Jim Harger

Retired. Follower of Jesus, member @ Immanuel Lutheran Church, car guy, bicyclist, alumnus of Mlive Media Group, The Grand Rapids Press

[Jim Harger @JHHarger]

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[Bryson Sullivan 🇺🇲 @NaturalParadigm]

Thank you everyone for continuing to credit the source of images when they are not your own, attribution is an important part of the ethos of this photography community and it's really great to see people making the effort. ✅

[Jim Harger @JHHarger]

@SentinelLeach Hang in there Sarah. Your truthful reporting is what the “beloved Sentinel” needs.

[John Sellek @JohnSellek]

I’m so sorry to hear about Kathy Wilbur’s passing today. She taught me so much when I was a policy staffer in Gov. Engler’s office assigned to her dept.

She was a mentor, the best. So funny, knew EVERYONE and how EVERYTHING worked, and had ALL the intel.

Rest in peace kw. ❤️

[Michigan Advance || @michiganadvance.bsky.social @MichiganAdvance]

Kathleen Wilbur, respected force in state government and university administration, dies at 70  https://t.co/VzBzJjIF7o via @michiganadvance

[Jonathan Oosting @jonathanoosting]

Check out Off The Record today for an interesting panel interview with GOP U.S. Senate candidate Peter Meijer - including my hard-hitting question about this:

[GarrettMichaelHayes @GMHForLiberty]

@HeidiOCanada A priest, a minister, and a rabbit walk into a bar. The bartender asks, 'What'll you have?" The priest asks for a whiskey. The minister requests a glass of wine. The rabbit says, "I don't know. I'm just here because of autocorrect."

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Trump-evangelicalism is a religious cult. It's not that the MAGA folks believe Trump is Jesus. No, it's that they wish Jesus was a little more like Donald Trump than the Gospel version of Jesus. The "Love your enemy" and "turn the other cheek" Gospel is deemed unrealistic and weak compared to the "stand your ground" and "don't tread on me" gospel of the NRA... so they reimagine Jesus, not as he was, but as they wish he was. The cult of Trump is what happens when people abandon the sacrificial love of Jesus on the cross and re-create Jesus in their own image with an AR-15 and a MAGA hat... and use him as a mascot for their political team in the idolatrous quest for power. He just becomes a means to an end.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Every Palestinian is made in the image of God. Every single one.

Every Israeli is made in the image of God. Every single one.

If you were upset about Hamas massacring people but are not upset by the massacre happening now in Gaza… check your heart.

Ceasefire now.

[Lynne Eldridge MD @AboutLungCancer]

@andycat3 @RTMannJr Even while every other developed country already has universal healthcare, does it for less than half of what we spend today, and has better health-related quality of life and maternal and infant mortality rates than we do. (Down another 4 yrs since 2018).

[Emily Lawler @emilyjanelawler]

Publicly available information points to only one difference between yesterday, when MSU celebrated Mel Tucker, and today, when it suspended him.

Journalism.

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[H. Mueller @HpsHmueller]

@DaveBondyTV I am a teacher in Hudsonville. Most would assume my students can afford breakfast and lunch. I’ll tell you that the two years of free breakfast and lunch were an absolute game changer in my classroom. So many this last year came to school without breakfast. So grateful for this!

[Zeeshan Aleem @ZeeshanAleem]

I find the term "woke mind virus" so disconcerting. It's used by capitalists and reactionaries to imply that egalitarianism weakens and sickens the nation.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Hannity: Is Biden strong enough to be president?

Newsom: Strong enough? Look at what he just did to McCarthy

[Jim Harger @JHHarger]

@robbystarbuck Correction: Dark times ahead of us if he ends up in the White House.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

An apple tree doesn’t need a sign to tell you what it is. You can tell by the fruit.

The same should be true of Christians.

Every Christian should have the fruit of the Spirit evident in their lives. Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Gentleness. Faithfulness. And self-control.

And the greatest of these is love.

Now there are folks who will say they are loving, even as they condemn people to hell and hurl all sorts of venom. But we know what love is like…

Scripture breaks it down a little more, to make sure we know the characteristics of love:
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” —1 Corinthians 13

It’s not an apple tree if you can see the lemons on it. And it’s not Christianity if it doesn’t look like Christ. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

If it isn’t loving, it isn’t God.
For God is love.

[Jim Harger @JHHarger]

I'm supporting National MS Society! https://t.co/97rVsPLimp via @DonorDrive

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

There's that old saying:
"God created us in his image...
and we decided to return the favor."

That's how you get this version of "jesus."

Jesus was not white.
He did not speak English.
He carried a cross not a gun.
He chose to love his enemies rather than kill them.
That's the real Jesus. This is an idol.

[Matthew Leimkuehler @mattleimkuehler]

Today, Nashville musicians Amy Grant, Kelsea Ballerini, Emmylou Harris, Ben Folds and more signed and delivered a letter urging state lawmakers to pass common-sense gun safety legislation.

https://t.co/mO99LIHuiH

[David French @DavidAFrench]

The settlement represents justice for Dominion, but by no means does it cleanse Fox of its corruption.

Liars must be fired. Viewers must be informed. The company must apologize. And then it needs to hire new, honest producers and hosts.

Until then, it's still corrupt.