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@IfindRetards I'm gonna need @MerriamWebster to chime in on this one!

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@MensHumor I ordered two crunchwraps, a beefy 5-layer burrito, and some nacho fries and it was almost $30! Sometimes I need to be reminded of why I never go there anymore 🤦

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@signulll

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@AutismCapital @dfgdsfgxcf @nikitabier said this only applies to content on one's FYP. If you manually browse to an X post, this weighting system doesn't apply.

[Trevor Sheatz @TrevorSheatz]

Christian, your fight against sin is proof that the Holy Spirit is at work in you.

If you weren't saved, you wouldn't be battling.

Keep fighting, and keep running to Jesus.

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@nikitabier @MarioNawfal @iang_fc @pangram

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If your theological convictions are not actively making you more gracious, humble, and repentant than your beliefs are not being shaped by Jesus they’re motivated by a desire to be argumentatively “right.”

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@jackduval Certified Chad

[Fr. Cassidy Stinson @TheHappyPriest]

Look, I'm still not the kind of priest to say things like "they're putting demons in the robots," but the chainsaw-wielding black drones with eyeball horns are making it harder to argue my case

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@Fat_Electrician I think my friend @TheBrancaShow may disagree

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Sometimes I think of the things I’ve said publicly where I misspeak, over speak, and just plain get it wrong, and really struggle. Those moments replaying in my head like a dripping faucet. James 3:2 reminds me that everyone stumbles repeatedly, and this universal experience isn’t hidden or shameful, it’s acknowledged as part of our humanity. This isn’t an excuse for those times, but reassurance not to dwell on them.

I need to be continually reminded that my identity in light of my inadequacy rests on God’s response to my failures. God compassionates those who fear him, knowing our fragile nature and that we are dust (Ps 103:10–14). Rather than withdrawing, God demonstrates his love by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners (Rom 5:8). This means acceptance precedes our improvement. God knows how truly inadequate and incompetent I am, and yet still accepts me. Not because of my successes and failures but in spite of them.

We should strive to get things right, do things well, and show competence. But rather than demanding perfection, Christ understands our struggles and invites us to approach God’s throne confidently to receive mercy and grace in our time of need when we inevitably fall short (Heb 4:15–16).

Recovery from failure receives particular emphasis. The righteous fall repeatedly but rise again (Prov 24:16), and though the righteous fall, they won’t be destroyed because God holds them by the hand (Ps 37:23–24). God’s mercies are new each morning, and his faithfulness is great (Lam 3:22–23); suggesting that each day offers fresh opportunity regardless of yesterday’s failures.

I need the constant encouragement to forget what lies behind and press forward toward the goal (Phil 3:13–14), indicating that dwelling on past mistakes contradicts the gospel’s forward momentum. I have made many mistakes: some more public than others! And guess what, I will continue to do so, but my prayer is that God and those around me give me grace in such instances. Look towards Jesus — the only one who got and gets it right every time.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

“Your God CRIED?”

I used to say it with a little laugh. “If Jesus was God, why did He weep like a weak man?”

I mocked the shortest verse in the Bible. Years later it brought me to my knees.

“Jesus wept.” John 11:35. Two words. It should bring you to your knees.

Then I actually read WHERE He’s standing. At the tomb of His friend Lazarus. And here’s the part that undoes me: He’s about to raise him. In sixty seconds He’ll shout that dead man back to life. The victory is already loaded.

And He weeps ANYWAY.

He didn’t have to. The happy ending was already in His hand. But He looked at the grief around Him, the sisters, the mourners, the sheer wreckage that death makes of everything, and He entered it.

He let it hit Him. God, with tears running down His face, at the graveside of someone He loved.

The God of Islam was too majestic to weep. I was proud of that. Until I met a God who was strong enough to.

“We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses.” Hebrews 4:15.

Whatever you’re burying right now. He’s not watching from a safe distance.

He’s the God who weeps at gravesides.

And then empties them. For all eternity.

Praise the King Jesus.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If you are a Christian your confidence today rests on foundations that cannot be shaken. If God is for you, and He has not spared His own Son but delivered Him up for all of you, then He will graciously give you all things with Him. (Rom 8:28–39) And please don’t hear this as a platitudinal X post: it flows from the reality of your election. God chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless, predestining you for adoption as His children according to His pleasure and will.

The Puritan theologians are helpful here, and understood something vital about this assurance: election and covenant work together, offering troubled believers a double source of assurance; you can plead the covenant with God, asking Him to fulfill His promises, while simultaneously finding comfort in the sufficiency of His prevenient grace and the immutability of His will in election. Your election is not fragile or conditional on your performance, as I’ve said before, your salvation is received not achieved. God’s immutable decree of election proceeds from His perfect counsel, the basis for maintaining His people in sanctification and imparting to them an inward principle of holiness.

Yet this absolute promise does not leave you passive. God’s love, made known to you, draws you out of yourself toward Him in orderly, faithful obedience. The conditional promises of the covenant are inseparable from your daily renewal of it through prayer, meditation, and worship. Your obedience becomes the very means by which you experience and confirm what God has already secured.

Anchor yourself in the permanence of God’s word. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words will not pass away. (Matt 24:35) All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness. (2 Tim 3:16–17) In this word, your election is declared, your redemption is promised, and your perseverance is guaranteed — not by your strength, but by His.

[Sterling454 @454Sterling]

@trad_west_ First Knight!

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@barsanuphius77 You can't forget Last Knight with Sean Connery, Richard Gete, and Julia Ormond!

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@anduriltech Equal parts badass and terrifying.

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Unfathomably Based

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

The High-T Department of War.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

One of the best parts about being a Christian is knowing that God wins in the end.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Here’s a really good small group Bible study question…

What did the original audience think this meant?

Granted, there can be more to Scripture than the limited understanding of the original audience. But there won’t be less.

Use this question to cause the group to get out of their own personal context enough to avoid unintentionally abusing Scripture (which happens all the time). Perhaps they will struggle to answer. That’s ok. Perhaps they will find that this feels dry or unrewarding at first because they are so used to quick, uninformed interpretations that cater to their personal situations. That’s ok. In the long run this is very healthy and worthwhile.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Worst small group question for Bible studies…

“What does it mean to you?”

Don’t ask what it means TO YOU but what it means independent of whether you exist or not.