Phyllis Garrett

looking for the helpers

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

One plus about the current state of our culture and its pull to the extremes is that most of us will never go far enough to please an unhinged public. The truth is, we become slaves to those from whom we seek approval.

What a relief to just make it our aim to please God. Everything and everyone else we bow down to, no matter how benevolent the beginning, no matter what forecasts of good, will turn tyrannical. God alone can bear the burden of being God. God alone is Light and in him alone is no darkness.

I have zero shame proclaiming the gospel of Christ in this day. In my opinion which, granted, is worth its weight in chicken feathers, the gospel is not only truth. It’s the sanest thing out there.

Jesus saves

us from ourselves

from our enemy

and from our brethren and sistren.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Some good news. This week all the Amazon nations vowed to end deforestation within the decade. The Amazon rainforest is home to over 3 million animal species. It stores 4x as much CO2 as the earth emits in a yr.

To save ourselves. We need to save the Amazon. #ActOnClimate

[Jared Stacy, PhD @jaredstacy]

The very first point of the very first class I took in youth ministry at Liberty University:

“Hitler was the greatest Youth leader of the 20th century”

🧵x12

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Kindness🌸

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Let us thank God for all the ordinary Christians who daily love their neighbors and live by faith in the resurrected Christ.

They are the secret and sacred agents in the kingdom of God. The world will never know them, and it’s much better that way.

They work openly, yet in secret, in small acts of self-sacrifice that subvert the reigning egocentric ethos of a world saturated with emotion and dry of truth.

They consider others more important than themselves. They make it their ambition to lead quiet lives. And they raise their children to believe a life well lived is in the pursuit of serving others.

They daily pray, confess their sins, and cast themselves upon the mercy of Christ. He forgives and raises them up to forgive others, to show mercy, to speak the truth in love.

No one will reward them or applaud them. Nor do they seek such recognition. They are simply living as a children of God, content with his approval in Christ.

Their lives are an ongoing doxology whispered in holy anonymity while passing through this dying world on the way to resurrection.

[Phyllis Garrett @GarrettPhyllis]

@erichoke https://t.co/RkisJEUuXq

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Biden: My administration is "here to send a message to the country and quite frankly to the world: A free press is a pillar, maybe THE pillar, of a free society — not the enemy."

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Here’s a mnemonic device to help you remember "opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun."

(Just imagine you’re talking to a film icon & salad dressing mogul.)

"One Simple Adjective Sequence Code: Order Matters, Paul Newman."

[Phyllis Garrett @GarrettPhyllis]

@JennMGreenberg Have you cleared out all previous edits? Go to Review/Changes, and click that side button to accept all changes. If you’ve amassed many side comments in the process, you can clear those out too. That May free up some space. Also, don’t skip the updates.

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

The U.S. federal government expects to collect about $2.33 trillion in individual income taxes this year, according to the Office of Management and Budget. https://t.co/cDx3oiaN6A

[Phyllis Garrett @GarrettPhyllis]

@MerriamWebster Realtor

[Phyllis Garrett @GarrettPhyllis]

@MerriamWebster Vomit 🤢 (use a synonym!)

[Phyllis Garrett @GarrettPhyllis]

@bravegirlspeak So sorry, dear friend. The Body of Christ stands with you

[Phyllis Garrett @GarrettPhyllis]

@curious_founder Vanadium

[Auschwitz Exhibition @auschwitzxhibit]

The Polish-born French-Jewish artist David Olère was deported to Auschwitz in Feb.1943. He survived selection and was put to work in the Sonderkommando, where he was forced to empty the gas chambers and burn the bodies. Olère provided testimony after the war through his drawings.

[Daniel Yang @koobxwm]

People communicate their desire for a tribe but what they need on a daily basis is a version of super family, clan, and close friends.

[Phyllis Garrett @GarrettPhyllis]

@JesterWootton Deception is at its core. Trickery and force, the two oldest forms of injustice.

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

We're hiring influencers and by that I mean firefighters who influence the forest to no longer be on fire.