Sam Aupperlee

Currently “Digging”

[Sam Aupperlee @Samaupp]

“Why should my heart grow weary? Don’t be so down cast oh my soul...you are in every moment, you are my greatest miracle. “

[IV @isaiahkvelez]

#SpiderMan was literally everything we asked for.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

I’ve heard stories of people leaving mega churches because their pastor is “preaching social justice over the gospel.”

This makes me wonder how many predominantly white mega churches would be mega in size if they consistently preached a gospel that reflected justice.

[Beytwicé @lotoysrus]

Why y’all keep asking where the police at? Y’all ask where Miley’s at when Hannah’s on stage?

[𝐎. 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 @TheAlanNoble]

Never ever again try to tell me that only policy, not character matters in our political leaders. Ever.

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

They told me “God loves all” then they filled their altars excusing America’s racism.

They told me to “preach the gospel” then they joined in on the xenophobia against Muslim and Mexican.

Trumpism isn’t destroying evangelicalism, it’s exposing it.

Time to flip the tables.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I do not believe these are days for mincing words. I’m 63 1/2 years old & I have never seen anything in these United States of America I found more astonishingly seductive & dangerous to the saints of God than Trumpism. This Christian nationalism is not of God. Move back from it.

[Uncle Cracker @cfaherty10]

Holy shit. If Rudolph has to wear a mask then according to the CDC it has to go over his nose which will make it hard for Santa to see. Covid literally is the worst

[Sam Aupperlee @Samaupp]

🗣🗣 🔥

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

In the same way Paul was an apostle to the Gentiles, the Church needs apostles to the “American Christians” who are steeped in idol worship, nationalism, racism, sexism, and the like.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

Chris Wallace is every teacher on Zoom these days.

#Debates2020

[Bob Goff @bobgoff]

You are not the average of the five most insecure people who have an opinion about your life.

[Sam Aupperlee @Samaupp]

Not one or the other BUT “both”
Not black or white BUT grey

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

The same bible that tells us to "rejoice always" has a book called Lamentations. We don’t have to choose one from the other.

Good, healthy Christian faith is non-dualistic, able to hold multiple tensions together.

[Prop @prophiphop]

So, no one except @chadwickboseman immediate family knew he had cancer? Not even the co stars? In if his co-stars knew, In this age of social media and paparazzi, the fact it never got out is a testament to the character of this man and the respect his peers had for him.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

White Supremacy is fundamentally not about KKK and hoods. That’s too obvious.

It's the noxious, insidious and (un)conscious ways that White experience, perspective, and power is prioritized, normalized, internalized, and systematized.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

The police brutality we see on videos against Black and Brown people are not simply "isolated events."

They are isolated *documentation* of a pervasive, age-old problem in this country.

#JacobBlake

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

Civil religion that uses God’s name to further political power is more of a threat to the gospel than atheism because it offers a form of godliness but is hollow on the inside.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

It’s a theologically accurate statement to say that we are all sinners.

It’s a sociologically inaccurate statement to say that our sin has equally perpetuated injustice in the world.

This is why a theological truth can undermine social healing. We lump everyone together.

[stevenfurtick @stevenfurtick]

How you process disappointment determines whether faith propels you or fear paralyzes you.

[Raymond Chang @tweetraychang]

What if young people are leaving so called gospel-centered churches, NOT because they are drawn away by the world, but because they are not drawn in by the preaching of a diluted gospel message that has nothing meaningful to say to the brokenness we see in the world?

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

Much of church/family crises and splits occur because people don’t have an environment or culture that normalizes conflict, nor equips people to have difficult conversations.

We often talk to everyone about the problem except the person we need to speak to.