Blake Henry

[alex medina @mrmedina]

1977 Christianity Today interview with Jesse Jackson.

(via @visionnehemiah)

[Blake Henry @blakehenry13]

@Chiles_MRT I miss you too! I hope you and your mom are doing great and hope you have a great 2020! 😊

[Blake Henry @blakehenry13]

@WhiteHouse @karijobe @codycarnes Just curious how is separating families at the border, continually making racist and sexist statements, calling a city “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and calling Haiti and African nations “shithole countries” anyway caring about the marginalized? Or following Jesus?

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

Jesus loved children.
Blessed children.
Healed children.
Identified with children.
Highlighted their attributes.
Warned us not to hurt them.
And called them the owners of the Kingdom.

The way America is treating at the border is Anti-Christ.

It must stop, in Jesus name.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

In our minds holiness is usually about what we abstain from.

But Jesus saw holiness as what you give yourself to. Namely, mercy, love & hospitality.

In the end, the holiest people are the ones who love well.

[Jarrod McKenna @jarrodmckenna]

We desperately need a way of celebrating each other before we die.

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

Privilege will deceive you.

It will minimize the pain of others.

It will tell you that your opinion is more important than their humanity.

It will make you feel righteous while you oppress and marginalize.

And it will lie to you about how God sees your privilege.

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

God is close to the humble.

Not the theologically perfect.
Not the well versed.
Not the “woke”.

The humble.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

White Supremacy is to be confronted by denouncing its presence, followed by unapologetic solidarity with the objects of its wrath.

The gospel is at work in us when we do both of these things.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

After shouts of Hosanna, Jesus enters the temple & clears out those who have used religion to exploit people.

He then welcomes the blind & lame in the temple & heals them.

Holy Week reminds us that Jesus has a furious & passionate love for those the world has little regard for.

[Kyle Korver @KyleKorver]

I've been trying to write this for a while. https://t.co/Qkt8aoVtdE

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

Easter is about listening to women preach the resurrection.

Easter is about switching the sword for the cross.

Easter is about rejecting the ways of empire for sacrifice and humility.

Easter is about paradise for the rejected and power for the lowly.

Easter is hope.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

In John 20, Jesus walks into the room & shows Thomas his wounds. In the process, Thomas comes to faith.

The church can win over a doubting world, but not by coercion, gifts, impressive programming, etc.

One of the ways we can win over a doubting world is through vulnerability.

[Jarrod McKenna @jarrodmckenna]

Context is everything right...

“Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”

Mercy and pardon are “God’s ways”

[Jarrod McKenna @jarrodmckenna]

How have you heard this (mis)quoted?

“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

In what context?
To what effect?
How do you think most people hear it?
What is this “higher” way & thought?

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

If a church can buy the pastor a new iPad, it can pay the babysitters for a single mom.

If a church can spend 10k on a new sound system, it can spend 10k on a community garden in the inner city.

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

"We don’t have a shortage of preachers who can preach with the best of them; we have a shortage of preachers who are in tune with the least of them. . . . Our theology must get low."

@stewartdantec