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BJ Richardson was born in Utica, NY in 1978, bravely entering the world as the second of eight children—a position that taught him early on how to negotiate for bathroom time and hide snacks with military precision. His childhood was an upstate New York tour, bouncing between Syracuse and Rochester, where he perfected the fine art of shoveling snow and making the best of hand-me-downs.

In 2000, he earned a BA in Bible from CBC (yes, the Bible has a degree), and later leveled up with an MDiv in Global Studies from Liberty University—because why study one country when you can study them all? Over the next dozen years, BJ wore more hats than a church rummage sale: he worked with orphans, served those with mental disabilities, and served as an i
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Pilgrim’s Progress: The Iron Cage (2:11)

Dear children, keep away from anything
that might take God’s place in your hearts.
1 John 5:21

Read:  Hebrews 6:1-12, 1 John 5:11-21
Pilgrim’s Progress Stage 2 Part 11

Relate: The Interpreter leads Christian into a dark room, and in that room is a man sitting inside a cage made of iron. The man is the picture of despair, hollow-eyed, unable to speak of hope, unreachable

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You Were Never Meant to Lead Alone by E. K. Strawser
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The Great Villains of History by Richard B. Spence
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A series of lectures consisting of 3 villains each. Each one is built around a different topic like femme fatales, serial killers, despots, etc. Lecture is probably the wrong word. There is no real teaching going on. There are no value judgments made ...more
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Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr
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I read this book before way back when I was just out of college and doing college ministry. I thought it would help me sound smarter. Loved it. I just finished it a second time and loved it again but probably for very different reasons. C&C is basica ...more
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Peak Human by Johan Norberg
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It is easy and popular to write expansive books that cover large swaths of human civilizations because the author can then pick and choose their facts to justify whatever agenda they like. Johan Norberg’s Peak Human enters this crowded field of civil ...more
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The Last Guardian by Michael R.  Miller
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This trilogy ended right where a trilogy should end. Everything is nicely wrapped up. But not quite everything. You are left wondering about... well, no spoilers. But at the same time, there is a sense and a feel of completion.

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Judith Scheele is clearly passionate in her love for the Sahara. That much is clear. Unfortunately, that is the only thing that is clear in this book. At the beginning of the book she jumps around to many of the different areas within the Sahara and ...more
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“Let us not look at the talents we wish we had or pine away for the gifts that are not ours but instead do the best we can with what we have.”
BJ Richardson

“Don't ever let the blessings from your hand take my gaze off the beauty of your face or my pursuit of the beating of your heart.”
BJ Richardson

“So be very careful how you spend your time. There is nothing more precious. In the twinkling of an eye, heaven may be won or lost... Man will have no excuse before God at the Day of Judgment when he gives an account of how he spent his time.”
Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing

“Until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, and works to no end. He may have friendships, his partial loyalties, his scraps of honor. But all these things fall into place and life falls into place only with God. Only with God. God, who fights through men against Blind Force and Night and Non-Existence; who is the end, who is the meaning. He is the only king.”
H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees it Through

“We weren't born yesterday. We are from [New York]. But we are also from somewhere else. We are from Oz, from the Looking-Glass Land, from Narnia, and from Middle Earth. If with part of ourselves we are men and women of the world and share the sad unbeliefs of the world, with a deeper part still, the part where our best dreams come from, it is as if we were indeed born yesterday, or almost yesterday, because we are also all of us children still.”
Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale – A Fresh Look at the Many Dimensions of God and Humanity

“You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.”
Mother Teresa

“It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past.”
Yasin al Hafiz

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