Harold Altamirano

Follower of Jesus. Husband of an amazing woman. Father of 2 princesses. Runner. Hiker. Thinker. Servant.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

The entire Book of Revelation is a giant chiasm. 🤯

A chiasm is a literary device where ideas unfold in order (A B C) and then repeat in reverse (C B A), forming an X shaped symmetry that aids memory and draws attention to the central point (C).

The Bible is amazing.

[Brian Drinkwine @briandrinkwine]

You’ve chased freedom with no rules, no limits — and still felt empty.

What if real freedom means going second?
Choosing love over ego.
Humility over control.

Maybe freedom isn’t escaping everything…
but giving yourself to something real.
Maybe even Jesus — the real one.

[J.C. Ryle @JCRyle]

https://t.co/KvCCpzybwX

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

Most atheists claim you don’t need God for objective morality.
But some think more deeply about it—like atheist philosopher Joel Marks.

Here’s what he said in Confessions of an Ex-Moralist:

“I had thought I was a secularist because I conceived of right and wrong as standing on their own two feet, without prop or crutch from God. We should do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, period. But this was a God too. It was the Godless God of secular morality, which commanded without commander—whose ways were thus even more mysterious than the God I did not believe in, who at least had the intelligible motive of rewarding us for doing what He wanted.

And yet I knew in my soul, with all of my conviction, with a passion, that [some things] were wrong, wrong, wrong. I knew this with more certainty than I knew that the earth is round. But suddenly I knew it no more. I was not merely skeptical or agnostic about it; I had come to believe, and do still, that these things are not wrong. But neither are they right; nor are they permissible. The entire set of moral attributions is out the window. 

My outlook has therefore become more practical: I desire to influence the world in such a way that my desires have a greater likelihood of being realized.”

[Mason Craig @MasonSCraig]

"Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys, but it does not adore."

– Geerhardus Vos

[Jonathan Dodson @Jonathan_Dodson]

“In Christ two natures met to be your cure.”

- George Herbert

[Stand to Reason @STRtweets]

“Everything good can be attributed to God, because of the way God made the world. Everything bad, in the sense of moral evil, is a result of man’s actions.” — Greg Koukl

[Ari Lamm @AriLamm]

Why Read The Bible In Hebrew?

Well, remember when God gets angry at Sarah for laughing when she hears that God will grant her a child?

What exactly did Sarah do wrong?!

A thread (for non-Hebrew readers too!) 🧵 1

[Javier Milei @JMilei]

Los insultos del Dictador Maduro para mí son halagos. Casualmente repitiendo los mismos agravios de muchos “periodistas” bienpensantes de la Argentina cuya posición endeble permite que las atrocidades de Maduro sean legitimadas.

Ni él se cree la estafa electoral que festeja. La República Argentina tampoco.

No reconocemos el fraude, llamamos a la comunidad internacional a unirse para restaurar el Estado de Derecho en Venezuela, y le recordamos al pueblo venezolano que las puertas de nuestra Patria están abiertas para todo hombre que elija vivir en libertad.

VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

“What does that Bible verse mean to YOU?” is a very problematic question. But I’ve seen well-intentioned people ask it in small groups many times.

It tends to disregard what the verse actually means and cause us to skip proper interpretation while jumping straight to application. This frequently causes a number of problems. Such as missing the right application, since you didn’t understand the text in the first place. Since this method is so incredibly subjective it tends to result in people making up applications and “truths” which are simply not based on Scripture to start with; leading to errors both minor and major.

The small upside of “what does it mean to YOU?” is that it tends to give people a sense of empowerment in Bible study and invites them to participate without as much fear of judgment or a negative evaluation from others. Of course, this upside isn’t worth the downsides of twisting Scripture and missing its meaning. A bit of humility can also remove the fear of other people not thinking your ideas are great. And humility doesn’t come with those downsides.

Find out what it means, not what it means to you.

[Harold Altamirano @PrHarold]

Wooowwww

[Silvio José Báez @silviojbaez]

#Nicaragua. ¡Sheynnis Palacios, Miss Universo 2023, muchas felicidades! ¡Gracias por hacer brillar en tu belleza el nombre de nuestra patria! ¡Gracias por llevar alegría a nuestro sufrido pueblo! ¡Gracias por hacernos tener esperanza en un futuro más hermoso para nuestro país!

[Anthony WagenerSmith @wagenersmith]

Too many Christians want a sage on the stage when what they really need is a guide on the side.

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Give me sermons that end not with a law question, “What will you now do for God?” but a Gospel declaration, “This is what Jesus has done for you.”

