Jonas Ellison

Prone to wander. | Catholic Lutheran. Panentheist. Anamchara. Liturgy enthusiast. Waywardly Contemplative.

[Jonas Ellison @JonasEllison]

Okay, how do you work this Twitter thing? Let's see here... *Pulls out screwdriver

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

In a world torn by rage and anxiety, one of the greatest gifts followers of Jesus are called to offer is simple, non-anxious (i.e. calm) presence.

Not a presence removed from this reality, but a presence that refuses to be shaped by it.

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👏👏👏

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians who understand the gospel also repent of their self-righteousness, of trusting in their goodness and moral efforts.

[Michael Frost @michaelfrost6]

I was saving this until Advent, but it’s too good. Biblical womanhood, folks.

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Pure genius 😂 So good!!

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I’m not crying, you’re crying…

[Simon Holland @simoncholland]

Real growth as a person happens when you realize it’s just better to run the dishwasher with less dishes in it.

[Jonas Ellison @JonasEllison]

Anfechtungen scrolling…

[Amanda Held Opelt @AmandaHeldOpelt]

Reformation Day... I love how Martin Luther has the look of a man who is tired of arguing on Twitter.

[Amanda Held Opelt @AmandaHeldOpelt]

The more I learn about Ancient Greek/Roman/pagan philosophy & ethics, the more I realize how innovative Christianity was when it burst onto the scene.

Humility, beauty in suffering, a kind deity, mutual compassion. We take these concepts for granted but they were unparalleled.

[Simon Holland @simoncholland]

We have now been a cereal in clear containers family for over a month and it really does feel nice to be better than everyone.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

What if at the end of history, the question God asks us is not whether we abstained from sin.

What if the question is “Did you enter into the joy that was available to you?”

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

A Christianity that believes it needs political power, a president, legislation, and a nation to ensure its survival is a Christianity that actually dethrones Jesus as the actual savior of the nations and advances a belief that even Jesus needs a nation to be his savior.

[Jonas Ellison @JonasEllison]

#sabbath

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I hope this weekend you can resist the terrible compulsion to be *productive.* I hope you find time to read and dance and create for their own sakes and not for any profit. I hope you have moments of being just overcome with joy by the weirdness and wonder of being.

[Jonas Ellison @JonasEllison]

Here’s how it works throughout the Bible (and in life). 
1God blesses people.
2People bless people.
3People bless God.
4(Repeat)

[Jonas Ellison @JonasEllison]

I don't want church to feel normal. Keep liturgy weird. It's the tradition.

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

I call on all people of goodwill to mobilize for the abolition of the death penalty throughout the world. Society can effectively repress crime without definitively depriving the offenders of the possibility of redeeming themselves. #EndDeathPenalty

[Christian Quotes @ReformedPastors]

When I look at myself, I don't see how I can be saved.

But when I look at Christ, I don't see how I can be lost.

Martin Luther

[Lecrae @lecrae]

I’m not progressive.
I’m not liberal.
I’m not conservative.
I’m Kingdom.

[Jonas Ellison @JonasEllison]

"Wondering how things will be for me after I die seems, for the most part, a distraction. When my clear goal is the eternal life, that life must be reachable right now, where I am, because eternal life is life in and with God, and God is where I am here and now."
- Henri Nouwen

[Seamus Heaney @HeaneyDaily]

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.