Jim

🇺🇸Lutheran Pastor (SMP); CMDCM, USN, Ret. Vietman, GWOT, Desert Shield, OIF, OEF. SAR Compatriot.

[Jim @coastdeacon]

@RepDelBene Affordability from a democrat? Ha! Look at every blue state or city....start there first.

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@TinaKotek Yawn

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@CynicalPublius She must have part of dancing nurses and doctors as patients died alone.

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@infantrydort Meanwhile, the crazy Ivans on the left are motivated to crawl over glass to vote.

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@infantrydort Most voters, sadly, will be too "busy" to get off the couch and vote.

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@simonateba Missing 4 of the 5 W's. Your a "journalist?"

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@DefiantLs 🤔
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[KFUO Radio @KFUOradio]

Rev. Dr. Brian Gauthier gives a sermon based on Romans 10:9-17.
https://t.co/QFRtlXAZU8

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

The Apostle Paul was an Egyptian revolutionary who led thousands of assassins into the wilderness.

Well, no, not really. But he was mistaken for that man.

In Acts 21, which we read today in Bible in One Year, the Roman commander asked Paul, "Are you not the Egyptian, who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?" (Acts 21:38).

Who was this Roman talking about?

According to the Jewish historian Josephus, an Egyptian Jew gathered thousands of followers around AD 55. He led them to the Mount of Olives, promising that, at his command, the walls of Jerusalem would collapse, echoing Joshua's conquest of Jericho. Before anything happened, however, the Roman governor Felix attacked. Many of his followers were killed or captured, while the Egyptian himself escaped.

Why would anyone follow such a man?

Because first-century Judaism was on fire with messianic expectation. The prophets had promised a coming Messiah. Israel longed for deliverance from Rome. Charismatic leaders repeatedly arose claiming to be prophets, deliverers, or God's chosen instruments.

Acts itself mentions two such figures. Theudas gathered followers before being killed (Acts 5:36). Judas the Galilean led a revolt against Rome (Acts 5:37). Even after the New Testament period, Simon bar Kokhba was hailed by many, including the renowned Rabbi Akiva, as the Messiah during the Jewish revolt against Rome in AD 132-135.

Jesus entered a world filled with would-be deliverers. But unlike them, he never gathered an army, called for revolt, or promised military victory. He rode into Jerusalem, not on a warhorse, but on a donkey. He conquered, not by taking lives, but by laying down his own and taking it up again in his resurrection.

The Christian message did indeed turn the world upside down, or perhaps better, turned it right side up. But it did so not by bloodshed, military conquest, or political revolution, but by proclaiming the gospel, through which God destroys arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of him and takes every thought captive to obey Christ (2 Cor. 10:4-5).

[Jim @coastdeacon]

@JonathanTurley Agree, she's using the DSA voters. I wonder if they like being "used?"

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@DefiantLs No thanks

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@JoanneMason11 Try Don Rickles

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[Jesus said] “In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to Myself, that where I am you may be also.” (John 14:2-4)

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@FoxNews This primary season and November get that arse off the recliner and vote. Out vote the commies.

[KFUO Radio @KFUOradio]

2 There's nothing that can sever
From this great love of God;
No want, no pain whatever,
No famine, peril, flood.
Though thousand foes surround me,
For slaughter mark His sheep,
They never shall confound me,
The vict'ry I shall reap.

Lutheran Service Book 746

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@DefiantLs Immigrant Irish, Germans, Italians, etc should get reparations, too.

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@CynicalPublius Remember Rwanda civil war involving 2 ethic groups

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@Tim_Walz Yawn

Water treatment plants hacked....

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@DefiantLs She's commie curious. She's using the DSA.

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@jsolomonReports Ya, sure