Benjamin Carlson

Lorship weader©, nerd, and occasional know-it-all

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

@AgresiveViper @teabug123 @christopheryuan @jonathanparnell @citieschurch Or potentially worthwhile. Which is an awful thing to consider.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Very important

[Shane Pruitt @shane_pruitt78]

We’re not told to tolerate sin, affirm sin, celebrate sin, or normalize sin.

We’re told to repent of sin.

[Oliver Burdick @oliverburdick]

Amen.

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

@calvinrobinson Another moment of staving off evil while we wait for God’s return.

[Christopher Yuan @christopheryuan]

We were made to desire God, but sin rewired our hearts to chase lesser things. Like a compass pulled off course, we often long for creation more than the Creator. But misplaced desires don’t have to define us—God calls us back to Himself.

#Desires #Sin #Temptation #GOD

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

We cannot be embarrassed by the truth of God’s Word, as though we’re the gatekeepers of the Spirit’s message. When we censor God, we cease to be the Bride.

Godly compassion requires the truth. If you hide God out of fear, you’re probably actually denying Him.

Matthew 10:33

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

One of the major problems with the modern Protestant Church (at least in the West) is that they don’t preach what they claim is true.

Does your church preach on the Spirit? Life? Holy sexuality?

Is your pastor embarrassed to publicly admit convictions that some call political?

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

Solution: expand your Beliefs page beyond bland Christianity (you’d BETTER believe Jesus is the Godman; tell me something I don’t know), and link to your sermons on those subjects. This holds churches and pastors accountable to actually preaching by what they claim is true.

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

#CCM #Twitter #TheOffice #MarkLowry #MichaelWSmith

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

This is 100% true. School was great and helped me with a lot of things, but so much of learning to lead people in ministry came afterward.

[Biblical Leadership @biblicalleader]

Leadership can't fully be taught in a classroom ✏️

Many leadership lessons must be learned on the field, and that process is often messy.

Leadership would be much easier if everything were black and white, but it rarely is.

Straightforward enough.

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

This is where Ayn Rand got it wrong. She may have been well-intentioned, but our lives can’t be swallowed up in our own self-interest. We care both for ourselves (honoring God’s image in us) and for others (recognizing God’s larger world and reflecting Christ).

She missed God.

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

@thechosentv My small group is watching through season 3 together and are just a few episodes away from finishing it, and I saw something in episode 6 that I didn’t notice the first time around.

Was that an intentional Gen 3:16 reference with the shaker and Pilate’s armband?

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

2/2
(It populated on another machine briefly but disappeared again, but this time it seems to be stable).

So it’s functioning now, and despite the empty clip oversight, I don’t know if it might stop populating again later. :(

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

@TobiasErichsen Emergency help, if you can this afternoon!

I’ve used LoopMIDI and rtpMIDI for a a long time now at my church, but something just broke, and I can’t send lighting controls anymore.

RtpMIDI on laptop neither displays on nor populates a local peer list.

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

1/2
UPDATE:

It’s partially resolved. The command I was testing with was an empty MIDI clip (oops), so of course it wasn’t going to trigger anything remotely. Der.

And the peer list is now populating properly. I don’t know why the change, but it seems to be staying this time

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

@WorshipLeader, I would love to hear from you on whether this is true and whether you’re attacking ministries over their use of the HIGHLY GENERIC PHRASE “Worship Leader” in radically different branding contexts from yours.

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

Just discovered this guy. And it wasn’t bc his content is so awesome (it is) but bc of a post about his Instagram video sayin that @WorshipLeader has TMd the phrase and is getting his social media accounts removed for TM violations.

If that’s true, WL and their mag just lost me.

[rogueworshipleader @roguewshpleader]

Worship leaders tossing songs out of their rotation cause they came out over two years ago

[Benjamin Carlson @BenTheCarlson]

I seriously hope this is his prank or a big misunderstanding, because if it’s true, they’ve just betrayed the entire purpose and spirit of the Kingdom.

You cannot trademark a phrase used for doing God’s work and use that secular leverage to destroy real ministry, jokes or no.