March 25, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Let's Just Skip This One Rebuking. It is next on our list from 2 Tim. 3:16-17 of things Scripture is useful for, but if you are like me it is tempting to skip over this one. Who wants to be rebuked? Who wants to be told they are wrong and to stand down? Who wants to submit to “sharp disapproval or criticism because of [our] behavior or actions” (the...
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March 18, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Teaching You can be thoroughly equipped for every good work! That is the ultimate promise of 2 Tim. 3:16-17, the passage around which we gather each week here in the pages of The Equipped. Your world is a perilous place, and you need equipping to interact with it in a way that is redemptive and points toward flourishing. You want to be—and you need...
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March 11, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Singularity Singularity. You’ve no doubt heard the word in recent days. You have likely heard something like, “The singularity is here,” or “We are living in the singularity.” In short, the term is used to describe a point in time when artificial intelligence exceeds human capacity. The current cultural conversation on this topic feels a bit like...
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March 4, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Be of Good Courage “Be of good courage” (Josh. 1:9)! What is your first reaction to that rather cheery and downright optimistic command from scripture? Be of good courage! No qualifiers or precursors (though the justification that follows—“for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go”—is about as strong as it gets), but simply an...
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February 25, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Plus-Six Vision Do you have Plus-Six vision for your life? God does. The Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:14-30 is both one of the most cited and also one of the most variably interpreted passages in all of scripture. So a warning right out of the gate: This is a prime example of a passage where you should be personally in the presence of the...
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February 18, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Ashes and Affection “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (Jn. 15:13). It is Ash Wednesday, a day on which many celebrate the beginning of Lent. “Celebrate” seems at first like a strange word to use, because the Lenten season is one of intentional lament. We are remembering—and even intentionally...
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February 11, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True Strategic Withdraw Withdraw. Retreat. Take a step back. If you are anything like me, the advice above feels like an admission of defeat. You feel as though any break in your pace, any giving of ground, any time released will result in reduced productivity that can never be recovered. So you press on. You advance. You take not one but two steps...
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February 4, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! This week’s issue of The Equipped is abbreviated—no news, just The True and The Beautiful. The reason for this one-week change is my bride and I are celebrating twenty years of marriage! Thank you for affording us some margin to reflect on God’s goodness, thank you for being part of The Equipped family, and thank you for aiming your life toward the True and beautiful aim of God’s glory! -Thann (Note: This...
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January 28, 2026 Viewing all things through the lens of the True and the beautiful! Subscribe for FREE! Pay if you want--or don't! Podcast The True The Peculiar Way “It clearly isn’t working.” How often have you heard that—or something like it—from your friends and family in recent days? It is a constant refrain and it comes from every possible worldview and walk of life. It is abundantly clear to almost everybody that there is a tremendous amount of brokenness in our world, and that the...
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