Mark Johnson 🚴

Follower of Jesus. Cycling: road and off road 🚴‍♂️ Insta: marksupdates

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Watch my banned interview with Jimmy Kimmel on YouTube: https://t.co/1mL7C7579o

[Mark Johnson 🚴 @MarksUpdates]

@SouthwestAir delayed our flight that makes us miss our connection.
Stranded in Chicago MDW and can’t get to Dallas LUV. No help on SWA app and hold time me with customer service is 45 mins.
#southwestairlines #southwestair #swa

[Mark Johnson 🚴 @MarksUpdates]

The grifter-in-chief has brought corruption and cruelty to a new level. Profiting from ICE prisons…

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Trump’s brokers have made 29 trades of private prison stocks since he returned to office—totaling between $281,029 and $990,000.

The trades are split between two companies that have benefited massively from Trump admin policy: GEO Group and CoreCivic. https://t.co/96jLShRX3Q

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

The problem isn't the single mom getting $6 a day in food stamps.

The problem is Jeff Bezos, worth $269 billion, more than doubled his wealth since 2020 while paying wages so low the number of Amazon workers on food stamps & Medicaid nearly tripled.

Bezos is the welfare queen.

[Warren @swd2]

It’s always worth reminding people that a jury of his peers determined Trump forced his finger inside E. Jean Carroll. If it was his penis it would’ve been rape. She couldn’t be certain so they defaulted to a finger which for some reason isn’t rape.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

A reminder that a jury of ordinary Americans, after a fully litigated trial, found trump had sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: A federal judge in New York has ordered President Trump to pay a $5 million judgment plus almost $800,000 in interest owed to E. Jean Carroll after a jury held him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. https://t.co/jyD7DF3EH0

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[Freedom Forum @1stForAll]

A judge has ruled that a Washington, DC group's protest signage referencing allegations against Trump was not legally obscene and that its "8647" flag did not constitute a true threat or incitement of violence.

Here's what the judge said and how the First Amendment applies.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

REP HUFFMAN: “The CEO of Trump’s Freedom 250 flew to Davos, stood in front of a room full of foreign governments and asked them ‘how they wanted to shape America’s birthday’. Then they stole hundreds of millions and committed wire fraud.”

Holy shit.

[Rep. Jared Huffman @RepHuffman]

Every American should be outraged by what Trump has done to our nation's 250th birthday celebration. What should have been a once-in-a-generation moment to unite the country has been turned into another vehicle for division, propaganda, and political gain.

We uncovered how he hijacked America 250 – watch to see how.

[Tiffany Thigpen @ThigpenTiffany]

Jack Graham Calls SBC Abuse Crisis a 'Reckless Hoax' Days Before Annual Meeting https://t.co/zcqQl4AMIo

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Since 2000, over 380 Southern Baptist leaders have been convicted of sex crimes involving more than 700 victims all while SBC leaders covered for abusers and silenced survivors.

But women preaching and pastoring is the real problem? What a joke.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Here's the full chain of events that led to Trump storming out of his interview with Kristin Welker, beginning with her pressing him on the weaponization fund, continuing with her pointing out the baselessness of his "rigged election" lies, and concluding with him calling her "crooked or stupid" and leaving

[Dwight McKissic @pastordmack]

Why Cornerstone Church Will Continue To Partner With Women To Preach To The Gathered Assembly, Regardless of the Outcome of The Mohler Amendment!!!!

1. Joel and Peter prophesied that women would “prophesy” in the last days(Joel 2: 28; Acts 2: 17).
2. Phillip’s four daughters served the church as prophetess(Acts 21: 7-9).
3. Paul empowered women to prophesy in gathered assemblies(1 Corinthians 11: 4, 5).
4. Paul empowered Phoebe to address the gathered assembly, and told the men to show her hospitality, and to do whatever she asked them to do(Romans 16: 1, 2).
5. Paul affirmed Junia as an apostle(Romans 16: 7). Gifts are given without regard to gender(Eph. 4: 11, 12; 1 Corinthians 12).
6. Paul named Euoida and Syntecche as having “contended at my side in the cause of the gospel”(Phillipians 4: 2, 3). Paul also affirmed Nympha and the church in her house(Colossians 4).
7. Paul listed Priscilla’s name before Aquilla in Romans 16: 2, and acknowledged “the church that meets at their house.”

The only question remaining for me is, if the Mohler Amendment is ratified on its second reading, shall I await the disfellowship vote(which I will not appeal or contest)? Why would I await a vote to be disfellowshipped?

