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Christopher Gillespie
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Lutheran Pastor (https://sjrl.org), Coffee roaster (https://gillespie.coffee), Media producer (https://gillespie.media), Podcaster (https://1517.org)
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dizziness 6 months ago
Met with the CFO of a large foundation with nearly $2 billion in management. Acknowledged gold is on a tear and Bitcoin has an impressive CAGR. But they’re not going to stick with equities and bonds because they’ve performed mostly well since the foundation’s founding in 1959. I said, “why not allocate 1% as a hedge?” No, he says, “I’m an old school optimist.” We’re still early.
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dizziness 6 months ago
And hear this clearly: You don’t have to make a name for yourself. You don’t have to build your own reputation. You don’t have to chase affirmation. You don’t need to be the big-name Christian or congregation. Because you already have a name—given to you in baptism. You already have a seat—set by grace. You already have honor—because Christ has called you “friend.” View article →
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dizziness 6 months ago
The Christian defends against the distortion, redefinition, and misuse of words for the sake of the Truth, Jesus, who is communicated through words. When words no longer matter, you will conform the Word of Scripture to your own image... not you be conformed to the image of the Son, Jesus.
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dizziness 6 months ago
“No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or to be outlawed, or any otherwise destroyed, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the law of the Land.” The Magna Carta, Chapter 29, 9 Hen.3. c.29 (1215).
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dizziness 6 months ago
The cost of living had begun to spiral out of control. What was to be done? Casting around, people found a life raft: shares. Every day the entire population studied the stock market listings. Sometimes some shares collapsed and thousands of people hurtled toward the abyss. In every shop, every factory, every school, share tips were whispered in one’s ear. -1923 Germany in the book Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
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dizziness 6 months ago
“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons—a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face.” - George Orwell, 1984.
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dizziness 6 months ago
I’m looking for a quick explainer for how our credit scores are calculated. Does anyone have the formula? lol.
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dizziness 6 months ago
Follow him, and you’ll lose some things—your pride, your self-importance, your false security. But you’ll gain everything. Because when you have Jesus, even with nothing at all, you are complete. Video: View article →