As Christians who vote consider the respective policies and morality of each candidate, make sure you don’t forget about the military industrial complex and all the war profiteering that lines of pockets of elites and leads to the killing of hundreds of thousands of people.
In her grief, Mary Magdalene didn’t recognize the resurrected Christ.
She thought he was the gardener.
Then he called her by name.
Happy Easter, my friends!
When we fail to recognize Jesus because of our sorrows, he is faithful to reveal himself to us, too.
He is alive!
If you don’t speak the truth in love, you’re not really honoring the truth. If you tell the truth anywhere, anytime, you don’t care about the fact that you’re saying it in the wrong tone, you’re saying it at the wrong time, in the wrong setting, or maybe that you’re not supposed to be the person to say it, that shows you don’t care about whether the truth gets through. – @timkellernyc
Sermon, Let Your Yes Be Yes
The way you know the difference between a Christian and a religious person – a person who really knows God and a person who just has a nominal kind of religious morality – is wonder. – @timkellernyc
The death of @timkellernyc is an incalculable loss to the church, the world, to those of us who loved him, those of us he helped in our darkest hours.
This is gain for Tim, now in the presence of Christ. He need no longer explain the reason for God, just to enjoy him forever.
Seeing lots of stories about how Ralph is a great student, an accomplished bass clarinet player.
I LOVE celebrating who he is like that, but also…
He doesn’t need to have accomplished all those things for us to believe in our guts that his life matters, that this is a tragedy.
“Western churches continue to think about ‘going to heaven’ or ‘going to hell’ as the framework for the Gospel but the Bible story is not about us going somewhere but the Creator God coming to live with us.”
N.T. Wright
Here’s the thing.
If we aren’t supposed to be the first to lay down our rights & our privileges & even our lives for the sake of others being set free and made whole- then what do we mean when we say being confirmed to the likeness of Christ?
Honestly. What?
It will be hard for you to convince people that you care about where they spend the life to come, if you are not concerned about the unjust systems and suffering they experience in this life.
Here's a quick thread that dives a little deeper into my tweet below.
There are really hard things happening all around us, and I know we want to comfort those who are hurting, but please resist the urge to respond to tragedy with trite platitudes like...
CS Lewis in his book 'The Four Loves' says one can have affection for your nation. The danger is if you airbrush the evils and injustices out of your nation's history.