Jon Betz

Documentary Consultant - Former Pastor of Citizens Church. Emmy-nominated Environmental Filmmaker @seed_themovie

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@pauljpastor Beautiful work!

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@pauljpastor @kjramseywrites My wife Megan just got this, she's been following @kjramseywrites for awhile. I saw it in her work bag going with her to be ready at her lunch break today. What a small world.

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@pauljpastor Congrats!

[Cormac McCarthy @CormacMcCrthy]

My publicist is on my case about my infrequent use of this infernal website

He says engagement is down and so are metrics and something something who cares

There
I wrote a tweet
Are you happy now Terry

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This is very helpful and has summed up an underlying theme I've been trying to convey sermon after sermon for the two years I've been preaching in way too many words. Thank you @richvillodas !

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

I created this 2x2 diagram for my sermon today on Romans 8:12 (we have an obligation, not to the flesh, but to God)

I expounded on the connection between the acceptance that God’s offers us and the obedience that is to follow as a result.

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

"If there is, anywhere on earth, a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love." —Julian of Norwich

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Also:

[Lesslie Newbigin @LesslieNewbigin]

It is not the superiority of the Church’s preaching which finally disarmed the Roman imperial power, but the faithfulness of its martyrs.

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[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

“The greatest challenge to making disciples of Jesus in the American context is that most people are already thoroughly discipled into the rival religion of Americanism.”

- @BrianZahnd

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

We begin the day in silence because God should have the first word. We end the day in silence because God should have the last word.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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@barrydjones Words to live by. Thank you!

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@Davidallen125 @ronniejmartin @rayortlund Answering God by Eugene Peterson (I'm a Peterson fan), was just what I needed to get inspired to dive in for a teaching series I'm doing now. Gives more of an overview and helps you think about how to read the whole canon of Psalms vs. commentaries Psalm by Psalm.

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@RMattBoyd @josephochambers Working the Angles is great and agree. Learning soul care is the bedrock in many ways for caring for souls it seems.

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Our culture is full of the sirens call. Static dancing and flickering in ever ecstatic but ceaseless and unending noise. It's good to break from word, voice and information consumption to meditate on what is, here and now.

[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

Our prayer each morning should be, “God, rescue me today from cheap joys.”

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

I just heard that Navajo Nation, which has done a heroic job wrestling the coronavirus to the ground, is now donating extra PPE to India. The Navajo have been a model of resolve in fighting the pandemic, and are now a model in supporting others worldwide who need help.

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@chrismtolles @basecamp Totes. Can't believe that made it all the way to the public eye.

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@AlmanME @crosby_katie Also just finding Newbigin and excited. Nouwen, Peterson also making a Renaissance for me. Willard and NT Wright is in there as well.

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And then there's this. (I find humble living is a constant discipline of confronting our biases?) Thank you for informing this Environmental Filmmaker turned pastor, @BrianZahnd. Happy Earth Day everyone.

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@john_starke Needed this. Thank you.