Jess Connell

Adventurer. Learner. Wife. Mom. Writer. Teacher. Christian. Political observer. Long-form book reviewer. Texan for liberty, free markets, & limited gov't.

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

This is such a good thing to know about ourselves (as well as others) --

if you bump a cup, and funky-smelling liquid sloshes out, it's because funky-smelling liquid was inside of it.

What is IN us is what will come out when we are bumped and prodded by the travails of life.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

When I was a boy, my mother told me to never forget these words. More than 50 years later, clearly I haven't: "There isn't anything that comes out of the mouth of a drunk that wasn't there in the first place."

We were at a family reunion, and an uncle had consumed too much alcohol and began saying sexually perverse things. Knowing the excuses that would follow, my mom took the opportunity to disciple us with street-level theology by sharing what the Lord said:

"The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” (Luke 6:45, ESV)

This may be difficult to accept, and it will require a humble and honest examination: You and I are more like my uncle than unlike him.

Maybe we have a little more decency and don't get drunk and speak perversion in public, but we do share three things in common:

Our hearts are not completely free from evil
We speak evil more regularly than we think
We blame that evil speech on outside triggers (annoying people, stressful situations, alcoholic beverages, etc)
Have you ever said, "I didn't mean what I said" after realizing you said something ungodly? The more biblical response would be to say, "Please forgive me for saying what I meant!"

You see, if we are going to understand our trouble with words and find a solution, we must begin with the heart. What we say with our loose lips reveals what we desire with our sinful hearts.

James 4:1 summarizes it best: "What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?"

Friends, it would be much easier to pick up a book entitled "101 Ways To Fix Your Talk," filled with strategies and techniques to help select and implement the right vocabulary. But that wouldn't solve any root issues.

That's why God wrote a better Book. It's the only Book that provides ultimate hope and lasting change. James says in this book, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil ... Purify your hearts." (4:7-8)

The gospel promises nothing less than a new heart, one that is no longer enslaved to the passions and desires of the sinful nature. And with that new heart comes good treasure, from which better words come.

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

Not ONE WORD about George Bush’s meeting with community members in the 11/22/1963 Tyler newspaper.

Great documentation by Corey Westmoreland:

https://t.co/cDTDXcpFH8

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

@garonnevik It's rotten in many ways.
the hair.
the too-loose movement and dancing.
the changing of Edward's backstory.
the Marianne-walks-herself-home...

Lots to not like TBH.

[Jared C. Wilson @jaredcwilson]

Just don’t plagiarize. It’s not hard to not do something. If you can’t write without copying somebody else’s work, don’t write. If you can’t preach without copying somebody else’s work, don’t preach. If you can’t get through school without lying about your work, drop out.

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

@bobby_on_mars @yashar 👆🏻💯

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

Socialism is great, until you run out of other people’s money.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

A Free Press reporter asks New Yorkers if socialism is good for America.

They all say yes.

Then she brings out Daniel Di Martino, who fled Venezuela, and they get a firsthand horror story they weren’t ready for.

NEW YORKER: “I think socialism is actually really good for society.”

DI MARTINO: “Are you familiar with how socialism worked out in other countries historically?”

NEW YORKER: “Just because it didn’t work out so well in other parts of the world doesn’t mean it won’t work out well for New York.”

Di Martino’s family lived through the promises these voters are buying.

DI MARTINO: “My family went from making $2,000 a month 20 years ago to $100 a month in 2016. That was because the government gave everything you can imagine for free.”

“We went from being a normal middle-class family with a car and then no electricity, no water.”

Asked if they support “government grocery stores,” the answer is just as confident.

NEW YORKER: “Of course I do.”

So Di Martino explains what grocery shopping looked like under socialism.

DI MARTINO: “There was very little supply of chicken, toilet paper. It was a line for blocks and blocks for a grocery store.”

NEW YORKER: “What happened in Venezuela isn’t going to happen here. The policy is more focused on helping people out.”

A man describes lines stretching for blocks just to buy chicken and toilet paper, and a Mamdani voter waves it away. Because THIS time, they’re sure it will work.

REPORTER: “You know, they have tried that in the Soviet Union from where my parents and my grandparents are from. All they remember of grocery stores is empty shelves.”

DI MARTINO: “The DSA went to Venezuela just last year to support the dictator and say that he won the election that he didn’t.”

NEW YORKER: “I had no idea. I did not know.”

DI MARTINO: “Government rent control. It’s going to stop people from renting apartments because they’re not going to be able to profit. There are going to be fewer apartments for rent.”

NEW YORKER: “That’s a good point. I agree with that. Okay. I understand more about socialism now for sure.”

Socialism always sounds good to people who’ve never had to live under it.

Those who have never want to live under it again.

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

This segment about how feminism has screwed women over and made them collectively UNhappier is spot on:

https://t.co/LBuHDbQFr1

The world is not currently honest with women about what choices actually yield a happy fulfilled life for women.

[TRIGGERnometry @triggerpod]

Or watch the full episode with @scrowder on YouTube
https://t.co/VuKZ8KrMf6

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

The Electoral College is why a farmer in Iowa matters as much as a banker in Manhattan.

Anybody trying to scrap it doesn't want a fairer system.

They want you to stop mattering.

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

@Not_the_Bee 🙃😳😬 what a joke California is.

[pagemasta @AdamPage85]

The difference in my life and many others is I have parents who are currently on their 5th time reading thru the Bible.

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

@Not_the_Bee How can anyone be this weird?

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

@BoardJfk Oh I see.

[The JFK Assassination Board ©️ 🇺🇲 🌎 @BoardJfk]

"The Right-Wing Plot To Kill JFK" is by Gil Jesus. The irony is that many of the "right-wing" of 1963 were Democrats of today. This is why the Democratic party has totally distanced themselves from JFK. They don't care. JFKassassinationboard JFK Rightwing
https://t.co/YJNlUDUOEH

[Ginny Gentles @GinnyGentles]

It's easy to blame vOuCHerS for K-12 budget woes. It's harder to have honest conversations about the birth dearth/demographic cliff, pension debt, and administrative bloat.

➡️ "[S]chool districts have been slow to cut costs by closing schools and reducing staff as their student populations shrink, putting some at risk for insolvency."

➡️ Public school enrollment has ⬇️ by 1.4 million since fall 2019.

➡️ Enrollment is "projected to ⬇️ by another 2.7 million students by the 2031–32 school year."

➡️ States have amassed $400 BILLION in teacher pension debt -- $9,300 in debt per public school student.

➡️ Half of public school employees are non-teaching staff.

@ASmithAZ proposes eight ed finance policies states and districts should consider. ⤵️

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

I asked Grok to compare Trump's net gains since taking office to two groups:

* his wealthy comparables/counterparts
* average Americans of his same age category

Turns out, in both instances he's worse off. 🤔
https://t.co/3CgS5mjB7G

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Dr. Ron Paul on his experience with abortion:

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

@lamps_apple What a mess.

Better to be a poor man or woman with a loving spouse and fidelity than any of this psycho mess.

[Anthony Bialy @AnthonyBialy]

100% of children want ice cream for dinner

[Jess Connell @_JessConnell]

@Matrimonified 😆😆😆😆

That's awesome. I love truthful kid observations. :)