[Max Lucado @MaxLucado]

I confessed my hypocrisy to our elders, and they did what good pastors do. They covered me with prayer and designed a plan to help me cope with demands. I admitted my struggle to the congregation and in doing so activated a dozen or so conversations with members who battled the same temptation: https://t.co/5vSFRd385E

[Nick O'Brien @nickmobrien]

The way I read the Bible has been transformed by @bibleproject

Here are their 7 pillars for reading the Bible the way it was intended - as a unified story that leads to Jesus

🧵 The Bible is…

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

The Audacity of Calling God “Father”

If I call God “God” I speak truthfully.
If I call God “Lord” I speak submissively.
If I call God “King” I speak servilely.

But if I dare to call God “my Father,” I speak with a brassy audacity, chutzpah, that is shockingly familiar and intimate. So it seems anyway.

You dare to call the Master of the Universe “Father”?
You dare to call the One who controls heaven and hell “Father”?
You call the Omnipotent one “Father”?

Who do you think you are?

It is difficult to imagine a more audacious act than to stand before the Creator of the world and to name him “Father.” And mean it. And not only to mean it, but to act and speak as a child acts and speaks before a loving and doting Dad.

It’s shocking. It’s exhilarating.
And it’s beautiful beyond words.

But here’s a secret: it’s not really chutzpah. It’s not some brassy boldness that we work ourselves into, nor it is gained by swallowing a bottle of liquid spiritual courage, as it were.

To call God “Father” is simply to live in the space which Jesus created. To move from residing far from God as his enemy; or on the other side of town from him as a stranger; or down the street as an acquaintance; or in an adjoining house as a servant; and to move into our own bedroom as a child in his family. To wake up in the morning and see our Father sipping a cup of coffee and saying, “Good morning, my child,” as we respond, “Good morning, Father.”

You see, when we live in this house, when we move into the room built by Jesus, we inhabit the home not merely of a Master or Lord or King, but the one who’s given us his name and made us his own, now and forever.

“Our Father”: two of the most amazing words ever uttered.

[Ty Gibson @tyfgibson]

ON GETTING OUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT
AT THE END OF THE WORLD

“The end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. And above all things have fervent love for one another” (1Peter 4:7-8).

When Peter contemplates the end of the world, he immediately insists that the most important thing—“above all things”—is that we “have fervent love for one another.”

Why is that?

Why is love the most vital factor for end-time people?

Well, because the end of the world will be characterized by “the love of many” growing “cold,” by “hate” and “war,” by people becoming “lovers of themselves, lovers of money,” and “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” (Matthew 24:6-12; 2 Timothy 3:1-4). Selfishness and hate will be perfected into ugly end-time art.

The end of the world is all about love vs hate!

If there is one thing we need to prioritize “above all things” it is to cultivate the love of God in our hearts and in the way we relate to one another.

Only lovers will survive the end-time events of human history. Everybody else will go down in a red hot conflagration hate and selfishness.

[Harold Altamirano @PrHarold]

Love this @BLYC

[Harold Altamirano @PrHarold]

Love empowers, fear controls!

[Harold Altamirano @PrHarold]

How in the world??? T cop and the employee are so ignorant, rude and deserve to be fired

[David Begnaud @DavidBegnaud]

Here’s the police body cam video showing what happened when a @Hertz worker at the New Orleans airport called police because a Puerto Rican man kept insisting that his drivers license was valid. The Hertz worker denied the man his pre paid rental car because he couldn’t present his passport. The Hertz worker thought Puerto Rico was another country and so she insisted the man needed to show a passport. He didn’t. He is a U.S. citizen as are all Puerto Ricans.

This body cam video was first obtained by @FOX8NOLA.

You can judge for yourself the unidentified @KennerPolice officers demeanor / behavior. Marchand found it to be extremely rude and demeaning.

As for the Hertz worker, she seen on video saying to the customer, Humberto Marchand:
“Because you recorded as you’re not gonna be able to rent from Hertz ever!”

That’s not true. Hertz has already apologized to Mr. Marchand publicly and stated that the employees were wrong and will be retained.

It is clear that neither the officer, nor the Hertz employee, know that Marchand is right: his driver’s license is as valid as any other license issued in any other state. He didn’t need to show a passport to anyone. The officer could’ve provided clarity to the situation based on the fact that Puerto Rico is not a foreign country. He did not or was unaware of that fact.

In my initial report, I stated that Marchand heard the officer say that he would call border authorities. The body cam video does not show that.

As @FOX8NOLA’s @news_fuentes reported, the officer said: “Do not come back up here and cause any more disturbances.”
In the body camera video, Marchand asks, “You’re going to call what? Border services?”