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Dec 9, 2024 | 
jaykimthinks.substack.com | Jay Kim
Our daughter Harper entered the world in darkness. She heard familiar voices but she didn’t open her eyes to see unfamiliar faces for almost the first full day of life. Curt Thompson writes that, “We are all born into the world looking for someone looking for us.” I knew this intrinsically about my daughter long before I’d read anything about it. I know it about myself, and about you. This longing is in us. Amid the various debates about nature versus nurture, this is not in doubt.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
jaykimthinks.substack.com | Jay Kim
We’ve entered now into that great American season called the holidays. The weeks between Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day are a strange convergence of reverence, rest, consumption, and chaos. We settle into the annual rhythm of winding down, reflecting back, and looking ahead. We simultaneously rail against the rhythm of our bodies through copious consumption (I am admittedly guilty of this) and rage against the rhythm of the day by electrifying the night with ludicrous luminosity.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
jaykimthinks.substack.com | Jay Kim
“We’re leaving this church.” Very few pastoral conversations are as painful as the ones involving those four words. They weigh heavy on the heart. Some versions, typically the ones that include, “We’re moving and we’re sad to go,” weigh far less than others, like the ones that include ecclesiological critique. And of course, the ones that include personal critique weigh heaviest of all. Over the course of twenty years in local church ministry, I’ve had my fair share of these heavy interactions.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Bradley Bell |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Jay Kim |Justin Taylor
When I was in third grade, my mother enrolled me in Children’s Bible Drill. It was certainly a well-titled activity. After hours of memorizing Bible passages, the class “drilled” together, competing to find and recite passages the quickest—at military attention, no less. I can’t say I enjoyed those drills. But what I’ve enjoyed over the past 30 years is being able to share the gospel using all the Scripture coded into my memory.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Andrew Spencer |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Jay Kim |Justin Taylor
Parenting can feel like an endless attempt to hang on for dear life as the weeks go by. Children change; the culture changes; the demands of work, extended family, and church ebb and flow. Kids don’t come with instruction books, and there are as many opinions about child rearing as there are people in this world. How can we do this parenting thing well? You’ll often read in quality Christian parenting books that sanctification is at the heart of parenting well.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Jay Kim |Chris Castaldo |Tim Keller |Justin Taylor
“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.” (Jer. 29:7)During most of my college years, I worked part-time at a bank. I started as a teller before eventually becoming an assistant branch manager. The job paid well, especially for a young college kid, and was straightforward. It was the sort of work that was easy to leave behind when the workday ended.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
jaykimthinks.substack.com | Jay Kim
In 2005, Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live grenade at then-President George W. Bush during an event in Tbilisi, the capital city of the Republic of Georgia. The grenade was live but Arutyunian had it wrapped in a handkerchief, which prevented the striker lever from releasing. President Bush had no idea just how close he’d come to death until after the event. I was 25 at the time and have some very vague recollections of the story but had to look it up for details.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
jaykimthinks.substack.com | Jay Kim
In the 14th century BC, the Egyptians began construction on what would eventually become a nearly 2-miles long stretch of road called The Avenue of the Sphinxes, connecting two temples dedicated to the deities of their pantheon and the kings who were their earthly embodiments. The path would eventually be lined with more than 1,300 statues, most of them featuring the bodies of lions adorned by the heads of various pharaohs—the images of the gods.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
jaykimthinks.substack.com | Jay Kim
(Adapted from a brief talk I gave at a TGC Good Faith Debate in 2023)Today, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy urged Congress to add warning labels on social media platforms, akin to what we see on tobacco and alcohol products. For several years now, I and others have noted the striking correlation between shifts in public perception around cigarettes a half century ago and an increasing awareness of the dangers of digital technologies today.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
record.com.mx | Jay Kim
Jay Kim, reconocido por su colaboración con artistas de renombre como Luhan de EXO, Jay Park y The Boyz, estará a cargo de las clasesEl INJUVE ofrece talleres gratuitos de K-Pop impartidos por el coreógrafo Jay Kim, quien ha trabajado con artistas famosos como Luhan de EXO y Jay Park. Los talleres se llevarán a cabo los días 18 y 20 de junio en las instalaciones del INJUVE y Jay Kim fusiona baile urbano y ballet en su estilo único de B-boy.
