Kris Minefee

Pastor Calvary Baptist Church in Athens, Texas

[Kris Minefee @krisminefee]

The Holy Spirit glorifies Jesus for He is worthy. He left His heavenly throne, came to earth as a child, lived in this sinful world without sinning. He died in our place upon a cross of shame and rose again from the tomb showing the world His holiness and power. He is worthy of glory. And we are also with the aid of the Holy Spirit are called to glorify Him. Since this is our calling, then this must be our course.

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[Kris Minefee @krisminefee]

The United States of America was not chosen as a nation by God, instead our nation's founders chose to follow God. The blessing and promises of Israel are not ours, but the blessings and promises of God’s word to any person or any nation that puts their faith and trust in His word are ours. May we never lose our faith and hope in God. May we always be a nation whose God is the Lord and will always be able to say, “In God we trust.”

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[Rosie Memos @almostjingo]

THIS IS AWESOME! Happy 250 America 🇺🇸

[Kris Minefee @krisminefee]

The Christian way of life can be summed up with one word...love, specifically agape, self-giving, self-sacrificing love. We see this in John 3:16, the verse that encapsulates the Gospel. bringing it into clear focus. Jesus wants the apostles and us to realize this truth. Yet it is a lesson most Christians never seem to learn. When it is most needed and could make such a difference in the world and especially in a church, this central tenet of the Christian faith fails in us.

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[Kris Minefee @krisminefee]

Being a father in this world is a tough, hard, nearly impossible job. Our hope lies not in a perfect fatherhood, but in our perfect Father. That is where our hope and hearts should be on this Father’s Day. Go to Jesus seek life for your family. He is the life giver. Go to Jesus and intercede for you children. He is the One who answers prayer. Go to Jesus and put your faith in Him unconditionally. He has promised, “I will never leave you. Never forsake you. Never fail you.”

Fathers much rests on your shoulders, but Jesus has promised he would bear the yoke with us. Let us rejoice and trust in that promise.

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[Protestia @Protestia]

Backflipping for Jesus?

Ed Young's Fellowship Church (SBC) has a "worship dance circle" for their youth group, where they encourage the kiddos "Join the dance circle this Wednesday @7 PM!!"

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Hmmm 🤔 I was wondering about that flag.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Austrian president said all women should wear a hijab to show solidarity with Muslims:

“With increasing Islamophobia, we might have to ask ALL women to wear a headscarf to show solidarity with those who do so for religious reasons.”

This is mental illness.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

We Asked AI To Make Soccer Less Boring

[Kris Minefee @krisminefee]

The branch does not strain to grow a leaf or send out a tendril or shoot forth a bud or grow a cluster of grapes. These things happen because the branch is attached to the vine. In the same way, the power of a Christian life is in staying strongly secured, absolutely attached to the vine, Jesus Christ. All you need is in Him. Make sure your relationship with Jesus is strong and the fruit will take care of itself.

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[Kris Minefee @krisminefee]

Only those who have believed and by that faith are part of God’s family will respond to the trumpet call. Only those who believe Jesus is Messiah and Lord of Lords and King of Kings. These will hear the trumpet call meant and rejoice at the heaven splitting sound. But for those who refuse to believe and repent, the Lord’s return will see them flee in terror, begging the mountains and rocks to fall on them, but for them, there will be no place to hide from the wrath of God.

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[David Fish @DavidFish7]

This is a recent clip of Bill Johnson preaching from the Passion Translation and praising the footnotes.

The only problem? The footnote of the passage Bill is quoting is plagiarized from p. 599 of a book by Glenn David Bauscher (image below) and the second half is plagiarized from the website of a fringe filmmaker named Victor Alexander.

Brian Simmons gets the praise (and financial reward) from the Bethel platform, while the authors whose work he stole do not.

The Passion Translation is still sold on the Bethel website and bookstore.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨In 1999, CDC data showed BABIES getting the Hep B vaccine in their first 30 days had a 1,135% INCREASE IN AUTISM compared to those who didn't get the vaccine.

They panicked, held a secret meeting at Simpsonwood with Big Pharma & regulators...then BURIED THE DATA.

[Kris Minefee @krisminefee]

John 14-16 contains Jesus’ last great lesson to the Apostles and it will push them beyond anything they have experienced in the 3 ½ years of their relationship with Jesus. By the early morning hours the first church will be scattered and on the run. Jesus knew had to prepare them, remind them and encourage them as they faced the crisis of their lives and faith.

Some of the things Jesus said in the Upper Room that evening apply only to the apostles but much of it applies to all believers in our own times of upheaval, sorrow and loss. We need to listen now, because our own time of overturning could come at anytime and we will need to hear the voice of Jesus saying, “Believe In Me.”

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[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges — already blind, already legendary — sat across from William F. Buckley on Firing Line & explained why English is the greatest language in the world & why he respected it too much to write his poetry in it.

[Kris Minefee @krisminefee]

Three simple parables told by Jesus in the Temple. They all have simple application and oh such a simple action on our part. Repent like the son sent to the vineyard, receive the Son of the Father when He draws near, and accept the invitation of the King by putting on the garments washed white as snow in the blood of the Lamb.

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Kris Minefee @krisminefee]

Do we still produce men who can prayer like this in our societies?

[Kris Minefee @krisminefee]

Who are we on the Jericho road when Jesus passes by? Are we the rich young ruler who can’t see past himself to see Jesus. Are we like the blind men, just beggars with no hope or help unless Jesus has mercy on us. Perhaps we are like Zaccheaus, we have all we need but when Jesus walks by we realize how empty our life really is. When Jesus walk by, salvation walks wih Him.

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[Kris Minefee @krisminefee]

Who are we on the Jericho road when Jesus passes by? Are we the rich young ruler who can’t see past himself to see Jesus. Are we like the blind men, just beggars with no hope or help unless Jesus has mercy on us. Perhaps we are like Zaccheaus, we have all we need but when Jesus walks by we realize how empty our life really is. When Jesus walk by, salvation walks wih Him.

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