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[Scott Roberts @ScottRoberts]

Quick observations:

1. Believers, don't get your theology from contemporary Christian artists.

2. The goal of Bible reading is not finishing a reading plan. It's knowing God.

3. The local church is God's plan for Christian growth. There is no biblical substitute.

4. The apostles never told unbelievers to follow their hearts.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“Your future is shaped by the habits you repeat, not the goals you set.”

[Pastor Tomiwa Immanuel @TomiwaImmanuel]

If you know you don't like her like that, leave her alone. Stop sending mixed signals. Stop using her affection-induced attention to stroke your ego. It's wicked and ungodly.

Stop it, brother. You're God's son, don't behave like satan.

[rhien @DarhodaP]

@educatedtug01 Wall Geckos😅

[Lyn🦋 @_ayandamay]

I overheard a girl saying yesterday ‘worrying is such a terrible use of your imagination’ … and I audibly gasped.

[Iyaloja of Fields 🙌🏽 @bisolabadejo]

Jesus is a feminist” is not primarily about whether Jesus valued women, He clearly did. The issue is that “feminist” is a modern ideological label with multiple meanings, histories, and assumptions attached to it.

So the problem with the statement is this:

1. It places Jesus inside a human ideological framework. Christians believe Jesus is not best understood through modern political or social movements. From that perspective, saying:

“Jesus is a feminist” can sound like:

“Jesus fits inside feminism,”

rather than:

“Feminism must be evaluated through Jesus.”

For us as believers, Christ is the standard, not an ideology.

Secondly, “Feminism” is not a single, fixed thing
Some people mean:

equal dignity of men and women,
opposition to abuse,
access to education,
protection of women’s rights.

Others include ideas Christians disagree with:

radical individualism,
rejection of biblical sexual ethics,
hostility to motherhood or marriage,
gender ideology,
antagonism toward religion.

So the statement becomes unclear because “feminist” carries many competing meanings.

Jesus transcends modern categories. Jesus defended women, taught women publicly, received women disciples, appeared first to women after resurrection, protected vulnerable women, and challenged male hypocrisy.

But He also:

affirmed marriage,
affirmed creation order,
spoke about holiness,
called both men and women to submission to God.

And the point I made in that video; Calling Jesus a Feminist is anachronistic.
Feminism is a movement that emerged in a particular historical context centuries after Jesus’ earthly ministry.

So, Jesus was not “a feminist” in the historical sense,though feminism may agree with some things Jesus taught about human dignity.

A statement many Christians would find more accurate is:

“Jesus radically affirmed the dignity, value, and humanity of women.”

That avoids importing Him wholesale into a modern ideological category while still recognizing how countercultural His treatment of women was in the ancient world.

[Iyaloja of Fields 🙌🏽 @bisolabadejo]

What many people miss is that Christianity is not merely a religion one practices alongside other ideological identities. Christianity is a total worldview. It is a complete reorientation of reality through the Lordship of Christ.

This is why the New Testament language of salvation is so expansive. We are not merely told to “attend” Christianity. We are said to be:

born again (John 3:3),
transferred into a Kingdom (Colossians 1:13),
adopted into a family (Romans 8:15),
made citizens of heaven (Philippians 3:20),
transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2),
crucified and raised with Christ (Galatians 2:20).

Christianity is not simply a belief system added onto an existing identity. It is the death and replacement of the old identity altogether.

This is why phrases like:

“Christian feminist,”
“Christian nationalist,”
“Christian liberal,”
“Christian conservative,”

can become problematic when the adjective begins to function as the interpretive lens through which Christianity itself is understood.

Because Christianity was never designed to be a modifier. Christ is not an attachment to another worldview. Christ is THE worldview.

The believer does not primarily derive meaning from ideology, tribe, politics, gender theory, class struggle, or culture. The believer derives meaning from union with Christ.

Paul says in Galatians 2:20:

“I have been crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me…” (KJV)

Notice the violence of salvation language. Christianity is not self-improvement. It is death and resurrection.

This is also why Scripture repeatedly presents the Kingdom of God as an all-encompassing reality:

a Kingdom (Matthew 6:33),
a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17),
a holy nation (1 Peter 2:9),
a family (Ephesians 2:19),
the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16).

Even the word “Lord” is governmental language. To call Jesus “Lord” is to declare ultimate allegiance.

This is where the C.S. Lewis idea becomes important. Lewis argued that Christianity is not merely a set of moral suggestions added onto life; it is the lens through which all of life is interpreted. Like light itself:

You do not merely look at Christianity; you look through it and see everything else differently.

So when someone says:

“Jesus is a feminist,”

the concern is not simply semantic. The concern is theological.

Because Jesus is not best understood as a subset of a modern ideology. Rather, every ideology must bow before Christ and be examined through Him.

Christianity certainly affirms truths that feminism identified:

the dignity of women,
the value of women,
the protection of women from abuse,
the spiritual equality of men and women before God.

But Christianity also critiques every human ideology wherever it departs from God’s design.

That is why the Christian’s highest identity is never ultimately:

feminist,
capitalist,
socialist,
traditionalist,
progressive,
nationalist,
activist.

The Christian’s highest identity is: “in Christ.”

Colossians 3:11 says: “…Christ is all, and in all.” (KJV)

Not Christ plus.
Not Christ modified.
Not Christ filtered through ideology.

Christ is all.

[Iyaloja of Fields 🙌🏽 @bisolabadejo]

There is also a conversation we need to have with Christian men.

Because some of you speak about women with an underhanded disdain that is deeply un-Christlike, then hide behind “biblical order” to justify it.

