience, published a three-plus hour conversation with Christian scholar and apologist Wesley Huff.

The Huff-Rogan moment reminds us: Something’s happening here. “What’s that sound?” We need to stop, look, listen, and lean in. And we need to start “apologizing” like Christians, again.

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Limping Into 2025 If you’re limping into 2025, maybe God’s got you right where he wants you.

Limping into 2025

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Some say that Christians are politically homeless on earth. But that isn’t quite true.

We have a political home in a City (polis) yet to come, and this City assembles on earth in the local church.

People who walk with Jesus
limp with a stagger
rather than
strut with a swagger.

If you’re limping into 2025, maybe it means you’ve been wrestling with God and he’s got you just where he wants you.

Sometimes I think I’m too much of a contrarian, but then I think, “No, I’m not.”

Some sketches from Christmas and the space in between

Merry Christmas from our family at our favorite Chinese place.

Merry Christmas from our family on my new Kindle Scribe 🎄

In Lonely Exile Here Three kinds of exile in a world awaiting Christmas

Into this blank space called “exile,” Matthew tells us to overwrite the name of Jesus. Because Jesus ends the exile. Emmanuel ransoms captive Israel who mourns in lonely exile.

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Christmas is the death-wheeze of cynicism.

In Lonely Exile Here Three kinds of exile in a world awaiting Christmas

In Lonely Exile Here: Three Kinds of Exile in a World Awaiting Christmas

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I hate to brag 😏

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Needles on the Christmas Tree Have you ever wondered if your life matters? Does it make a difference? Does it count for anything?

In light of God, we’re irrelevant and insignificant.

Except that God makes us significant. God makes us matter, because he made matter. God instilled creation with value because he is the one who made it.

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Needles on the Christmas Tree Have you ever wondered if your life matters? Does it make a difference? Does it count for anything?

Turned it into my newsletter :)

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A very “American evangelical just home from Oxford” sermon this morning. Probably trying too hard, but at least I’m trying. 😆

Until next time, Oxford.

What do you give to the One who has everything?

Yourself.

If God became a man, born, then dead, in blood—then you aren’t too broken or far away.

Legend.

When our son was six years old, we told him the true story of St. Nicholas—a pastor from a long time ago who helped people.

His takeaway: “So, he died?”

“Yes.”

Soon after, he sent this note to Santa: “Dear Santa, you are ded.”

Happy St. Nicholas Day!