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[Slimfit @iSlimfit]

She didn’t lie at all 😂

[DSA Watch @DSA_Watch]

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[LocomotiveBreath @LocoBreath1]

@WalterHudson Walter could you explain something. What does the MN dept of corrections and our local/County jails do differently? The policies should be easy to understand. Do they both honor ice requests for detention?

[LocomotiveBreath @LocoBreath1]

@Rainmaker1973 Diarrhea.

[LocomotiveBreath @LocoBreath1]

@greggutfeld @DanaPerino @JesseBWatters A book well worth reading on how empathy is weaponized:

https://t.co/OOkAibbbpz

[LocomotiveBreath @LocoBreath1]

@megbasham I love what @jamesmacdonald once said and that was, I think, 'God tells men to preach His Word and He will take care of the rest.' We are made to know the Truth. When we hear it we will come.

[Power Beast @powerbeastt]

There's a guy who goes around US asking 70 to 100-year-olds their:

• Biggest Regrets
• Biggest Lessons
• Advice to their younger self

Most of their answers are the same…

Here are my top 8:

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Our Entire Hope in Three Hebrew Words

During the years that David was on the run from Saul, he often turned a cave into a hideout. There he would hunker down. Wait. Hope. And pray.

That's what he's doing in Psalm 57, one of the chapters we read today in Bible in One Year (https://t.co/XxNvEtNH7e).

In three Hebrew words, David summarizes his hope—and ours. He says that he will cry to “El gomer alay" (לָאֵל גֹּמֵר עָלָי Ps. 57:2).

El is “God” and alay is “for me,” but what about gomer? The verb behind “gomer” means “bring to an end, fulfill, complete.”

It has been translated as:
“God who fulfills his purpose for me” (ESV).
“God who accomplishes all things for me” (NASB).
“God that performeth all things for me” (KJV).

God is the one who gomers us, that is, who brings us to the goal that he wills for us. His purpose for us will come to fruition. No enemy, no fear, no threat, nothing, and no one will stop the God who gomers for us.

That is our hope in three Hebrew words. We cry to El gomer alay, to the God whose good and gracious will for us cannot be stopped—a will that anchors us to hope incarnate, Jesus the Messiah.

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

What Does the Bible Say About Magic?

The Bible says surprisingly more about magic than most people realize.

In Hebrew, multiple names exist for people involved in the magical arts. Deuteronomy 18 lists eight of them and declares them all to be an abomination: “one who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead” (vv. 10-11). The last three involve communication with the dead (v. 12).

Today, we tend to separate magic from religion. Not so in the ancient world. They were inextricably linked as part of the same belief system. Gods and spiritual forces were summoned, placated, manipulated, or otherwise involved in effecting events in the lives of humans. Magic was not for show or entertainment, Las Vegas style, but for telling the future, harming enemies, curing ailments, removing infertility, and many other aspects of personal and national life.

In Acts 19, one of the chapters we read today in Bible in One Year (https://t.co/XxNvEtNH7e ), we hear about “those who had practiced magic arts” in Ephesus. When they became Christians, they burned their books of magic (19:19). One commentary notes, "These magical incantations were so common in Ephesus that rolls of these formulas are called Ephesia grammata, or Ephesian writings, in other Greco-Roman literature" (Craig S. Keener).

Followers of Jesus do not turn to sorcerers, necromancers, omen-tellers, or any other magicians listed in Deuteronomy 18. To whom do we turn? To the one spoken of in that same context: “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen” (18:15). This Moses-like prophet is Jesus the Messiah (Acts 3:22; 7:37).

-Why consult the dead when we have the living, resurrected Messiah?
-Why turn to magical arts when we have the all-powerful name of God?

Heavenly Father, grant that we may keep your name holy by fearing and loving you, so that we do not curse, swear, use satanic arts, lie, or deceive by your name, but call upon it in every trouble, pray, praise, and give thanks (Small Catechism).

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Democrats will have some guy in an evening gown and sensible pumps talking about George Floyd and climate change at their convention.

I'll take this every single time:

[Karl Matt Button │ Apex Fitness Adv. @KarlApexFit]

Everyone on the planet must lift weights.

But most have no idea how to start.

