Articles
Writing from Todd Birtcher — music that's worth your four minutes, things I've learned building software, and whatever else seems worth writing down.
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Updating Windows Software Is Easier Than Ever with WinGet
One command updates every application on a Windows PC. WinGet has shipped with Windows for years — here is the command that does it, and the two reasons it quietly passes some things by.
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Don’t Let One Bad Actor Redefine Your Character
Scripture asks for an open hand and a guarded heart at the same time. When your generosity is abused, the loss is not the real damage — the danger is the door closing on everyone who comes after.
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What Is Your “Net” Worth? The Ledger of a Fisher of Men
An age of billionaires measures a person by a number. The fishermen whose nets broke under one miraculous catch were asked, that same morning, to leave them — and the ledger of a life spent on other people is kept in a currency no bank can appraise.
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The Invisible Idols: When Good Things Eclipse the Ultimate Thing
Idolatry rarely looks like a golden statue anymore. It looks like family, career, even ministry — good things quietly crowding out the ultimate thing, and how to notice the swap.
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Unlocking the Text: Why the Bible Is a Message, Not a Cipher
A 1997 bestseller claimed the Hebrew Bible hides prophecies of modern events in its letters. The math, the manuscripts and the purpose of Scripture all say otherwise — its power is in the clear, readable words.
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The Unique Miracle of the Second Touch and the Grace of Second Chances
Spiritual sight is rarely a light switch. The one healing Jesus performs in two stages sits at the center of Mark — and Peter, standing right there, sees the Messiah like “trees walking around.”
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Where Living Water Flows
A back-row pew, a burst pipe, and the Sunday afternoon a church stopped being a room full of familiar strangers.
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God Owns It All
Deeds, balances, crypto, domains — every title we hold turns out to be a management contract, and open hands are lighter than clenched fists.
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Only One Name
Navigating faith in an era of fame and influence — and why Scripture keeps pulling the admired back to their feet.
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Anne Wilson’s “Who I Am To You”
A new song about identity — and a music video that takes its time getting to the point.
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What Is Success?
Your own view, the world’s, and God’s — and why you can only expect two of the three to line up.
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God’s Word is a spiritual compass for our lives
A recurring dream about a car that kept throwing itself into reverse — and why God gave us something steadier to navigate by.
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How to Make Bible Study as Exciting as a Buc-ee’s Visit
You came for gasoline. Forty-five minutes later you’re carrying two shopping bags. Seven ways to bring that same sense of discovery to Scripture.