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My name is Isaac. I write about life as a husband, dad & pastor in central Illinois.
  • December 28, 2010 9:33 am

    "If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; if God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will."

    — Daniel Webster (via DesiringGod.org/blog)

  • March 6, 2010 2:39 pm

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    Through technology, we have the ability to filter out everything but what we wish to be exposed to – creating what University of Chicago professor Cass Sunstein has called the “Daily Me,” a self-created world in which we see only the sports highlights that concern our favorite team, read only the issues that address our interests and engage only the op-ed pieces with which we agree.

    The highly lauded personalization of information protects us from exposure to anything that might challenge our thinking or make us uncomfortable. Unchecked, we begin to follow the sound of nothing more than the echo of our own voice.

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    — James Emery White in A Mind For God.