You cannot simply look at every Christian woman who resonates with feminism and dismiss her as rebellious. History has shown women have had reasons to fight. The Church is not entirely innocent in the abuse and silencing of women. We have sometimes weaponized Scripture instead of rightly dividing it.

Some women did not become angry because they hate God. They became angry because people used God against them.

There are women who have been talked down to, ignored, diminished, spiritually manipulated, and emotionally controlled in church spaces while men quoted “submission” at them like a threat.

And when women begin to push back against that, you cannot automatically label them rebellious without enough humility to ask:

“What exactly are they reacting to?”

Because even in Scripture, God did not condemn women who challenged systems.

The daughters of Zelophehad fought.
They contended.
They challenged a structure that disadvantaged them.

And God said:

“The daughters of Zelophehad speak right.” (Numbers 27:7)

Not rebellious.
Not dishonorable.
Not with the spirit of Jezebel…
Right.

Some of you need to realize that being male does not automatically make your interpretation superior.

Statements like:

“Woman was created later, therefore she is lesser,”
“Eve was deceived, therefore women are inferior,”
“Men are naturally superior because Adam came first,”

do not make you sound spiritually mature. They make you sound biblically unintelligent.

Genesis 1 says:

“Male and female created he them.”

God did not create woman as an afterthought. He had both genders in mind from the beginning.

And Genesis 2 is not about superiority.
It is about order.

Order does not mean value.

Christ and the Church have order.
The Father and the Son have order.
Order is not inferiority.

In fact, biblical leadership is not domination.
Christ never used His position to belittle the Church, He died for her.

So how did some Christian men become more arrogant than Christ?

You brandish submission like a weapon.
You speak about masculinity like it is superiority.
You talk about women as though leadership means lordship.

News flash, you are not a biblical male. You are carnally minded and we all know what that means.

To lead in our Kingdom is to serve. Where is your service?!

And if creation order is your argument for superiority, then goats should be greater than men because animals were created before Adam.

The logic collapses immediately.

The truth is many women are angry because they encountered distortion disguised as doctrine.
Male ego preached as theology.
Misogyny defended with proof texts.

And instead of constantly rushing to call women rebellious, maybe Christian men need enough self-awareness to ask:

“Have we represented Christ properly?”

Because many women are not rejecting Christ.
They are reacting to men who looked nothing like Him.

Love and Light… with a sprinkle of Holy Ghost Fire.

[Hibeekay @SavyIBK]

Talk to Date
Date to marry
Marry to serve God together
Anything else I don’t want.

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

pay solid attention;

an average millionaire is 40 not 23
an average billionaire is 55 not 35
the average age to buy a house is 35 not 25
most men hit their peak confidence at 32 not in their 20s
it takes the average person 66 days to build a habit not 7
the average ceo is 57 not 30
most people meet their life partner after 27 not 18
the average successful business takes 5-7 years not 6 months
most people don’t know what they want until they’re 30 not at graduation

stop letting social media brainwash you. you are not behind, you’re on your own track. live it ❤️

[Thomas @Owishemwe]

Infidelity is such an interesting concept, you’re cheating on someone you chose to be with…like no one forced you to be with this person…it was a conscious decision you made to be with this person and now you’re cheating on them.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 2020, a Stockholm University lab mixed sperm and egg fluid from 16 couples in a dish. Some men's sperm got pulled toward the fluid much harder than others. And in half the cases, the egg picked a stranger's sperm over the partner's.

The egg releases a chemical bait. Sperm carry tiny smell sensors on their heads that pick up that bait. When the smell matches, the sperm speeds up and swims straight at the egg. When it doesn't, the sperm slows down or loses its line. The lead researcher, John Fitzpatrick, called it a chemical breadcrumb trail.

The sperm race is mostly a myth. A man releases around 100 million sperm at a time. Only about 250 ever reach the egg. The rest die along the way. The vagina is acidic and kills most of them. The cervix makes thick mucus that traps them like flypaper. The womb's immune system attacks them as foreign invaders. And half of the survivors pick the wrong fallopian tube, because only one of the two tubes has the egg in it.

By the time anyone even gets close, the race is already over. Then the egg picks.

The egg is selecting for immune-system genes. The more different the father's immune genes are from the mother's, the wider the range of diseases their child can fight off later. So the egg favors sperm that bring more genetic diversity.

Fitzpatrick thinks this could explain some of the 30% of infertility cases doctors label "unexplained." For some couples, their bodies just don't chemically match, even when everything else does.

Out of 100 million sperm, your father's chemistry was the one the egg agreed to let in. Which means all of us are, in some way, the quiet outcome of a chemistry test no one studied for.

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

If you ask a doctor what the hardest part of the job is, we could list a dozen things. But the truth? It’s witnessing parents outlive their children.

It defies the natural order of the world. That level of grief is so profound, so fundamentally wrong, that it simply cannot be processed.

[𝗡𝗶𝗵𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗮𝗶 MD, DM @nihardesai89]

Share a medical fact that absolutely blows your mind 😮

[rhien @DarhodaP]

@SamarRahman14 @nihardesai89 This truly blew my mind

[Dr. AK 🇮🇳 @docakx]

If a pregnant woman is carrying a female fetus, she is literally carrying the eggs that could one day become her own grandchildren.

The female fetus develops all her lifetime supply of eggs while still in the womb. So three generations coexist inside one body at that moment.

[Victoria @wuraa_olaaa]

First year of marriage is not for having kids.

[Van Lathan Jr @VanLathan]

The first time someone asks about the person not knowing they died.

You watch the person die again in the face of their person you broke the news to.

They were alive to them. Then they died to them.

You remember when that happened to you and it feels like the first day again.

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.