I often say that I’ve always been a pastor of my community, not just my congregation. For San Marco, I know some of that will be working to restore relationships in the community. I’m here for it for the long haul, as is SJPC.
@wdylsmith@redeemed_zoomer Or - and hear me out here - you can be fiscally conservative and not play culture games with sexuality and still be conservative.
Let “war of choice” sit with you for a moment. Because last I knew, the allegiance isn’t with the nation, it’s with the Savior. And death is no commodity.
I wonder if God looks at all of y’all in your big boy power eras and just thinks “you are David with an algorithm.” Not that I got a direct line, but I do. Sweet summer children.
I am so tired of folks claiming Jesus Christ as if it was venture capital. God will cut your shit down and your spiritual balance sheet will BEG for universalism.
Why you keep losing things — AirTags, 'refrigerator blindness' and the invisible gorilla experiment. Maybe Advent can offer us a way to find what we're looking for?
The religious world is built on transactions: give, serve, stay, and get proof that you matter. But Jesus unveils what cannot carry God’s future. Resurrection can’t grow in transactional soil. #Faith#Resurrection
In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.