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The Hatchery: a blog about my adventures in bird watching

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  • Church

    I am beginning to strongly feel called away from the modern Church and towards the orthodox one. My reasons are open to debate, but one thing I do believe is that I’m not alone. Countless Christians are fatigued by the gap between our spiritual need and the current version of the Church. It’s easy to…

    July 26, 2026
  • I’ll just be quiet

    Daniel never feared silence. In each stage of his life, from servant to prisoner to ruler to advisor he found sacred life in conversation with God. Perhaps most importantly, the Lord’s favor rested on Daniel because he pursued a quiet, faithful relationship through prayer. When we read about Daniel, or other great figures in Scripture,…

    May 24, 2026
  • Work & Purpose

    What is most important in this life is not freedom from pain, but proximity to Christ. We need to stop praying for blessings in the conventional definition which are really just luxuries. What is a luxury but an idol if it anchors us to the world and distracts us from our work in Christ? Even…

    March 1, 2026
  • The Cost of Discipleship (I’m two chapters in)

    God this is convicting me so hard. I am sensing in myself so many things that I feel territorial of surrendering. How can I read this and live the same? Do you truly call me to give up everything? How entrenched in this world I have become! My comforts and conveniences, my hopes and desires…

    February 26, 2026
  • Catholicism and Protestantism

    On the question between the Catholic Church and Protestantism, this has become a very old debate now full of many diverse opinions. I find it most important to start with some  fundamental truths that the reader should digest. One, it is important for each person to settle the matter of personal worship for themselves, and…

    February 22, 2026
  • An Unconventional Path

    “There are three great men sitting in a room – a king, a priest, and a rich man. Between them stands a common sellsword. Each great man bids the sellsword to kill the other two. The question is – who lives, who dies?” If power were truly in the hands of swordsmen then why do…

    January 12, 2024
  • Psalm 19

    “Many are the plans in the mind of man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.”  As I read that this morning I was thinking about how absolute and simple that is. I scheme and plot my ways to success, but what happens will be the will of God. God does…

    January 8, 2024
  • 5-9-22 /Journals

    In Mark 13, Jesus talks about the end times. He talks of catastrophe and isolation, deserters from the Kingdom of God and more. But he also commands us to “stay awake.” He says it twice in the chapter. Incredible profoundness to the simple mission statement of “stay awake.” We never know the hour of the…

    May 9, 2022
  • 4-27-22 / a prayer of presence

    I sit here, Father, feeling the relief of an ever-present God. Your Spirit, the Advocate, is here and will be through every part of my day. Through the fatigue of work, through the effort of life, through the highs of good circumstances and the pains of bad news – you are here.  I pray that…

    April 27, 2022
  • 4-26-22 / a prayer

    I’m resting in the person I was designed to be this morning. I may do stupid things, but that’s part of life. In the past I’ve tended to think of myself as the things I did – if I had a great worship session, I’m a connected and worshipful Christian. If I have a killer…

    April 26, 2022
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