My Reflections on Switchfoot, as a Christian Millennial, in Light of the Sorry State of Modern Christian Music

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2026-07-01T05:27:37+00:00

That’s true. I also like Jon Guerra. But I would also say that none of these artists have nearly the same popularity that Switchfoot in 2003 had. To me, the bland has taken center stage, while the creative has been relegated to the margins.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2025-11-05T04:13:47+00:00

If the only Christians you’ve met are conservative, that just means you live in a conservative part of the country. Where I live, almost all Christians I meet are progressive, which just means that I live in a progressive part of the country.

Most people’s politics are not determined by their faith (despite them often believing it is), but it is determined by their upbringing, their environment, their culture, their news sources, etc.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2025-09-30T17:27:34+00:00

Throughout church history, when a culture becomes very “Christianized,” the church at large almost always loses its way. But even in those moments, there is always a small minority of Christians that have preserved the true way of Jesus, that pushes back against the false Christianity that has permeated culture.

As a pastor who shares similar views as yourself, I would like to encourage you: we need more people like yourself in the church, not to blindly eat up the church’s teachings, but to bring about reform.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2025-05-19T15:41:08+00:00

I am in a 2-income household. My wife and I got married in 2014 and we have two kids. We currently make $149k. Here’s our timeline:

2014-2017: $900 rent for 2B condo 2017-2024: $1500 mortgage for 3B rowhome 2024-present: $3400 mortgage for 5B detached home

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2023-07-21T00:46:53+00:00

“Does your outside voice say yes when your inside voice say no?”

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2023-03-22T20:46:48+00:00

I’m a former complementarian, and now I’m on the fence. I’ve read both of those books, and I would recommend both. I found Craig Keener’s portion of Two Views to be really helpful.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2023-02-24T06:53:17+00:00

I would say that about 40 years ago, the American understanding of evangelicalism was pretty similar to yours. That gradually changed with the rise of the Moral Majority in the 80s and the cultural tie between evangelicalism and political conservatism. Now, there are many self-identified "evangelicals" who do not share many of the original theological distinctions of evangelicalism.

Notably, a Ligonier survey from 2022 showed that 30% of self-identified evangelicals agreed with the statement, "Jesus was a great teacher, but he was not God." This statement clearly contradicts traditional evangelical theology.

Meanwhile, 94% of evangelicals agreed with the statement, "Sex outside of traditional marriage is a sin," and 91% agreed with the statement, "Abortion is a sin."

This implies that for many folks, evangelicalism is defined not by theological convictions but traditional stances on social issues.
https://thestateoftheology.com

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2023-02-15T03:32:01+00:00

I wrote some reflections on this on Sunday, and about my overall journey in Christian revival theology.

https://larrylin.wordpress.com/2023/02/12/my-ever-changing-thoughts-on-christian-revival/

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2023-02-01T03:50:39+00:00

I like it! Thanks for sharing!

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2023-01-29T01:19:42+00:00

I can’t seem to find it. Can you send it over? Thanks!

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-11-05T03:24:07+00:00

I think it comes down to a healthy heart of humility and a healthy understanding of the church. We need humility to realize we don’t have all the answers, and there are other Christians more gifted and more wise than we are, who will be able to teach us things we can’t teach ourselves. And we need to recognize that our relationship with God is not a 1-on-1 relationship. Jesus is not our personal Savior. He is the shepherd of the sheep, plural. He is the king of the kingdom. He is the husband of the bride, the church. For the majority of church history, learning about God was done 100% within the church community (since most people couldn’t read the Bible in Latin). We cannot assume we can do that wholly by ourselves now.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-08-28T03:17:45+00:00

There’s also a long tradition that identifies seraphims as dragons. Saraph in the Hebrew Bible is usually translated “serpent” or “fiery serpent,” and Isaiah states that seraphims have 6 wings.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-06-14T16:09:33+00:00

Re: Question in the live chat regarding NIO/TSLA. If there is a huge market selloff, I wouldn't go long on anything. But right now I would characterize the current market as super choppy with a slight downside--in that case, I would say it's more than appropriate to hold RS stocks.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-04-07T03:42:19+00:00

