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On The Rise: How much of your life should you broadcast? + Failed apocalypses.
Published about 7 hours ago • 4 min read
Welcome to the On The Rise newsletter, where I feature fascinating, helpful, and sometimes curious content that caught my attention this week.
Today, some interesting thoughts about how much of your personal life you should put online.
Plus, a website that chronicles all the failed predictions of the end of the world, discovering your working genius, and some Booker Prize-nominated authors’ favorite writing spots.
Should You Broadcast Your Life?
When chronicling everything on social media turns your life into slop.
When I proposed to my wife back in the day, it was a pretty low-key affair. Me, her, a ring, and me getting down on one knee in a park. We didn’t even have a photographer. Nobody did back then. It was just the two of us.
Now, everything gets chronicled.
Personally, I’ve shared fewer personal things on social media over the years. Not that I don’t want to be transparent, but mostly because I want special moments between me, my wife, my family, and my close friends to remain, well, special. And by that I mean not chronicled publicly all the time.
Marketing your memories also desecrates them…Your precious memories are my mindless entertainment. Your trauma becomes my background noise.
Your life-shattering divorce becomes my slop. Your children my characters; your pain my distraction; your feelings are my filler episodes.
I will swipe past your birth video when I get bored. I will downvote your divorce if it isn’t entertaining enough.
Your life is what I clean my kitchen to, what I kill time with. And if you fail to entertain me, fine, I will scroll for another life to consume.
What happens when everything you think of doing in the day becomes a form of entertainment for others? Do you become someone you’re not? Perhaps you do, she argues.
Some great food for thought.
Your Vision for 2026 Starts Here
Don’t just plan your budget… shape your church’s future.
This is the perfect time to dive back into Fund the Future masterclass.
As you’re wrapping up your budget for 2026, you have something far more impactful than a spreadsheet: A system for casting a powerful vision that invites transformational giving.
The sooner you start applying these lessons, the more confident you’ll be heading into 2026.
A Website That Records Every Failed Apocalypse Prediction
Plus some fresh ones to come.
As you prepare for your next End Times series, you can use this handy website to check if your predicted date for the end of the world is still available.
I know, bad joke.
It's still interesting to me that someone put this website together.
Here’s to more solid theological education about end times. I once did a 22-week sermon series on Revelation that didn’t predict the day or the hour. Imagine that.
The Power of Compassion
Compassion International is changing lives through people like you.
Living life as a surrendered believer in Jesus, I am routinely challenged by what it truly means to have compassion for others; to not just have knowledge, feelings, and opinions about the things I see and experience every day, but to be fully moved by Christ to a spirit of generous and compassionate living.
As a pastor, I wonder how that's going for you, your family, and your community this holiday season?
Do you feel a deep sense of compassion? Can you imagine what might change if you did? I encourage you to visit my friends at Compassion International by clicking here and learning how you can grow your generosity today. Find out more at www.compassion.com/carey.
I ran into Patrick Lencioni backstage at the ThinQ summit last month, where we were both speaking, and then I heard him give another excellent talk on Working Genius.
I’m amazed at how many people still don’t know about this framework. I’m even more amazed I haven’t listed it here yet in my book recommendations.
You will learn so much about yourself and your team when you understand the six working geniuses. It’s made me a better boss and husband.
YouVersion CEO Bobby Gruenewald talks about what's right and wrong with AI, and shares some shocking examples of why Christians can't trust AI for biblical accuracy.
Bobby also explains how it took 13 years to reach 500 million installs, but only four years to reach a billion, and the changes YouVersion made to accelerate bible reach.
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