HeyJaredMark Vernik
“The Listening Life: because God still speaks—if we’ll learn to listen.”
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Evenings like this (opens the original)
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I remember evenings like this with my grandfather—the locusts and crickets, the last birds, and fireflies over the field. There might be ginger ale or root beer, Cheez-Its, homemade cookies, or one of the popcorn balls he made.They didn’t feel like important moments then. Now they’re treasured memories.I sometimes wonder how many evenings like that slip past us beneath the soft blue glow of our devices. Maybe tonight is a good night to set one down, sit outside, and listen.<a class="image-link i
AI and The Shelf We Already Had (opens the original)
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Long before anybody typed a prompt, ministers had a shelf.It held commentaries, concordances, illustration books, outlines traded between friends, and stories somebody heard at a conference that were too good not to borrow. If we are honest, some of those stories were polished, some were exaggerated, and a few never happened at all.The shelf was never empty.But nobody stood up and said the illustration book preached the sermon or led the ministry. The problem was never the tool. It was somebody
The older I get (opens the original)
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The older I get, the more I realize I have not always listened well.And like many of you, I come by it honestly.Sometimes my mind is already answering before the other person is finished. Sometimes I feel the need to say my piece even when the moment has already passed.I am learning that listening is not passive. It takes practice. It takes slowing down. It takes remembering ahead of time that the person in front of me does not need me to win the conversation.And I think there is a connection he
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