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Love Grown Cold
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." -Elie Wiesel "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart...

Jeremy Ritzema
Jun 32 min read


Stones and Phones
"Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will...

Jeremy Ritzema
May 262 min read


The Land of 10,000 Fakes
"While walking by the Sea of Galillee, he saw two brothers...casting a net into the sea, for they were fisherman. And he said to them,...

Jeremy Ritzema
May 184 min read


Warring with Wolves
"I've been known to find my kind of people that ain't at home underneath church steeples. You'd be surprised the places I find Jesus that...

Jeremy Ritzema
May 124 min read


Means to be a Man
"I choose to run towards my problems, not away from them, because that's what heroes do." -Thor "The moment, you own it, you better never...

Jeremy Ritzema
Apr 223 min read


Grave Gifts
They took Him down from the tree The spear proved He was dead. They laid His body in a tomb And put linens around the Head A rich man...

Jeremy Ritzema
Apr 181 min read


Our Sons Need a Sword
"Boys are suffering." -Jordan Peterson "A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very dangerous man who has that under...

Jeremy Ritzema
Feb 283 min read


The Cost of Cowardice
"Taking a bribe, letting yourself be bought off, accepting flattery in exchange for some sort of loyalty, is sabotage. Refusing to...

Jeremy Ritzema
Feb 243 min read


The Cost of Courage
"While our brothers and sisters in the majority world continue to meet in caves and barns in the face of imminent danger, many of those...

Jeremy Ritzema
Feb 43 min read


The Power of a Relationship
"Look at your five closest friends. That is who you are. If you don't like who you are, you know what you have to do." -Will Smith...
jeremy ritzema
Jan 173 min read


Fake Humility
"A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility." C.S. Lewis "How would telling people to be nice to one another get a...
jeremy ritzema
Dec 18, 20242 min read


Rolling Away Reproach
“And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal...
jeremy ritzema
Dec 10, 20242 min read


Shining Faces
“Joy is primarily transmitted through the face (especially the eyes) and secondarily through voice. Joy is relational. It is what we...
jeremy ritzema
Dec 4, 20243 min read


Wilderness and Wandering
“The story of your life is the story of a long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.”...
jeremy ritzema
Dec 3, 20242 min read


Friends First
“It is not good for man to be alone.” -God “He who isolates himself seeks his own desire. He breaks out against all sound judgement.”...
jeremy ritzema
Nov 14, 20241 min read


The Granite Walls of Reality
"Truth and life must conquer, and their victory is nearest when they cease to be encumbered with the grave clothes of conventionalism and...
jeremy ritzema
Nov 14, 20242 min read
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