Seth Troutt
@Seth_Troutt
⛪️ pastor at Ironwood Church 👨🏻💻writing about pastoring, technology, fitness, masculinity, and life with Jesus. 🥩🏋🏻
“You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive. For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears.”
Primary school uses trans actor Elliot Page as a positive example of masculinity ➡️ bit.ly/3IEipl0
Therapy culture often teaches boundaries but not repair. We’re good at cutting off, bad at healing. Relief isn’t always resolution. Avoidance disguised as “self-care” is still avoidance. We need more tools for connection, not just protection.
I am late to the game but this essay from @dougponder in @Christ_OverAll is wildly good: christoverall.com/article/longfo…
Today on BreakPoint, I take stock of the growing evidence that smart phones are terrible for kids, and new surveys that show parents who delay giving their children these devices have few if any regrets.
Things that are severely overrated: 1. Disneyland 2. Fireworks 3. Legoland 4. Pizza 5. Cats 6. Beer 7. Los Angeles 8. The Pilgrim's Progress 9. Doctorate degrees 10. Dogs
My latest in TGC - some pastoral reflections on the woman at the well in John 4.
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"I've been sober for seven months now." This morning in the sauna I had a conversation with a guy about my age. "Sober from what?" I asked. "Alcohol and pornography," he answered. "What happened seven months ago?" "My wife left me." "Because of the porn or the alcohol?"…
“Rightly ordered aggression.” “Strength that honors.” “Holy aggression.” Loving the latest @RenOfMen episode on Christian masculinity with Seth Troutt. 🔥⚔️🔥
Are Mormons Christians? YouTube: youtu.be/Vn9BmGoaIl4?si… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kin… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5YMjcp…
What internet/scrolling life did to our brains from 2005-2025 is nothing compared to what AI life will do to our brains, 2025-2045. We’re in an age of accelerating “cognitive atrophy.” Humans losing the capacity to think will become ever more brutish. Ape-like.
BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)
Remember: what these people call “gender-affirming care” is actually conversion therapy; and what they call “conversion therapy” is actually gender-affirming care.
APA denounces today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding state-level bans on gender-affirming medical care for transgender adolescents. #science #healthcare #psychology
If you could sell your fingers for $15 million per finger how many would you sell?
Sex difference in athletics is significant far before the onset of puberty. "Male children have an approximately 10% higher maximal aerobic capacity than female children." journals.lww.com/acsm-esm/fullt…
You should listen to Gagnon.
youtube.com/watch?v=bK_25h… Just published on YouTube. Please share it. I believe it will bless the church and provide apologetic information to brothers and sisters in the faith that they won't get anywhere else. In this video I show the historical indefensibility of Dan McClellan’s…
What is Israel? Who are the Jews? Let’s ask The Hebrew of Hebrews, Paul: For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. 29 But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter (Romans…
Sen. Ted Cruz tries (and fails) to use the Bible to justify his support for Israel’s bombing of Iran. Watch the full episode today at 1PM ET on TuckerCarlson.com.
WNBA = WWE WNBA ≠ NBA
Things were HEATED between the Sun and Fever tonight 😳 -Caitlin Clark T'd up -Marina Mabrey T'd up -Jacy Sheldon assessed flagrant -Sophie Cunningham ejected