Graham Fletcher

The odd angry shot, and shot in the dark -- be prepared to duck

[Graham Fletcher @GrahamFletcher]

Hello Halloween…Welcome! https://t.co/lyrCPaqBZQ

[Graham Fletcher @GrahamFletcher]

‘…ordinary people are wise to rejoice in being ordinary people’

—a comment on the burden of being ‘important people’ and those who conflict with important people over their need to be important.

(Quote: John Goldingay —For Everyone Commentary Series: Numbers 16).

[Brian Houston @BrianCHouston]

Stay close to Jesus. He is your life source in every single season.

[Graham Fletcher @GrahamFletcher]

“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.” Soren Kierkegaard —Dammit! 🙇🏻‍♂️

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"Everything happens for a reason" is not in the Bible. Lament is. Whole psalms are people yelling at God and staying in the room. If you're in pain, you don't have to tidy it into a lesson yet. You're allowed to grieve honestly and be heard.” —Graham Joseph Hill/Substack

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My problem with "God has a plan" as a grief response: it turns a person's agony into a lecture. Job's friends said things like that and God rebuked them for it. Sometimes the holy move is to sit in the ashes and stay silent. Presence heals what platitudes wound…. Ref. Substack

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Grok AI is creepy — it responded to a message I did not initiate: ‘Create an action photo of an adorable corgi joyfully surfing deep inside a flawless curling turquoise barrel wave….’ and I found myself arguing with a ‘robot’ about why it appeared… I guess I am stupid too.

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

Trump: Would you go to Moscow?

Zelensky: It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous

Absolute banger, it's legendary to be speaking with former BEST Ukrainian commedian 🤣🤣🤣

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

For Christians in America to celebrate the Fourth of July is good and right. We are citizens of this nation, enjoying its privileges and embracing its responsibilities. So today, we grill our hamburgers, wave our flags, and shoot fireworks.

Yet, while we are citizens of this nation, our ultimate allegiance is to God as members of the kingdom of his Son. His reign, teachings, and ownership of us trump everything else. Christ is not a president we elect; he is the King under whose reign we live.

This means, at a bare minimum, that when the government or its leadership should ever ask us or try to force us to do something that, as citizens of Christ’s kingdom, we cannot do, our response must echo the apostles: “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).

It also means that our beliefs, worship, priorities, loves, and overall worldview are not shaped by the American ethos but by the teachings of the Christian Scriptures.

The Epistle of Diognetus, written in the 2nd century, captures these truths beautifully when it says of Christians: “They participate in everything as citizens, and endure everything as foreigners.”

Here is the context:

“For Christians are not distinguished from the rest of humanity by country, language, or custom. For nowhere do they live in cities of their own, nor do they speak some unusual dialect, nor do they practice an eccentric way of life. This teaching of theirs has not been discovered by the thought and reflection of ingenious people, nor do they promote any human doctrine, as some do. But while they live in both Greek and barbarian cities, as each one’s lot was cast, and follow the local customs in dress and food and other aspects of life, at the same time they demonstrate the remarkable and admittedly unusual character of their own citizenship. They live in their own countries, but only as nonresidents; they participate in everything as citizens, and endure everything as foreigners. Every foreign country is their fatherland, and every fatherland is foreign.” (Michael Holmes, The Apostolic Fathers in English).

This is a sober truth to ponder as we celebrate this day.

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OH THE ‘ SELF-REFERENTIAL’ CHURCH —-Jesus forgive me 🙏🏽.

‘Churches that are focused primarily on running a compelling Sunday service tend to become self-referential over time. The mission becomes the program. The goal becomes attendance.’

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Convicting. https://t.co/xBm9ksszpK

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Interesting. https://t.co/i5ihtxmAeP

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Keeping the facts before us will be important as this plays out — https://t.co/yQ9L90FMLK

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2. …and to all my other ‘Northern Hemisphere’ friends, may the fourth be with you …a genuine prayer.

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1. An ancient prophet got sawn in two by a wooden saw for saying things like this…glad I am not of that ilk, though I pretty much feel the same.

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Thank you senator for your own clarion Voice — https://t.co/wU0NEImcAb