A Nerd For Jesus

During the writing process, Grammarly generated responses to the following AI prompts: Prompts created by Grammarly - "Give me ideas for improvement" - "Make it engaging" - "Simplify it" - "Shorten it" Life can be complicated. These are my thoughts/testimony, long story, lucky for you, here's the short version, about my Christian faith.  I grew up in the Church of the Brethren, founded in 1708 by Alexander Mack in Germany. The Brethren aimed to return to New Testament Christianity and broke away from traditional churches due to formalism. They practiced believer's baptism, held a love feast, anointed for healing, and faced persecution when they moved to North America, mainly settling in Pennsylvania. Today, the Church has about 100,000 members in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The early Brethren shared common beliefs with other Protestants, but they emphasized peace, simple living, and a quest for truth. They actively shared their faith by sen...

  Why I broke up with Facebook: Here are five reasons why I'm not on there (not an exhaustive list) #5 fear of missing out from We are messengers "in the image of God, I woke up with a broken heart in my chest I couldn't sleep, couldn't get no rest Weighed down by the heaviness of life And I try to shake it, flipping through my phone But all it does is make me feel more alone How could anything that feels so wrong be right?" Those lyrics are awesome and have a deep and digital minimalism-like meaning, what digital minimalism is, from Cal Newport:" It is a philosophy that helps you question what digital communication tools (and behaviors surrounding these tools) add the most value to your life. It is motivated by the belief that intentionally and aggressively clearing away low-value digital noise and optimizing your use of the tools that really matter can significantly improve your life. Fear of missing out from Verywell Mind. " Teens tend to use ...

  Are you wrestling with issues of Science and your faith, or perhaps a friend asks you a question about evolution and faith, and you don't know how to come up with an answer ? In this Blog post, I'll list some book recommendations . Pick and choose which book you want to read, regardless of my point of view on this position . A great book to start with to get a layout of the land is Counterpoints: Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design it's fair to all sides of the debate, the most unbiased book to start with Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design  presents the current "state of the conversation" about origins among evangelicals representing four key positions: Young Earth Creationism - Ken Ham (Answers in Genesis) Old Earth (Progressive) Creationism - Hugh Ross (Reasons to Believe) Evolutionary Creation - Deborah B. Haarsma (BioLogos) Intelligent Design - Stephen C. Meyer (The Discovery Institute) (source Goodreads) It...