Jack Hellerman🦬

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

Things you'll only hear in debate:
Q: Would you marry a serial killer?
A: It would depend on the circumstances.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

Whenever the "Mormons Aren't Christians" discourse gets going, Mormon Twitter generally responds in one or more of the following ways:
1. Insist that rejecting Jesus's divine nature and His work does not disqualify them from "believing" in Jesus
2. "We are literally the kindest and most righteous people on earth."
3. "Your churches are an abomination but we are just like you and it's so mean of you to say otherwise."
4. Accuse of us misrepresenting what they believe and then tell us what they actually DO believe, which is exactly what we just said they believe.
5. Outright lie about what they believe.

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

Doubting one's salvation is an unavoidable conclusion of robbing the sacraments of their efficacy. If a Christian is overcome by sin, they don't need to make a "full surrender," they need to be directed to Christ's promise of forgiveness in baptism, communion, and absolution.

[David Limbaugh @DavidLimbaugh]

From an evangelical perspective there is a paradoxical aspect to the issue of one’s awareness or assurance of salvation: one may doubt his salvation because he feels unworthy, but ironically, that’s not humility, because our salvation depends not on our works but Christ’s finished work.

By doubting yourself you’re actually distrusting Him, which, by definition is antithetical to faith. So if that is an obstacle, one must get over himself and authentically trust Him.

The paradox is that doubting your adequacy for salvation should lead you to full surrender and trust in Him because it should clarify to you that you can never save yourself.

So untether your awareness of your inability to save yourself from your stubborn pride in trying to do it anyway. Use your sober awareness of your inadequacy to drive you to Him —not away from Him.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

Because so many Evangelical churches have turned worship into entertainment, many Evangelicals expect entertainment to be worship. So both audiences and financiers expect their movies to have very direct messages and altar calls and a degree of "purity" that hinders character development and good storytelling.

I think Evangelical audiences can be broken out of this, but they effectively need to be taught by example what real Christian filmmaking is. Which means they need another group to lead the way. And, honestly, you're going to need Catholic filmmakers and financiers to do that because the Lutherans don't have the resources and the Reformed don't have the vision.

[Lamar @LamarDealMaker]

America's reading problem, explained as if it were sports:

Imagine every 8-year-old in the country gets assigned to the same baseball team. 30 kids per coach. The kid who's been swinging since he was 4 and the kid who just picked up a bat yesterday are in the same drill, at the same tempo, getting the same cues.

Nobody gets evaluated. Nobody gets a personalized plan. The coach runs one practice for everyone and moves on when the clock runs out, not when the players get it.

Some kids are already bored. Some are lost. Most are faking it.

This goes on for 12 years. Six hours a day. Every day.

At the end, we hold a combine. Only a 1 in 3 of the players can make contact. The rest swing and miss at pitches they should've learned to hit in T-ball.

The league's answer? Raise the coaching budget 36%.

That's American reading. Per-pupil spending is up 35.8% since 2002, inflation-adjusted. Adults stuck at the lowest literacy level climbed from 19% to 28%.

More money in. Worse hitters out.

[Jay Martin 🏠 🏢🏚️🌇 @jaymart222]

Unbelievable

Yesterday the Mamdani Administration submitted its objection to the bankruptcy sale of a property arguing that the sale shouldn’t go through because the laws in which the mayor has advocated for have made the building an unsustainable business.

To interpret what this means. It’s the city of New York validating in court that the rent stabilization system as it exists is a taking.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

A non-exhaustive list of Islamic terror attacks in the U.S. over the last 25 years:

🔸 Fort Hood shooting — November 5, 2009 — 13 killed

🔸 Little Rock recruiting office shooting — June 1, 2009 — 1 killed

🔸 Boston Marathon bombing — April 15, 2013 — 3 killed

🔸 Chattanooga military recruiting center attack — July 16, 2015 — 5 killed

🔸 San Bernardino terrorist attack — December 2, 2015 — 14 killed

🔸 Pulse nightclub massacre — June 12, 2016 — 49 killed

🔸 New York City ISIS truck attack — October 31, 2017 — 8 killed

🔸 New Orleans ISIS truck attack — January 1, 2025 — 14 killed

🔸 Boulder, Colorado firebombing attack — June 1, 2025 — 1 killed

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

@StefanAsbom @TheDonStein In whose name are we baptized?

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

I asked a non-denom coworker how many pastors his mega-church has and his immediate response was "what do you mean?"
The fact that that question does not have an immediate clear answer should be a clue that there are problems with the popular understanding of the pastoral office

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

@calvingelical @PastorDeberny So Christians can't have sinful desires?

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher asks where the “keffiyeh-wearing college kids” went now that Hamas is “shooting everybody.”

“Where are the protesters?!” Maher exclaimed.

MAHER: “Have you noticed that now that Hamas has taken over again, they’re what?”

MARK CUBAN: “Shooting everybody.”

MAHER: “Shooting everybody! Where are the protesters? Suddenly, the keffiyeh-wearing college kids are very quiet.”

CUBAN: “Can’t be found. Yeah, can’t be found anywhere.”

MAHER: “This is okay? It’s just amazing, the asymmetry of what goes on.”

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

.@PoudreSchools held a secret gender and s*x club and told kids not to tell their parents.

A 12-year-old girl was tricked into joining the club and then tried to commit suicide

Watch the dad’s heartbreaking story:

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

@PastorDeberny 100%. If the only thing distinguishing your relationship with your pastor and your relationship with some pastor whose sermons you listen to on the internet is whether you're in the same building, something is wrong.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

George Floyd held a gun against a woman’s stomach during an armed robbery. You would never say that he “died by the code he lived by.”

Charlie Kirk, by contrast, never physically laid a finger on anybody. But his words are violence so you try position his murder as deserved.

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

@JoshWireless @Nosceres @ArkansasTomsBBQ @MetzUAC1530 What is your biblical support for the claim that baptism is a work by the baptizand? Romans 6:3-6 and Ephesians 5:25-27 make it quite clear that baptism is God's work, not ours.

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

I expect we will see an increase in liberal mainline Christians emphasizing their faith as a counter to the many conservative Christians who, until now, have been the only people who could convincingly express the significance of faith in their lives.

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

I think John Green's sudden decision to post a video about his faith for the first time in almost 20 years signals a realization among liberals that they desperately lack appeal to the growing number of young people with strong religious sensibilities.

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

@shebringsjoy My daughter is being baptized tomorrow at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Kettering, OH!

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

@beyondreasdoubt So when lawyers uphold attorney-client privelege they're protecting their client, but when a pastor upholds the seal of confession he's covering up sex abuse?

[Jack Hellerman🦬 @JackHellerman]

@beyondreasdoubt L take. Christian pastors will be forced to either violate the law and uphold the seal of confession, or violate the seal of confession and be defrocked. Private confession and absolution is a good and Holy rite that should not be violated for any reason.