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Hey guys!

Here are three things to spark your inner missional flame:

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Living in a Phoebe World

In the Friends episode, The One With the Cat, Phoebe literally thinks her deceased mom is in the cat. While the rest of the cast finds this to be completely normal, Ross stands as the only voice of reason. He cannot believe no one else sees just how ridiculous Phoebe’s belief is. He cannot understand why the rest of the group finds it more of a service to go along with Phoebe’s fantasy.

We live in a Phoebe world. As long as you believe it, that’s all that matters.

In the Phoebe world, we can no longer do Ross-apologetics, flustering ourselves at the ridiculousness of unbelief and irrationality. You can agree with Ross's frustration all day long, but you will seldom find someone from the Phoebe worldview resonating with you.

In James Sire’s The Universe Next Door, Sire unpacks the idea that human reasoning has been essentially shot in the foot in our post-truth* world. Since the 1600s, Sire makes the case that philosophers (from Descartes to Nietzsche) have shifted the Western world mind: a shift from valuing knowledge to meaning.

These ideas, according to Sire, have taken much time to sink into culture. But here we are, stumbling out of the postmodern bar at 2am, drunk with the nihilistic drink.

If we live in a post-truth, Phoebe, world and human reasoning and science are no longer trusted, then apologetics, ministry, discipleship, missions must engage the realm of the arts. Arts are where post-moderns are looking for, expressing, and making meaning.

Art in the post-truth world has the capacity to expose the bankruptcy of self-trust and self-worship. But it doesn’t shove it in people’s faces.

No, by nature of being art, the truths are hidden within the nuances of beauty itself.

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*Post-truth: determining objectivity from subjective emotions or personal beliefs rather than objective truth.

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A Gift For You in 2026

Last year, I wrote this post and felt it important again going into the new year. I give you artists out there something surprising...a shovel.

Yes, a shovel.

I summon you, in 2026, to dig those God-given gifts, skills, and talents out of the ground. Put them to use.

No matter how far you have to dig, how much broken cement obstructs the way, how many bugs must be sliced, how much mud and clay coats them…

Do not allow them to remain in the ground. Do not plateau. Do not compare yourself to Noah, digging for “seemingly no reason.” Do not continue to walk over the sacred ground they lie beneath.

The Master may grant us yet another year to excavate, wipe clean, and make use.

Though He is clean, he looks for dirted hands.

He has custom-ready recipients your tools align perfectly with.

This is what he holds us accountable to.

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Muhammad Ali