Samuel Tsorlevo

Storyteller • Loves traveling for culture • Minister • #YouWillGoFar

[Samuel Tsorlevo @efo_tsorlev]

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[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

I’m not saying Ghanaians are perfect; there is so much I don’t know about their internal politics. But I must say, I see the Nkrumah effect in their geopolitical posture. There is something about having a revolutionary ancestor that becomes deeply embedded in the orientation of a country’s public servants.

I remember their foreign minister knocking down a U.S. senator on Twitter some time ago when he sounded disrespectful, and the line he used was something like, “This is Nkrumah’s nation.” That was a proud moment for me.

[Hilla Doe @HillaDoe]

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[VICTREY™ @VictoryOlaleye]

You’d almost think Acts 1:8 read
“And you shall receive power after that *great money is given you, to be my witness.” 😔

With the way money is emphasized today.

But having all (Who) we need, Paul stood before kings & common men alike.

[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

🚨𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆’𝘀 𝟭𝟭𝟱 ⚽️⚖️

In my interactions on Man City’s 115, I often observe many folks fail to truly grasp the potential impact that the charged breaches could have had on PL outcomes.

Maybe that’s why they think Man City will only get a slap on the wrist for the charges?

As such, I wanted to do some indicative analysis, year by year, on the potential scale of sporting impact.

For this analysis, I will not incorporate the potential impact of the charges relating to off-the-books remuneration and instead, only focus on the potential impact of the charges for disguised equity injections.

Reading the leaked emails, they outline ongoing arrangements to subvert FFP by the following amounts:
£69.5m annually from 2011/12, increasing to £92.5m annually in 2013/14, increasing to £122.5m annually in 2015/16 and carrying on until the 2017/18 season (at least).

The Der Spiegel leaks came in November 2018 and so it’s not possible to know what actions took place for 2018/19 onwards.

Converting to Euros at the time, this means the emails discussed subversion of FFP/PSR rules to the tune of:
2011/12 - €77.2m
2012/13 - €80.1m
2013/14 - €106.3m
2014/15 - €117.1m
2015/16 - €170.1m
2016/17 - €145.0m
2017/18 - €136.9m

€833m total over the 7 seasons

Let’s take a look at the potential impact of these injections, season by season 🧵

[Sekou Abodunrin @sekoutoure]

Musings on Acts 16:24-34

This is a tricky passage.

Paul and Silas had been beaten, severely wounded, and locked in prison.

Yet at midnight, they were praying and singing praises to God.

When the great earthquake shakes the prison, It is worth noting that everyone's chains were unfastened, not just Paul and Silas’s. Those who prayed and those hearing others pray but did not get involved in praising or praying. This reveals God’s heart for humanity prior to human belief or action. God’s power operates to bring liberation to all, demonstrating His inherent desire to unchain humanity and set captives free but not as a reward for their performance or any merit of theirs.

This physical unchaining of all the captives mirrors the ancient Exodus imagery in Moses’ writing.

Paul and Silas were not praising God in order to get released; their praise was a natural outflow of knowing that their life was already secure in the resurrected Jesus. Their joy was not a religious performance to trigger a miracle, but the practice of resting in God's love regardless of their circumstance. Their prayer and praise in prison is not an act of heroic discipline.

The gospel Paul and Silas preached brings with it its song, which flows from knowing that He has made us sharers in Christ’s life.

Paul and Silas were secure in God's life while in chains.

The jailer drew his sword to commit suicide, assuming the prisoners had fled (which meant execution under Roman law). Paul shouted for the jailor not to self-harm, revealing that all the prisoners had stayed with Paul and Silas!

Paul and Silas represented something radical. The love of God had taken away fearful living. It is the fact that God’s new creation had invaded the present age of self-preservation.

These saints proved they were no longer living under the rule of self-preservation. Because their life was already guaranteed by Jesus' resurrection.

Paul and Silas did not view physical escape as their ultimate goal. If they had fled, the jailer would have died by his own hand. By staying back, they demonstrated the love of God, proving that saving a human life from death and despair was far more important than escaping a prison cell.

Paul's intervention displayed a radically new social order where human life, even the life of a brutal jailor, is valued above personal liberty.

That shook the jailor to his foundations!

When the jailer asked, "What must I do to be saved?", in context, he was asking how to be saved from the immediate fear and hopelessness engulfing his life and which was pulling him towards suicide.

The answer? The gospel.

Salvation here was immediate transformation. The jailer moved from the brink of suicide to washing their wounds, sharing a meal, and rejoicing with his whole household. The realization of God’s grace takes a person out of self-destruction and grounds them in the joy of sharing in God’s life. The kind he had witnessed in Paul and Silas.

Acts 16 is not a story about how to use faith to get God to break your physical chains; it is a story about how the resurrection frees you from the fear of death so completely that you become a agent of life to the very people holding you captive.

… to be continued

[Champion Pope Salawu @SammieSaliu]

For me it was in the garden
He prayed, “not my will but thine”
He had no tears for his own griefs
But shed drops of blood for mine.

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

A young girl at church once asked me what advice I would give my younger self. I told her: spend more time in the Word of God. She smiled and said, “That’s what a lot of people say.”

I’m glad they do. It’s good counsel whether you’re young or old. Feast all you can on God’s Word.

Amos 8, which we covered today in Bible in One Year, speaks of “a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.” In judgment, God withdraws his prophets so that people search north, south, east, and west for someone to proclaim his Word, and find no one.

Now that is not our problem. We live with an embarrassment of riches: Bibles everywhere, high literacy rate, Scripture on our phones, and audio Bibles for those who prefer to listen to the Word.