History would record that Cornerstone Church stood up for the word of God, and women who proclaimed his word. We’d rather not be disfellowshipped, but the tradition that I hail from suggests martyrdom leaves a mark in history for ancestors to track your trail, that they may be inspired to stand up for the truth of God’s word and his righteousness.

My only regret with regard to my time in the SBC is not allowing the SBC to disfellowship our church because of our continuationist theology, as Paige Patterson/& certain SWBTS trustees were once recommending. The IMB later abandoned their biblically indefensible cessationist policies forbidding their missionaries from praying according to the dictates of their conscience in private.

God may be giving Cornerstone a second opportunity to allow the SBC to disfellowship us, because we partner with Junia, Phoebe, Anna, Phillip’s four daughters and Lottie Moon, in empowering women to address the gathered assembly.

It took ten years for the SBC to correct the error of their ways in restricting the missionaries private prayers. Don’t know how long it will take them to get this women in ministry issue right. I may be in my grave when it happens, but I lean towards leaving a witness that every church didn’t follow Mohler off this cliff. Some churches stood up for biblical righteousness and examples, and were willing to pay the price of disfellowship in doing so.

[ChurchLeaders.com @ChurchLead]

"You have beaten the drum loudly about what women in SBC churches cannot do. So, what CAN they do?" Beth Moore is challenging SBC leadership directly, and she says she'll fight for Southern Baptist women "to the death." https://t.co/aWDppG17rH

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Those in the SBC who think I no longer should have anything to say about the SBC profoundly underestimate the power of love. I’d served southern Baptist women for 40 years by the time I left. And when I left, I left directly on their behalf because it became disturbingly clear to me that the SBC as an entity was more interested in protecting shepherds than the sheep entrusted to their care. When protecting the pulpit from women becomes a far greater priority than protecting women (& children) from an abusive pulpit, something is wrong. Which has been the greater problem: women trying to become your senior pastors or pastors misusing or abusing women?

My biggest concern is that what happened with the CRT witch-hunt will happen now in regard to women. The overreach resulted in numerous pastors, teachers and professors dropping the immensely important biblical teachings against racism rather than risk being accused of CRT. I heard from pastors at that time who preached against racism and already had emails Monday morning from people in their congregation accusing them of CRT. Because the difference wasn’t clarified, they lumped all of it into the one category. The aim became: shut every mouth to shut some mouths.

I pled for SBC seminary presidents and leaders to please clarify to pastors and teachers and, thereby, to congregations & students what qualified as CRT and what indeed was the proper and deeply rooted and needed biblical approach to anti-gospel racism.

Crickets.

I see the same potential here. I have never once fought for SBC women to take over church pulpits. I have esteemed and supported the role of male senior pastors. My own pastors would tell you that. If you think I was in the SBC trying to lead a revolution against men, you are clearly not familiar with my materials. What I believed then and believe now is that God has called both men and women to serve their churches and communities and proclaim the gospel. He has poured out his Holy Spirit on men AND on women, calling them to broadcast the good news.

You have beaten the drum loudly about what women in SBC churches cannot do. So, what CAN they do? Clarity here is essential. What is a woman to do who has been gifted BY GOD to teach the Bible, especially if her church has moved to the community group model and there is no Sunday school to teach?

Here is what I see on the horizon. If you leave these matters involving women so vague that it becomes about pastoral roles/actions rather than the title of pastor, it will shift to the subjective rather than objective. I wish I was naïve enough to think that wasn’t the point to some of these leaders but, sadly, I’m not.

What if that senior pastor doesn’t allow a woman on the prayer team to pray over people at the end of the service because he deems she is acting pastorally? What if the pastor sees that a woman’s Sunday school class of WOMEN is getting, in his estimation, a little too big? Can he just decide she acting pastorally and remove her from the role? Can she counsel people with her God-given wisdom and knowledge or would she be acting pastorally? The examples could go on and on. And, of course, I realize many would not use their positions to disesteem women but surely you and I both know countless others would. God only knows how many unqualified, unloving, mean-spirited men are in pastoral positions but the obsession remains the women.

I have no desire to see SBC women leave the denomination. I loved and flourished in that denomination. I want them to be able to flourish in their spiritual gifts. I want them to be esteemed in their serving inside and outside their homes. I want them to be able to serve Jesus and proclaim his glorious gospel.

I know I’m going to get hit here. That’s fine. But you should know I will fight for them to the death. Because I love them. And, yes, whether they love me or not.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @WhiteHouse: WHY IS THE STRAIGHT OF HORMUZ STILL CLOSED, JACKING UP GAS PRICES ON AMERICANS?

[Rep. Ted Lieu @RepTedLieu]

Kash Patel should be seeking help and treatment, not serving as FBI Director.