Mythrandir

I enjoy reading, listening to talk shows, listening to lectures, listening to sermons, gaming, and watching shows in my free time.

My favorite authors include JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, GK Chesterton and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I'm currently reading Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton as well as following a daily Bible reading plan.

My favorite talk shows are Armor of Truth, Dayz of Noah, Toronto Apologetics, and Worldview Warfighting.

My favorite games include Pokémon, Fire Emblem, Shin Megami Tensei, Dark Souls, Halo and Final Fantasy.

My favorite shows include Naoki Urusawa's Monster, Altered Carbon, Dark, and various documentaries.

My favorite movies include The Essential Church and Nefarious.

I still live by the motto introduced to me in high school as a member of the National FFA Organization: Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve.

"When people say no, our problem is this, our problem is that we say no. Our problem is that God created the world, and God created man and He put man in the garden to keep the garden, and He gave the man a command, and He held that man to perfect, perpetual obedience to that command, and He promised him life if he kept it and death if he didn't, and he didn't keep it, he ate. And because he ate, because of that one man, sin entered the world and death through sin, and everyone born from that man through ordinary generation inherited that man's sin nature. And because of that sin nature, sins proceed from it, and our world is broken because of that sin, and we stand guilty before a holy and righteous God, and we know that He's holy and we know that He's righteous and we crave justice. But the problem is that if God gives us justice we all die.

"And so, that God in His goodness and in His mercy sent forth His Son, who was not born of ordinary generation but was born of a virgin. Yes, the virgin birth matters why because if He's born of ordinary generation, He's born in sin. But because He's not born of ordinary generation, He's not born in sin, He's clean of sin, His record is clean, and He keeps His record clean, and He obeys God's law, and because He's fully God and fully man, He obeys the law of God on our behalf, and His active obedience, and then in His passive obedience, God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us. All we like sheep had gone astray, each of us had turned to his own way, but God laid upon Him the iniquity of us all, and Christ died for sin once for all, the just for the unjust, and God imputes our sinfulness to Him, and He nails our sinfulness to the tree, and Christ dies and raises again on the third day for our justification.

"And there's another imputation, the righteousness of Christ is actually imputed to us, so that God can be both just and the justifier of the one who places faith in Jesus Christ, so that all those who come to Christ may enter in, so that all those who place faith in Christ might be saved, but not only saved, but sanctified, because He's the firstborn of many brethren, we're justified and we're adopted into the family of God, and we're sanctified and as His children, we begin to bear the family resemblance, and we're further sanctified throughout this life by the very same gospel that saves us, until one day when it's all said and done, we're not just saved from the penalty of sin, we're not just saved from the power of sin, but one day we're glorified and saved from the very presence of sin. That's the gospel that we preach, that's the gospel that we need, and that's the gospel that's more than enough." - Dr. Voddie Baucham, Gospel Clarity, Shepherd's Conference 2022

"Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation. Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men. If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, 'Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,' says the Lord. 'But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.' Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good" (Rom. 12:14‭-‬21 NASB1995).
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12&version=NASB1995

“I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man's actions but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner. ...I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life -- namely myself. However much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty about it. In fact the very reason why I hated the things was that I loved the man. Just because I loved myself, I was sorry to find that I was the sort of man who did those things.” - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity