Cris O'Brien

Christ follower, family man, youth pastor, sports fan

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@conservmillen @ostrachan @thedispatch It’s a sickening hypocrisy.

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@shane_pruitt78 Amen

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@RogWhitehouse @griffingulledge Yes! Down 40 pounds in 4 months.

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@andrewtwalker The three possibilities I can envision are Biden, Harris, and Michelle Obama, in that order of likelihood.

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@dailowe @darkprof Answering a question with a question because you don’t have an answer 🤌

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@dailowe @darkprof Great. Where did everything come from? And while you’re at it, how did life itself originate?

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@WillStandridge 100% true in my experience as well.

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@DannySlavich I’m a youth pastor and go to 2 local HS Bible clubs every week. One school allows us to bring pizza every week, and the other doesn’t. The school w/ no pizza has plateau’d around 20-25 kids. The campus that allows pizza is 6 weeks old and we had 60 on Tuesday! Pizza works!!!

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@NahumOBrien I have a box full of them haha.

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@pastor_adam What we believe. I don’t think we do “what we do” particularly well.

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@StuartROwens 10 years ago, contemporary music seemed to have a resurgence in songs about death and heaven (Revelation Song, Forever, etc). Maybe I just don’t keep up with what’s new anymore but seems like that category has vanished.

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@bkauflin Same metrics as an unbiblical sermon or book—an unbiblical song teaches things contradictory to the Bible.

Beyond that, there’s a conversation to be had about what types of songs are wise to be used in worship, but whether a song is “biblical” is a fairly narrow question.

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@youngadamc @clbolt @Bill_Gro https://t.co/64XwAZ6T2f

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Sociological studies have found that, compared to the average American family man, devout Christian men who attend church regularly are the most loving husbands and more engaged fathers.

They have the lowest rates of divorce. And astonishingly, they have the lowest rate of domestic violence of any major group in America.

By contrast, nominal Christian men, which means they are not particularly devout and attend church rarely if at all, have the highest rates of divorce and domestic violence—even higher than secular men.

These numbers are staggering: They tell us that men who claim the evangelical label often exhibit worse behavior than men who are outright secular.

Nominal men skew the statistics, creating the false impression that evangelical men as a group are abusive and domineering and divorce more often.

(sources in The Toxic War on Masculinity)

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@DrJTPennington Another parallel:

Gen 3:6 λαβοῦσα ἡ καρποῦ αὐτοῦ ἔφαγεν καὶ ἔδωκεν καὶ ἡ ἀνδρὶ αὐτῆς

Luke 24:30 λαβὼν τὸν ἄρτον εὐλόγησεν καὶ κλάσας ἐπεδίδου αὐτοῖς

Eve & Jesus both take fruit/bread and give it
But where Eve eats, Jesus blesses

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@TimDalrymple_ I don’t have strong data to back this up, but I strongly suspect that the strongest support for Trump comes from white ‘evangelicals’ who don’t actually attend church.

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@FearThePegasus Ah, now I follow. Feel like it was kinda clear that I was referring to the NCAA tournament.

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