Access to God’s Word is not our issue. What is? Appetite.

Our lack is not availability, but desire, a hunger for the Scriptures.

So I say this as much to myself as to anyone else: let us pray that the Spirit would kindle in us a ravenous longing for God’s Word, so that we live by every Word that comes from the mouth of our Father, that we daily feast on the bread of life he gives.

As we take in this life-giving Word, we will be filled with forgiveness, life, peace, and hope in Jesus Christ.
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[Samuel Tsorlevo @efo_tsorlev]

@kwakuasanteb Just behave okay😂

[Mole National Park @MolePark]

Where else can you get this in Ghana 🇬🇭
#fyp

[Samuel Tsorlevo @efo_tsorlev]

@Kafui_Yaw Face to face🥹❤️

[Samuel Tsorlevo @efo_tsorlev]

@TheCharlesIsidi Great. Thanks!

[Hilla Doe @HillaDoe]

Vibe coding till 3am, I have to catch a rest
Support me by buying something on https://t.co/u6c4ePJjn7

[Judah Olorunmaiye @JudahMaiye]

When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything I do be considered a sacrifice?

[Samuel Tsorlevo @efo_tsorlev]

Osofo sir❤️🙏🏾

[Sam @DrFeruke]

It is good for us to know that empathy is not a virtue, charity is. And they are not the same thing.

Empathy is “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person by imagining yourself in their situation" per Cambridge Dictionary.

Charity is “to will the good of the beloved” per the great sage Aquinas. Aquinas is simply condensing what Jesus taught and exemplified, which Paul says with many more words in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 and John says in his first letter.

To be sure, being able to understand another person's feelings can fuel charity in some cases. It helps to ease the sting of the sacrifices you have to make for love when you can feel how hurt the other person is and put yourself in their psychological shoes.

Empathy could also pervert charity by distorting your vision and taking your eyes off what is good for the person and focusing on how they are feeling. Empathy could make you irrational by optimising for reducing suffering or maximising pleasure instead of pursuing what is good for the person and others involved in their lives.

You may have heard that empathy is such a virtue that Jesus even came in the flesh to experience what humanity experienced and this qualified Him to be a perfect advocate. But this is a gross misunderstanding of who Jesus is. Jesus, our God, did not aquire new information about human experience by becoming a man since He is omniscient. To “learn obedience” was not the writer of Hebrews asserting a limitation in God. His coming as a man enabled Him to experience Humanity for the sake of being fit by nature to suffer the punishment due to humanity. Only a man should suffer for man.

Therefore, as a man He experienced all our temptations but did not sin. As a sinless man He could bear the punishment for mankind. But more relevantly for this conversation, His experiences give us an example of how a true man can live for God's glory. His incarnation was all for our benefit and not an iota for His. He did not learn human feeling by becoming man. He endured human feeling so that he can qualify as just substitute for human sins.

Jesus did not come as a man to learn our feelings in other to be able to do us good. He had been doing us good from the garden of Eden. He made the decision to do us good even before He took on humanity.

You can do people good without experiencing their feelings. You do not need to be in people's psychological shoes before you can tell what is good for them. You just need to know their being and what is good for them and pursue it.

Empathy has this terrible feature of being easy to manipulate. People who are prone to entering the sensations of others are especially easy to stir about by projecting sensations and move the empath’s will in any direction the manipulator pleases.

A manipulator just needs to act and project certain emotions suggesting they are in deep anguish and the “empath” will believe the manipulator is the victim or that sacrificing justice to alleviate their suffering is good.

But justice is the good and perverting justice to make someone else feel better is proper evil. Perverting justice because justice will increase the suffering of a sufferer is satanic.

Empathy without charity leads to a justice system where verdicts are given based on the emotions projected and magnified by the people involved. It leads to a justice system where the wicked will keep escaping by shedding tears and the stoic innocent will suffer in the wicked’s place.

Empathy is not a strength in itself. It can be a weakness. Empathy does not cost anyone. It's a natural predisposition that people have. Charity is costly. We are not born with it. It takes effort to cultivate and costs us our comfort to implement.
Empathy is useless if it is not serving the good but merely serving an awareness of people's feelings.

Empathy is not a virtue. Charity is the virtue, that is to will of the good of people. A charitable psychopath is better than a foolish empath.

[Deborah Ocheido @d_ocheido]

Is your name in the book of life???

[Alfred Adjabeng @AlfredAdjabeng]

I returned to Ghana after my postgraduate studies in the UK because I had made a commitment to come back and contribute. But choosing to study here again, this time for a PhD, was a different decision.

For me, the question has never simply been whether studying abroad is better than studying in Ghana. It is about purpose, context and what you want your education to make possible.

In this piece, I reflect on returning home, studying across different systems, the opportunities and limitations I have experienced, and why I believe education should ultimately connect knowledge to the realities we want to change.

Read: **Why I Returned to Ghana, and Why I Chose to Study Here Again**
https://t.co/7r3WoqZX7I

[Hilla Doe @HillaDoe]

😂 Can your shopping app do this?

We built the first version of our virtual try-on feature for customers to wear clothes before they order
Kindly test it and give us feedback https://t.co/IbnLvdE2OW

[markTheSon @itsmarkTheSon]

I used to hate church. Then coming face-to-face with eternity after a coma changed everything.
​You don’t read the Bible... it reads you. 📖

#Testimony #Faith

[VT @VusiThembekwayo]

And we are expected to believe that a random bang & unplanned evolution created all this?

I say, TGBTG.

VT