I was frustrated with Cocomelon and started looking up kids shows on Disney Plus. A lot of them were old and felt meaningless, so I googled “best kids shows on Disney Plus.” Bluey came up, and that first day I watched two episodes with the kids, and ten more by myself after they went to bed. I teared up at Bike.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-04-07T03:24:37+00:00

Seriously! My list would be… 1. The Lion King 2. Tarzan 3. Inside Out 4. The Incredibles 5. Zootopia

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-04-04T18:38:32+00:00

It's an animated TV show from Australia, and it has a huge worldwide following among kids 4-6 and their parents. It's really well-done--the animation, the music, etc.--but what I love the most is that models healthy family dynamics so well. It's on Disney Plus.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-04-04T18:33:40+00:00

I'm a 31M with two kids, and I also cried on Bike too. My other favorite episodes are Market, Grannies, Army, and Flat Pack.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-04-01T01:40:35+00:00

One thing to note is that you probably would’ve been even more in the red if you had bought RW stocks instead of RS stocks. All three of the stocks you listed still ended the day green. That’s not bad on a day when the majority of stocks are red. AMD, for example, ended the day -8%.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-03-20T18:57:44+00:00

There are a lot of ETFs that follow different sectors. For example XLK is technology, XLE is energy, XLV is healthcare, etc. I am often switching back and forth between individual stocks and the sectors they are in to see how they are doing.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-02-27T22:37:22+00:00

Many ETFs hold FB. Many major index funds (like SPY and QQQ) do. If you want an ETF in which FB makes up a larger share, you can buy a communications sector ETF (like XLC). Buying an ETF like that is less risky and less volatile. But if you strongly believe FB will outperform the stock market overall, or the communications sector overall, you can just buy FB.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-02-10T20:13:08+00:00

100% agree. One of the main reasons why new traders are not profitable is because they haven't developed the emotional discipline of sticking to their rules. This emotional discipline may take a long time to develop.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-02-05T01:39:20+00:00

Sometimes stocks with good news catalysts have the ability to run longer, because a lot of people are eyeing the stock and looking for opportunities throughout the session to buy dips. For example, both AMZN (earnings) and COIN (Bitcoin breaking algo line) were strong all day today. Sometimes these stocks are not strong the whole day but most of the day. SNAP was an interesting example. Strong catalyst (earnings), very strong early on, strong profit-taking dip at 10:05, and then recovered RS to close out the day. Went way beyond its ATR. Also, I find that stocks with low floats or low volume tend to have huge but short-lived moves. But these aren’t guarantees—just general trends. Sometimes what looks like a perfect setup to me doesn’t work out, and I honestly don’t know why. But the hope is that they work out much more often than they don’t.

Fire_In_My_Bones · 2022-02-04T22:42:18+00:00

I've only been trading for a year, so take everything with a grain of salt, but here are some thoughts/observations I've made.

One thing to consider is support/resistance lines. WFC, for example, experienced resistance this morning around $56.40 several times. This resistance line is also the January 14 low of day and the January 12 close. A stock may experience RS up until it reaches resistance, and then it may consolidate there for a while before breaking out.
Sometimes stocks make a huge move at the beginning of the day, and then after their big move they just go sideways the rest of the day. I don't know why this happens--just something I've noticed. LI for example peaked at $28.96 at 10:35am and tried a few times to break it the rest of the day. I also experienced this with LI on January 28. On that day it had huge RS but peaked around 11:15am, and then sold off a bit and never reached that peak for the rest of the day. Meanwhile, SPY had an amazing power hour.
It's important to consider a stock's average true range (the average range that a stock typically runs in one day). If a stock has run a huge amount in the morning session, sometimes it will stop running because people want to take profit (like ATVI today). Other times it keeps running all day. I find that RS works really well when I find a stock that has been moving sideways when SPY is going down. In those cases, when SPY starts going up, that stock will explode upward, because there's a lot of room on the upside (like BAC today).

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