Stu Dent

Wisdom seeker

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Feeling rather silly I'll have to change my name...hang on, no, I'll always be a student in the course which is life #lifelonglearner

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HRLA https://t.co/OE9il8F0dG

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A truly angelic choir is male voices. Right or wrong?

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Try to stop https://t.co/h2rVhD5cbR

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@EJFreeAuthor @HansFiene Ever Green!

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@TaraBull Fnid

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@Airaasayss White with black outline

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@nwanyioma18 Except did you write 10+25=25?

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@Jennnyyyyyy 44 easy

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@RevFisk 2020 was an eye-opener!
Talk about 20/20 vision!
And you were helpful in that space. Thank God for 2020!

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Don't Ban X! - Click here: https://t.co/TXdpwG4n58

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On Trial for a Bible Verse: Defend Free Speech in Finland - Click here: https://t.co/BrLGGaMXhE

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@OzLutheranChick Praise God His grace comes to us through His Word also.

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@OzLutheranChick All the odd ones:)

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@HansFiene Thank you for this message. I needed to hear what Jesus thinks about it all.

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Remember the One who has overcome evil. Jesus Christ takes away our despair. He has suffered it all for us on the cross and lives now to give us eternal life.

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From yesterday's sermon:
Like many of you, I saw those pictures from the security camera footage of Iryna Zarutska, looking up in horror right after she’d been stabbed. I’m still haunted by the expression on her face. And I imagine it will haunt me forever. I don’t think I’ll ever get over it. And I think there are a few reasons for that. First, I’m a father and seeing her looking up, confused and terrified, bewildered and curled up like an innocent little child…I can’t even bear the thought of that happening to one of my children.

But theologically speaking, the picture haunted me as well. At first I thought it haunted me because she looked like a lost little sheep being devoured by a wolf for no reason. And she certainly did. But the more I’ve thought about it, the more I realized that the look of innocent, childlike terror on her face haunts me so much because I think that’s the kind of expression that Jesus had on His face as He cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” It’s the expression of an innocent one being hated without cause, an innocent one being pierced by those under the power of the demons.

And that look, that expression? That’s the expression that Jesus willingly let be burned upon His own countenance to make you His own, to open your ears to hear His voice and to follow Him in the arms of God. That’s the sorrow that Jesus allowed to be emblazoned on His face in order to rescue you from sin and death and sorrow forever. That’s what Jesus Christ has done for you. It’s what He did for lost sheep who were also acting like vicious wolves. It’s what He did for David and Paul and countless others. And it’s what He still can give to countless souls in a world that seems filled with countless wolves.

So just as we pray for the families of the Catholic school shooting in Minnesota, just as we pray for the families of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk, so we can also pray for those vicious murderers who took innocent life and we can pray for the vicious hearts than enabled those murders and cheered them. We can pray for the government to punish the wicked where laws have been broken, just as we can pray that Jesus would find the wicked on the cliffs of their own making and bring them home. We can pray for God to use the government to shut the jaws of those flashing their fangs, and we can pray for God to use the church to turn the howling mouths of wolves into the hungry mouths of sheep who will feast on His forgiveness.

Don’t despair over the state of the world. Jesus Christ has already overcome the world, and the devil and the wolves under his power are only howling because they know their time is short. But Jesus Christ will continue to pull His sheep out of the devil’s jaws and make for us brothers and sisters we never thought possible. Then, on the Last Day, He will return and burn all evil into ashes, just as He will lift us out of the graves, dry our tears eternally, and deliver us into the kingdom where we will never know sorrow again. This will happen. It’s more certain than the sun rising tomorrow. Don’t despair. The King who makes sheep out of snarling wolves is already reigning, already holding you in His hands, and He will never let this world devour you.

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Hi, I signed a petition to NSW Premier Chris Minns & NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman which says: Stand with Joanna Howe. Will you sign this petition? Click here: https://t.co/8GlffgjL1D Thanks! https://t.co/8GlffgjL1D

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@SpeciesofAUS Briefly. Allowing lay-reading. Allowing women to vote. Allowing women to have leadership roles. However, I wholeheartedly agree there must be separation from LCA.