The band Behold the Beloved may have single-handedly redeemed the song “Oceans,” for me. It has been on my “Banned If I Were in Charge of Worship Music” list for many years. Doesn’t hurt they use a slice of Aaron Shust’s “My Savior My God” in it.

On the latest episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast, we’re talking about fear responses, and how they drive behavior. (Ours, as well as our kids’.)

https://empoweredparent.podbean.com/e/fear-episode-1/
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I get the sense, going through the Prime Day Kindle deals, that there is a certain segment of romance novel totally about the woman fixing the broken (from war, trauma, etc.) man.

If you’re nostalgic for the way Twitter used to be, give the Old Twitter extension a whirl. I’ve got it running in Brave and my unGoogled Chromium installation. They have one for Firefox, too. Simple and not annoying. https://github.com/dimdenGD/OldTwitter

My thanks to whomever originally posted that link; I don’t recall where I saw it.

When parody accurately describes reality.
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-threads-app-successfully-combines-everything-you-hate-about-twitter-with-everything-you-hate-about-instagram

With today’s big Threads launch, this latest post by CJ Chilvers seems highly relevant: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/open-wins/

“5 actors who should be the next Indiana Jones”

No one. That’s who. The character went out perfectly in Last Crusade. He should’ve stayed gone.

I’m not linking to the clickbait article, but it’s on Digital Trends if you want to search for it with the above headline.

The AOR rabbit hole I have disappeared down today after listening to Revolution Saints’ latest single, thanks to Apple Music’s infinite playlist, has been spectacular. Added some new tunes to the library.

Having just watched the original Richard Donner/Christopher Reeve Superman from 1978, I noted several little nods to this film that showed up in Man of Steel.

“There is no heaven that has a little corner of hell in it.”

What a line. Oswald Chambers knew what was up with God’s redemptive work in our lives.

It opens today’s devotional: https://utmost.org/the-inevitable-penalty/