Allen McKelvey

[Allen McKelvey @bugmanallen]

@SullenSerf LSU. That will make Texas a 3 loss team. Tennessee and Bama will be the only 2 loss teams. Of course Georgia has 1 loss.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

The gospel doesn’t ask you to clean up first, it cleans you.

The lie that kept me away longest: I have to get right before I can come to God. Fix myself, then approach.

But look at how Jesus operated. He touched the leper, and the uncleanness didn’t spread to Jesus; the cleanness spread to the leper. Mark 1:41-42.

He let a sinful woman wash His feet with her tears while the religious recoiled, and He said,

“Her sins, which are many, are forgiven.” Luke 7:47-48.

The prodigal came home filthy, rehearsing his apology, and “while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and ran and embraced him” before a word of the speech. Luke 15:20.

You don’t clean up to come home. You come home, and He cleans you.

“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” Isaiah 1:18.

He doesn’t say “make yourself white, then come.”

He says “come, and I’ll make you white.”

I wasted years trying to be presentable to a God already running toward me.

Come as you are. He’s not afraid of your mess. He came for it.

[Larry Sanger @lsanger]

This is amazing work: the ultimate Biblical/world history timeline website?
https://t.co/xNuSuj9pAB

[Tennessee Athletics @Vol_Sports]

SHARKS WITH FREAKIN LASER BEAMS ATTACHED TO THEIR FREAKIN HEADS 🦈

[Houston Kress @VolRumorMill]

This hit my age bracket perfectly.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Our likeness to Christ also matures in the midst of difficulties, such as when work seems fruitless, when our strength wanes or when we must start anew. Eventually endurance leaves its mark. Over the years, a gaze can become more merciful, hands more willing to serve and words more capable of comforting. May trials always find us united to Jesus, so that they may help us to grow in His love. #ApostolicJourney #Uruguay

[Jose Maria Mayoral @josemarimayoral]

Impresionante discurso del Papa León XIV esta noche en Montevideo en la Vigilia de oración en el Estadio Centenario. De esos que merece la pena leer completos, guardar y meditar. Algunas frases extraordinarias:

«Dios escogió Belén, y esa elección basta para que no identifiquemos pequeñez con insignificancia».

«La vida se llena de ocupaciones, afectos, proyectos y distracciones, hasta que la ausencia de Dios deja de sentirse como ausencia».

«Cuando se pretende construir un mundo sin Dios, se corre el riesgo de dejar también al hombre sin lugar».

«¡No le teman al “para siempre”! Matrimonios, abran su casa a la vida, incluso cuando el mundo les diga que un hijo es una carga».

«Cuando ser justo y honrado tenga un precio, páguenlo. Cuando perdonar parezca una derrota, perdonen».

«Necesitamos custodiar a Cristo en el centro de nuestra vida mediante la oración, la Misa, la Confesión y la lectura meditada del Evangelio. Todos hemos de volver una y otra vez a ser discípulos».

«Para iluminar mucho no hace falta ser muchos, sino reflejar la luz del Señor».

«¡Sean santos! No se conformen con una vida simplemente correcta ni con una fe de costumbre que se contente con lo indispensable. No le den a Dios solamente una parte de ustedes, ¡dense por completo!».

«Cristo no nos llamó a la mediocridad, nos llamó a una vida nueva y plena como la suya».

Y una frase preciosa para terminar:

«¡Que se note que hemos estado en Belén! Que se note que Cristo vive y que encontrarse con Él hace la diferencia».

Qué maravilla de discurso. Qué claridad para hablar de las exigencias de la vida cristiana y qué manera de recordar que la fe no consiste simplemente en ser buenas personas, sino en entregarse por completo a Jesucristo.

https://t.co/xIncXnVERT

#PapaEnUruguay #ViajeApostolico

[Tennessee Football @Vol_Football]

"I'm not a vegetarian. I love my stakes big." 😮‍💨

GAME BALL, COACH INGE.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

As somebody who read it in the Quran and is now Ex-Muslim, I knew that Jesus was coming back.

Surah 43:61 says that Jesus is a sign of the hour, as in the end, the day of judgment.

And even when I was Muslim, I had this deep conviction like, yo, if He’s alive and if He’s coming back, I gotta know who He is and actually know Him.

