Hey, it's Jason Woodrow, founder of the poorover.

Happy Election Day.

I wanted to hop on to encourage everyone to vote and to take just a brief minute to explain

how the pourover thinks about Election Day.

Now, anything that impacts anyone has at least some eternal impact because every single person

is an eternal image bearer of God. And politics can impact a lot of people. So it matters,

a lot. But Christians need to balance caring about politics with a calm, unshakable confidence in God and eternity. It's too easy to

become anxious and make too much of politics, pinning our hopes on a political outcome. God's plans

are not dependent on who wins this election. God will be in control and his followers' eternities will

be secure, regardless of who wins any

election in any country at any point in time. This idea of Christians needing to balance caring

and responding to what's happening in the world's day while not losing focus or their

confidence in eternity has been a core motivator for the pourover since the very beginning.

Back in 2018, I recognized that I had a very unhealthy relationship with the news and politics.

And I felt convicted and wanted to make sure that I was keeping Jesus as number one in my life.

So I started summarizing the news and pairing it with brief

biblical reminders of the same few things that I just kept getting wrong over and over and over.

They were reminders to focus on eternity, love hard to love people, and to take action when

learning about people who were hurting in need. I sent it to a few friends for

accountability, but this really was a personal exercise. Today, almost all of that is the exact same,

except this podcast has 125,000 monthly listeners, and the newsletter it's based on, just crossed

900,000 subscribers. So, some quick math,

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