@kyleegriswold@joe_rigney Winsomeness and clarity are not on opposite ends of a spectrum. They’re orthogonal virtues that, when combined, produce unusually effective and humane communication. One without the other is incomplete; together they’re powerful
Meditations For Holy Week:
At the dinner six days prior to Jesus' Passion, at the home of Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, Mary anoints Jesus with costly spikenard. Judas objects in the language of compassion, invoking the poor as the measure of Mary's excess. John refuses to let that framing stand. He tells us plainly that Judas was a thief, quietly helping himself to the common purse all along. This is one of Scripture's most penetrating observations about the human condition: moral language can be deployed with great sincerity-sounding force by someone whose inner life is entirely disordered. Learning to discern what is actually happening beneath the words being spoken is a form of wisdom the Church has always needed.
Jesus does not expose Judas in front of everyone, and Theodore of Mopsuestia's reading of that restraint is worth sitting with. Jesus used directness only when it could genuinely help the person being corrected. Where it would accomplish nothing, he held back. That is not passivity or conflict-avoidance. It is the wisdom of someone who reads people from the inside, who knows what will open a person and what will only close them further. That kind of perception is itself a gift of his union with the Father.
@BitcoinUndisc Love this!
Following Jesus is not just accepting his gift of salvation, but accepting that gift to enable a growing obedience to his way
@nic_carter Should be:
- team snowball fight
- contact figure skate ( a figure skater, while performing a routine has to continuously dodge 2 medium skill skaters)
@allie__voss Forgiveness is a commandment, practiced and modeled by Jesus.
Any statement or behavior opposed to forgiveness is demonic.
There is no "but..."
🧵Let's talk about Marxist Inversion in BTC:
This is a thread on my observations of the core versus knots debate as an outsider.
Every organization, company or institution WILL have to contend with those that try to invert its original purpose (Marxists).
To understand why I call them that you must let go of the idea that Marxism exists only as a political system and see it instead as a worldview.
Marxism can exist in your bookclub your Pilates group or your Tech startup.
The motivation is simple:
The established order allows for little personal advancement.
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Hello Mr. Favreau,
@matt_vanswol asked me to give a Scriptural rebuttal to this, so I will.
When progressives quote this verse against conservatives, they usually mean it as a mandate for government welfare: Christ’s command is fulfilled once the state redistributes enough resources to feed the most people. But that interpretation misreads both the passage and the Gospel itself.
First, Scripture never presents mercy as a numbers game. When the crowds pursued Jesus only for food, He refused to continue multiplying loaves:
"Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves… Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life" (John 6:26–27, ESV).
In other words: Christ Himself stopped feeding people when it became entitlement without faith. That should trouble anyone who treats His words as a blank check for leftist-style state redistribution.
Second, the Bible teaches that suffering is not to be eradicated by policy fiat but endured. When Mary anointed Jesus with perfume worth nearly a year's wages, Judas objected that it could have been sold and given to the poor. Jesus replied: "The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me" (John 12:8, ESV). If maximizing relief for the poor were the highest good, Judas would have been right. But he is not.
The point is clear: charity is commanded not to maximize relief but to conform the giver to God. Otherwise, using your own standard, invoking Christ to sanctify state redistribution condemns not conservatives, but Christ Himself.
I urge you to repent, return to church, and practice the kind of charity that transforms the giver as well as the recipient.... not the empty virtue of spending other people's money while sneering that no Republican knows Christ.