Because the more I read the Bible trying to disprove it, the more I saw one theme: When He returns, people will not recognize Him.

They will miss the signs. Oof.

Your boy was not trying to be one of them.

So, I started digging. The Quran says in Surah 3:47 that He’s born of a virgin. In Surah 3:49 that He gives life and heals the blind. In Surah 19 that He’s sinless. And in Surah 4, He’s called the Word from God and Al Masih, the Messiah.

And I had to stop and ask:

What do those titles actually mean?

Because Islam gives Jesus these divine labels, but no meaning, no prophecy, no story, no relationship. Just titles floating in space. So I opened the Bible. That’s where I found out who Jesus really is.

Not just what He did, but who He is. Bro, that’s what hit me the hardest.

You can believe Jesus is coming back and still not know who you’re meeting.

Now that I’ve met Him, I’m not just waiting for His return.

I’m living like He could knock on the door today.

Islam gave me titles. Christianity gave me a Savior!

Join the movement to become equipped to defend your faith, understand Islam, and lead Muslims toward Jesus. MARANATHA!

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I thought Christians could never answer this.

I would challenge them on this technicality.

Bro, I thought I was so slick for this, but then I studied it. For years when I was Muslim, I never asked who actually built the golden calf.

I just knew it was a sin in the desert.

Then I read both accounts and one detail stopped me cold.

In the Bible, the man who builds the golden calf is AARON.

Aaron is Moses’ own brother. The first high priest (Exodus 32:4)

He gathers the gold, melts it, shapes the idol. And when Moses confronts him, he gives the weakest excuse in scripture: “I threw the gold in the fire and out came this calf.”

As if it made itself.

Bro.

The Bible just put the worst sin in the camp in the hands of the holiest man in the camp. You would NEVER write that if you were protecting your prophets.

Now read the Quran. Surah 20. Aaron is cleared and totally innocent. In fact, he tried to stop it. The blame goes to a mystery man called “al-Samiri.” That literally translates to “The Samaritan.” (Surah 20:85)

But this is what stopped me cold.

The Bible incriminates its own high priest.

The Quran writes him an alibi and invents a villain.

The Bible reads like an honest record.

The Quran reads like damage control.

And there’s a second problem with that villain. “The Samaritan.”

But Samaritans didn’t exist in Moses’ time.

The city of Samaria wasn’t founded until about 500 years later, under King Omri. 1 Kings 16:24.

It’s like putting a Texan at the Last Supper.

Now, some Muslim scholars push back, saying that “Samiri” means something else.

I’ll be fair, that argument exists. But their own classical commentators read it as “the Samaritan” for centuries. The defense only works by re-translating away from how the tradition always understood it.

I used to say the Bible was corrupted. But the Bible is honest enough to say the high priest built the idol.

That’s not the fingerprint of a cover-up. That’s the fingerprint of the truth!

Only a book honest about how bad we are could point me to a Savior real enough to fix it.

The Bible never flattered Aaron at all. It didn’t flatter me either.

It just told me the truth, and handed me Jesus.

[Carlos Erazo @CarlosErazoGTG]

I WISH someone had explained this to me when I was younger Christian.

Every commandment in the Bible and everything it calls a *sin* is actually a *warning* from God not to hurt yourself.

In other words, as it has been said before… When God says DON’T, what He's really saying is: DON’T hurt yourself.

Let me give you several examples.

Sex before marriage - It is a scientific fact that sex creates a neurochemical bond with another person, not just physically but emotionally.

In other words, sex is not just the union of two bodies, but of two souls. So when God says DON’T, he’s saying: you don’t want to be bonded like that to somebody you barely know.

Lying - When you lie, you eventually destroy the trust other people have in you. And the problem with lying is that one lie often requires another to cover it up, until eventually, you've built an entire life around pretending to be someone you're not.

Envy - Envy is resenting God’s goodness in someone else’s life while ignoring God’s goodness in your life. Instead of living a life of gratitude and joy, you live one of bitterness and anger.

Pride - Pride makes a person care more about BEING right… than making a relationship RIGHT. And you become incapable of learning, apologizing, or growing.

Gossip - Gossip destroys relationships… and if someone is gossiping TO YOU about other people, chances are they're also gossiping ABOUT YOU to other people behind your back.

