"Rizz," "adulting," "dumbphone," "brain-rot," "doomscrolling" — Merriam-Webster is adding 5,000 new words this year, and Stephen Davey uses that list to paint a picture of a world drowning in noise, where the average American now processes 300 news items a day. Into that flood, Peter writes a strange prayer in 2 Peter 1:2: not that believers would receive grace and peace, but that it would multiply — the same word once used for a river overflowing its banks. Davey unpacks common grace, saving grace, and what Bonhoeffer called cheap grace, showing how the real thing empowers believers to handle hardship with actual happiness and answer critics with kindness instead of noise of their own. Peace, he insists, was never a promise of a quiet world — it's the presence of God inside a loud one. The prescription is simple: turn down the volume, and open the Book.
The Crowded Life
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