Here's the "trailer" for my new book!!

Note the photo-realistic drawings...

I wrote about how I've changed my mind on marijuana for @Plough: plough.com/articles/that-…

6. You’re not entertaining enough (Maximus Decimus Meridius)

Asking my AI teacher how to spell seventeen

Thank you!

I hope you like it and I tried to write it real good.

New book alert!! My newest is now available or pre-sale.

It's about the Kingdom of God... now open for business. And how entering it--actually obeying the stuff Jesus told us to do--makes life better here and now, in myriad ways.

Like Dallas Willard always said: Discipleship t nearly as high as non-discipleship. His way of life is genius.

Thanks for considering pre-ordering. It really helps a book, I'm told.

Thankful to be friends with Sohrab and Ting.

Do NOT try to compete with them at costume-making for kids. Ting, I mean. You can totally compete with Sohrab.

My wife and I were talking about donating last night, and the first thing I saw this morning was this campaign.

Be a blessing.

For my BIRTHDAY... here's what I want: Let's help heal some kids.

Give to CURE. Any amount. I'll match you, personally.

It's about $1,000 to pay for a surgery.

I'll go up to $30k. Together, we'll be paying for 60 kids to have their lives changed.

Like Grace, for instance. 's been in pain, almost her whole life. Those days are almost over.

WORTH IT.

Somehow I doubt we'll regret, in the end, paying for kids' surgeries. Give $500, maybe. I'll give the other. Whatever you want.

Just go to cure.org/brant and I will match you!

That's what I want for my birthday. Anybody in??

Totally enjoyed talking with John Mark Comer about his new book, Into the Quiet.

Here's the interview. Our podcast is "Brant and Sherri Oddcast" and you can find it on Spotify, Google, all that stuff, too.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/240…

Living Unoffended and Unoffendable are 40% and 60% right now on Amazon. For the next few hours, anyway.

Buy for friends! Neighbors! Family! Folks in your church! Your sworn enemies and nemeses who greatly vex you!

I realize there may be some overlap there.

Okay, so here are the finalists submitted when I asked for "Make a Band Christian" on the Brant and Sherri podcast. Some of these are quality IMHO:

Nuns-n-Moses
First and Second Kings of Leon
GaliLeAnn Rhimes
Sir Sins A Lot
Deaf Leper
Malice in Chains
NWB (the “B” is Beatitudes)
Coldplague
Flock of Phariseagulls
Care Supply
FoundGarden
JC and the SonShine Band
The Village of Nazareth People
C.S. Lewis and the News
The Who… Do You Say That I Am?
A-ha...llelujah
The Moody Jews
And my personal fave: Los Logos

#makeabandchristian

And, obviously: "Make a Band About the Crusades"

Adam Antioch
Three Moors Down
30 Seconds to Templars

Honestly didn't expect people repping the Bo and Luke Duke in Amsterdam.

Just got back from Haarlem in The Netherlands.

I'm 5'10" and have never felt so short in my life. EVERYBODY is taller then me. Women, children... everyone. Zipping around.

The motto of the country is "Je maintiendrai" which I'm not sure but think means "Nephilim on Bikes"

LOTR might genuinely be one of the greatest things humans have ever put on a screen and I’m not even exaggerating. You can watch it as a kid and think it’s about hobbits and swords and this terrifying ring. Then you watch it as an adult and realize it’s basically about everything that actually matters.

Power corrupts people and evil usually starts really small..Good people can be tempted and courage isn’t about being fearless. Friendship can literally carry you when you can’t carry yourself anymore. The smallest person in the room can change the course of history. You do the right thing not because you know you’re going to win, but because it’s the right thing to do.

Honestly… I think it should be mandatory viewing for kids at some point. Not just “watch the movie” but actually dissect it. Why does Boromir fail? Why can Sam resist what other people can’t? Why does Frodo show Gollum mercy? Why is Aragorn a good leader when he spends half the story reluctant to have power? What happens when someone becomes consumed by resentment, fear, or the desire to control other people? Then make kids apply those questions to their own lives. Friendship, temptation, loyalty, courage, responsibility, choosing who you want to be when nobody is forcing you to choose correctly. There are probably more useful lessons about becoming a decent human being buried in those movies than in half the stuff we make kids memorize in school…and those are learnings and lessons that would stick and could carry you through all of life.

My favorite part is that the heroes aren’t these invincible characters either. They’re tired, scared, tempted, and completely outmatched. Half the time they have no idea what they’re doing but they just keep going….

Then somehow Peter Jackson took ALL of THAT and made three epic movies at the same time, filled them with real sets, real landscapes, thousands of extras, incredible music,… and made something that still looks better than movies being made with $200M budgets 25 years later.

I really don’t think we’ll ever get another thing like it.

I will believe that Christian sexual ethics "doesn't work" the minute you show me someone who died from lack of premarital sex.

I’m turning 57 soon. I don’t know how old I look—and don’t care much—but my kids are wonderful and now being a GRANDPA to two tiny girls IS SO AWESOME!!! The absolute sweetest thing ever.

My publisher, HarperCollins, is VERY pleased with me, as I have two books currently on ECPA bestseller lists.

This is one of them, and it’s on sale big time right now if you’re interested. It also pleases them when I tell you that. The other book is Unoffendable, which is n 500,000 sold. I never expected that.

Thank you to anyone who has read these books. I’m truly honored. I hope they were helpful and fun to read.

I'm a dog guy, but I admit it: Cats are just plain cool.

Taylor Swift isn't an outlier for going wild over "that's my husband." Wives who rate their husbands as more masculine happier & far less likely to be considering divorce.

✔️ 74% of wives w/ more masculine husbands are "very happy" in their marriage vs. 69% of wives w/ less mascsay divorce is "not at all likely" vs. 45% for less masculine husbands.