Unforgiveness - This one is tough because you’re already hurt with something. But when you refuse to forgive, unforgiveness makes YOU a prisoner of your past, and a slave to bitterness, resentment, and pain. God says “don’t.”

Greed - Greed makes you believe a lie that if you only had “more” then you’d be happy. Not true. You’ll be miserable.

Lust - We live a culture saturated with lust. It always destroys your ability to experience true intimacy with another person. This is why our culture is terrible at marriage, intimacy, and relationships.
Here’s the point.

Deuteronomy 10:12 (NIV) says “Observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today … for your own good."

When God forbids something, it’s not because he hates you and he’s trying to rob something from you.

It’s because he loves you and he’s trying to protect you.

When He says DON’T, He's not trying to keep you from enjoying life.

He's teaching you how to truly live it.

[𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒚𝒚 @Freyy_is]

you could literally see the conviction hit him in real time. his entire demeanour changed. 🔥

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

Y'all, I’m just going to rant for a minute.

You know what NEVER reached me when I was Muslim?

People who spent all day attacking Islam from the outside.

The Christian critic types. Atheist critics. Internet debate champions. I tuned it out immediately.

My response was always: "Of course you'd say that. You've never lived it."

What actually changed me was cinversation with good friends, continued relationship with them and then doing the work myself.

For years, I tried to make Islam as strong as possible. I read the scholars and studied the arguments. I wanted it to be true because my entire life was tied to it.

I wasn't looking for a way out. I was looking for a reason to stay. But the deeper I dug, the more questions I couldn't answer (or get an answer to). Two things especially shook me:

First, the claim that Abraham and Ishmael built the Kaaba. I kept looking for historical evidence, biblical evidence, archaeological evidence. I literally couldn't find it.

Second, the way the Quran retells the stories of the prophets.

Noah, Abraham, Moses or Joseph. The stories were not just shortened or highlight reels but completely changed.

Then, I kept asking myself:

If this is the same God speaking, why does the story keep shifting? Why do the details move?

Why do the prophets stop pointing toward a larger redemptive story and become isolated moral examples?

Those questions haunted me, until I left. I didn't leave Islam because I hated it. I left because I tested it.

I strengthened every argument I could find and I still couldn't honestly call it the truth.

So if you're wrestling with these questions, don't be afraid to investigate on your own.

Build your beliefs as strong as you possibly can, then test them honestly. Truth doesn't fear scrutiny: Truth welcomes it.

And if a worldview requires you to stop asking questions in order to protect it, I think that's a warning sign worth paying attention to.

Follow for more Christian apologetics, Muslim evangelism, testimony, Maranatha, and conversations that aren't afraid of hard questions.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

This is the Oxyrhynchus Hymn, dated to the late 200s AD. It is the earliest known Christian hymn manuscript with both lyrics and musical notation. A plain English rendering of the surviving words:

“Let all creation be silent.
Let the shining stars be still.
Let the rushing winds and rivers cease.
While we sing to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
let every power answer: Amen, amen.
Strength, praise, and glory forever to God,
the only giver of all good things. Amen, amen.”

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

If you don’t believe Jesus is God or you don’t believe in God at all then I completely understand that.

BUT there’s a cradle Hindu who became a Christian based on the historical evidence and he’s doing a talk about why this Friday in SF. You should come see.

[Allen McKelvey @bugmanallen]

@Revelation1217 Did she have the only window seat on the plane?

[jj smith @war24182236]

San Francisco Do have a problem with Homelessness but there is a bigger problem then that because they do have people that’s choosing to live homeless on the streets because of their drug addiction but you will have people say that’s not true but how would they know and they never speak to people on the streets I speak to people on the streets I know

[Kayleigh McEnany @kayleighmcenany]

🚨 "I didn't originally see Him face-to-face because my face was down because I was so concerned that the list of my mistakes was going to be pulled up," @gabe_poirot told me, reflecting on his 18 days in a coma when he saw Jesus Christ.

"And I was done for. It was like black and white like I have no hope."

"But He picks up my face, He looks me in the eyes, and He says, 'Gabriel, why are you concerned about that which has been paid for?"

@SatAmericaFNC @FoxNews ⬇️

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” - C.S. Lewis