The Sword Is Not a Suggestion
Romans 13 hands the magistrate a sword, not a pillow. Reading the Westminster divines on civil government as a father, not a scholar.
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Out of the New Age, Into the Catechism
A cult childhood, an atheist decade, and the long slow work of being taught to pray with old words.

Bavinck, Volume One: A Layman's Notes
Six hundred pages, one highlighter, no seminary degree. What Reformed Dogmatics actually asks of a working man.

Family Worship for the Tired Father
Ten minutes, three kids, one psalm. What survived after two years of failing at this most nights.

Reading Bavinck as a Normal Guy, Vol. 1
No seminary degree, no pretense — just a father, a highlighter, and 600 pages of Reformed Dogmatics. What the first volume actually asks of a working man, and the three paragraphs I could not put down.
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IndexOwen on Mortification, for Software Engineers
Sin is not a bug to patch on Friday. What a 17th century Puritan knows about my backlog of private compromises.
Sketchybar, Aerospace, & JankyBorders
Transform MacOS with Sketchybar status bar, Aerospace tiling window manager, and JankyBorders for that Linux rice aesthetic.
Personal Markdown Guide
Markdown cheatsheet for all my blogging needs - headers, lists, images, tables and more! An illustrated guide based on GitHub Flavored Markdown.