After 16 years lifting here's the Top 9 Exercises to get you in the best shape of your life:

(Videos of each included)

1. Incline Dumbbell Curls - #1 Bicep Exercise on the Planet

=Thread=

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

It seems to me that there are two equally dangerous and false extremes that we can fall into about America.

One is that it is the new promised land, a utopia, God’s favorite nation on earth. This fosters a kind of religious nationalism that is both idolatrous and willfully dismissive of the many ways our country has failed.

The other extreme is a profound and debilitating modern hubris that defines our history not by its successes but its failures, that exhibits a rank ingratitude for the men and women who have, however imperfectly, worked and sacrificed so much to hand on to us a country where, by all objective standards, we live with more opportunities and privileges than any people have had in the history of the world.

Avoid extremes. Let us be thankful for what we have and be diligent to work toward improvement.

Happy 4th of July to you all!

[LocomotiveBreath @LocoBreath1]

@PastorBenMarsh Maybe people find you exceedingly sanctimonious.

[LocomotiveBreath @LocoBreath1]

@annbauerwriter Guys pointing out that another guys ball sack underwear looks comfy isn't really a thing in the locker room.

[LocomotiveBreath @LocoBreath1]

@birdchadlouis Growing up without a father, divorced, absent, was very difficult. Lost in the conversation, I think, is how does it go when you're now a father?

[LocomotiveBreath @LocoBreath1]

@MattSmethurst Good clip but does one not have to ask themselves how they 'feel' after watching it?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Karl Matt Button │ Apex Fitness Adv. @KarlApexFit]

Everyone on the planet must lift weights.

But most have no idea how to start.

After 16 years training here's the Top 8 Exercises to help get you in the best shape of your life:

(Videos of each included)

1. Incline Dumbbell Curls - #1 Bicep exercise on the planet

=Thread=

[LocomotiveBreath @LocoBreath1]

@ChrisHohnholz No idea what your goal is but you won't lose weight working with weights. If you're not satisfied perhaps take an honest look at your diet. Incorporate a good good cardio routine like jogging, biking, serious stair climbing. Drink a lot of water. 80-100oz is a good start.

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Today we remember that God washes our feet.

The fingers that crafted the universe scrub scum from between toes.

The hands that painted the cosmos wash feet painted with dirt and sweat.

The One before whom all angels bow gets on his knees to labor as a slave.

We become clean, he becomes filthy.

In doing this, Jesus our God gives us a humble epiphany, a revelation of who he is. He is the God who makes his glory visible in lowliness and servitude.

He is the God who gives
-his cheek to the betraying lips of Judas
-his face to the slapping hand of the high priest
-his countenance to the spit of the Sanhedrin.

He is the God who gives
-his head to the thorns
-his feet to the spikes
-his side to the spear.

He is the God who embraces rejection, shame, torture, and death, to give himself to you.

And here is why: because that’s who God is. He is the God who is love. Therefore he loves you by giving to you. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son. What he gives you is nothing less than himself.

God gives, you receive. This is everything.

He not only washes your feet; he washes you clean, body and soul, through the holy bath in his name. He fills the baptismal font with water from his spear-pierced side and kneels there to wash off the dirt and sweat and grime of your evil.

He feeds you himself, his body, his blood. Every natural food we take into our bodies is transformed into our bodies. We don't become corn on the cob or hamburgers. But the supper of our Lord is different. This food transforms you into that which it is. You, the church, are the body of Christ. You are what you eat.

So, come and eat. Come and drink. Come to the lowly God who has joined you in your lowliness that he might exalt you in himself.

On Maundy Thursday, let us recall, with thanksgiving, how fitting it all is:

How fitting that humanity, which plunged into death by eating forbidden fruit, should receive life and immortality by a meal provided by our Savior, the Last Adam.

How fitting that sinners, their unity rent asunder by hatred and violence, should be gathered into one communion by partaking of the one loaf, baked from many scattered grains.

How fitting that we, who are hard pressed and beaten down by evil, should be comforted and uplifted by drinking from the Lord’s cup, filled with the blood of grapes that have been trampled and pressed underfoot.

How divinely and beautifully fitting, on this holy Thursday, that we have our feet lovingly washed by the very God from whom we once ran in terror and shame.

Here is our God, Jesus Christ, who comes not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.