Devin Kwan

@ColtonYarbro @hopefamlybindry @problogger @MonergismBooks Thanks for the reply. Wow, I’ll have to look into this

@devinkk29 @hopefamlybindry @problogger @MonergismBooks Yessir.

Trying something new for daily reading. #xteinkx3

@hopefamlybindry @ColtonYarbro @problogger @MonergismBooks I’m unfamiliar with this device. Is it actually possible to download Monergism books onto it? If so, that’s amazing

Now you can't use this device in your video of starter library suggestions Colton. That would be cheating. Even though a 50ish dollar device combined with @MonergismBooks is a killer "starter" library... Man are we blessed to live in this age. The reformers would die of jealousy if they could see the wealth of resources the majority of Christians have easy access to today for free.

It would be sad, if, as oft as we break covenant with God he should break covenant with us; but God will not take advantage of every failing, but in 'anger remember mercy.'

Every rational creature is eternally obliged, from the nature of God, and its relation thereunto, to love him, obey him, depend upon him, submit unto him, and to make him its end, blessedness, and reward. - John Owen

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

Early Church History

This baby went from sad/confused to absolute JOY the second those glasses went on. First time seeing the world clearly. That smile says everything. ♥️ Heart = melted. Who else is obsessed with these moments?

If any of your children were slaves, you would give great sums of money to purchase their freedom; and when your souls are enslaved, will ye not labour for their freedom? Improve the gospel.

MCC pastor laments that Asherah, the "female divine presence who was worshipped alongside Adonai," and who is the ancient consort (wife) of God, has been "written out of the bible."

Other tyrants do but rule over the bodies; Satan over the conscience.

It is not your favoring religion that will assure your good estate unless the love of God and obedience to his commandments are found in your heart. —John Cotton, Volume 2: The Antinomian Controversy, Pg. 558

Christ’s active and passive obedience is mine. God looks upon me as if I had not sinned; nay, as if I had perfectly obeyed his law. Thomas Watson

What we lose when the Bible is only on a screen: 1. You remember where the verse lives on the page and aids memorization. 2. The page shows you much more at once. You see the context, not just a few verses at once. 3. The page keeps your notes. Years from now they will still be there, in your own hand. 4. The page cannot distract you with a notification. It only asks to be read. 5. The page is something your children watch you open and they know it’s the Bible. The screen gives much. The page gives more.

To most people in the world, sin is a very light thing. —Jeremiah Burroughs

Unthankfulness is the epitome of all sin.

I am trying to create a flowchart that explains simply & FAIRLY the Roman Catholic view of how a person is saved. I want to steelman their view, not strawman. This is best I can come up with. I admit I find it frustrating & confusing as a Prot. Give me feedback, especially RCCs.

Well this is awesome. Maybe the King should come around more often.

Let your heart study for Christ, your hands work for him, your tounge speak for him. If Christ be an advocate for us in heaven, we must be agents for him on earth, every one in his sphere must act vigorously for him. —Puritan Thomas Watson, Body of Divinity, 185