Zak Flowers

Teacher, Angler, Pesto-Maker

[Dr. Michael F. Bird @mbird12]

Controversial thesis: If the highest paid person in your university or college is the basketball coach or the football coach, then it is not a university, it is a sporting franchise with a side hustle in tertiary education.

[Raymond Chang @tweetraychang]

This is NOT to say we shouldn’t cherish the “freedoms” we have and use them for the flourishing for others. However, to insist on our own freedoms as if our freedom is the highest aim completely neglects almost everything you see in the Bible.

[Raymond Chang @tweetraychang]

The insistence on personal rights and freedom can be found nowhere in Scripture. At best, what we are called to do is fight for conditions that lead to the flourishing of others. What’s remarkable is that the obsession of personal rights & freedoms has been conflated with faith.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

I’m not against addressing mental health issues.

I’m against scapegoating mental health issues in order to justify not taking steps toward common-sense gun control.

We can do both.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

I've been reading and stewing on the #SBC report for the last couple of days and I can't stop thinking about this quote from @KSPrior:

"Worse than wolves disguised as sheep are the ones disguised as shepherds."

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Being a Christian isn’t about intellectually assenting to a set of doctrines.

It is a way of life marked by sacrificial love and service.

Jesus didn't say, "This is the truth. Follow it.”

He said, "I am the truth. Follow me. Love one another as I have loved you."

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

For far too long in the church, sexism has been baptized and called God’s will.

Enough is enough.

The whole Bible is filled with women who preach, pastor and lead. And even in the midst of deeply patriarchal cultures, Jesus and the early church elevated and empowered women.

[Maggie Burns @maggiejean11]

Subtle sexism in the church is: male mentors and advisors, while meeting with younger men, saying they "advocate for women to preach" while at the same time making jokes about female voices putting them to sleep.

[Zak Flowers @ZakFlowers]

"The snooker has become the snorked," might be the best TV line written. #parksandrec

[Zak Flowers @ZakFlowers]

Is it just me, or do parents' homes have the Cadillac of toilet paper? My stuff isn't bad, but when I go back home my bum feels like royalty!

[Zak Flowers @ZakFlowers]

@maggiejean11 Reason #1 to share a Spotify account with your boyfriend: Your Spotify Wrapped will be full of sea shanties! @maggiejean11

[Zak Flowers @ZakFlowers]

In today's episode of "Teaching with Mr. Flowers," I changed the lyrics of TLC's "Waterfalls" and sang "don't go chasing tor-na-dos" because a student said that was her favorite type of weather.

[Karl Vaters @KarlVaters]

As a Christian and a church leader, if I don’t understand the heart of someone who is deconstructing their faith, I have an obligation to try to understand them, not dismiss them.

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[J.R.R. Dodson @jrrdodson]

I love that it’s a woman who anoints Jesus as king: and that the disciples don’t even get it. (Mark 14)

[Kaitlyn Schiess @KaitlynSchiess]

When we tell people in the church, “we believe the Bible, and they don’t" about areas of legitimate Christian disagreement, we’re not only misrepresenting opposing views, we're leaving people without hermeneutical and methodological tools for thinking about Scripture. That's bad.

[Zak Flowers @ZakFlowers]

@Kevin__Penfold You want BOTH SIDES toasted?!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Let's be clear. The legislation passed in Georgia is voter suppression. The Senate must quickly take up the voting rights bills passed by the House of Representatives. If we are serious about calling ourselves a democracy, we must make it easier for people to vote – not harder.

[Scot McKnight @scotmcknight]

Must read: What Evangelicals Haven’t Been Taught….about Paul | Beth Allison Barr https://t.co/iYW4vy2DpG