The Daily Memo | March 31, 2023 | The Answer to Loneliness
Former England Football Captain, David Beckham, recounts being sent off in the 1998 World Cup Finals: “It was probably the longest walk in my life… looking back I’m not sure what thoughts were going through my mind: it was a swirl of fear, guilt, anger, worry and confusion. My head was spinning… I walked into […]
The Daily Memo | March 6, 2023 | Abandoned
Author and theologian Russell Moore described noticing the eerie silence in the Russian orphanage where he adopted his boys. Someone later explained that the babies had stopped crying because they learned that no one would respond to their cries. Attachment theory helps bring an understanding of how critical our early childhood experiences form how we […]
The Daily Memo | February 17, 2023 | Is This the Start of an Even Greater Revival?
If you haven’t heard yet I’d suggest tuning in to what God is doing at Asbury University in Kentucky. Here’s the way Jake Taylor put it on NBC News, “A Christian service at a college chapel in Kentucky has ballooned into a nonstop prayer and worship session that some are calling a “revival” — and […]
The Daily Memo | February 7, 2023 | It’s Mere Christianity
“What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could ‘be like gods’ – could set up on their own as if they had created themselves – be their own masters – invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless […]
The Daily Memo | February 3, 2023 | Church Is Not A Building
Church is not a building. Church is not an event that takes place on Sundays. I know, it’s how we think of it. “I go to First Baptist.” “We are members of St. Luke’s.” “Is it time to go to church?” Much to our surprise, that is not how the Bible uses the term. Not […]
The Daily Memo | January 3, 2023 | Trusting Our Future to God
In 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first purchase with bitcoin (a digital currency then worth a fraction of a penny each), paying 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas ($25). In 2021, at its highest value during the year, those bitcoins would have been worth well more than $500 million. Back before the value skyrocketed, he kept […]