Kyla Bleyenberg

American transplant to Canada | education enthusiast | Jesus follower | eclectic retweeter

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

Being lied about don’t deal in lies.

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

If

[Kerry Baldwin 🤍🖤🕊 @MereLiberty]

The highest calling of women is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. And that does not necessitate marriage and children.

[Live Action @LiveAction]

When Ellie Goldstein was born, the doctor held her up and declared:

“This is Ellie; she’s got Down syndrome. She will never walk, talk, or go to university.”

Here she is competing on Strictly Come Dancing:

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

@Kamscan Any update?

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

@michealpardue @claysmith79 @SBCExecComm1 @PastorOnTheFly Seriously? What was their reason?

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Some church will always have better coffee, better music, better facilities, better speaking, better marketing.

Showcase Christ and his gospel. Nobody can improve on that.

—@jaredcwilson

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

@justindeanlee Same thing can be done by telling a person you are going to take their hiccups and then cupping your hands under their chin, without touching them and then just wait. People are so taken aback and focused on when their next hiccup will come, it never does. I’ve had 100% success.

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

Valuable analogy. Positive human interaction is an intangible that those who take a purely utilitarian view will get wrong every time.

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

I keep coming back to the "Doorman fallacy" when I hear about how Harvard has hired McKinsey to help it fire up to 25% of its staff without asking anyone what they actually do.

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

@n_hold This analogy & your account goes to show that a purely utilitarian view is never sufficient when human community is involved. If the decision-makers don’t recognize this dynamic, things will end up worse for everyone.

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

@JennMGreenberg I am so sorry for what you went through but praising the Lord for your clarity & wisdom here. The church needs clearer teaching on forgiveness & reconciliation. I love that you say no amount of forgiveness will change who they are. Forgiveness does not require exoneration.

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

@wax___crayons Three pronged folder

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

So much of the Christian life can be boiled down to two simple truths.

1. You are no longer your own. You belong to Christ.

2. You are no longer 𝘰𝘯 your own. He gave you the church.

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

@Wildfyrewarning @janesue821 This was exactly what I was thinking—when the whole class reads aloud together, it is clear who is ahead and who is struggling. Kids are fully aware of where everyone else stands. This is just the nature of a diverse classroom. Unavoidable. And not necessarily bad.

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

Godly women who "think well" in the Bible:

--Moses' mother devises a great plan to save his life (Exodus 2)

--Jael delivers God's people from evil warriors by her shrewdness (Judges 4)

--As men act like cowards all around her, Deborah judges Israel well (Judges 4)

--Naomi forges a wise plan to bless Ruth, a plan that eventuates in the birth of David, the kingly forerunner of the Messiah (Ruth 2-3)

--Abigail's incredibly shrewd intervention keeps David from slaughtering dozens of people (1 Samuel 25)

--An unnamed woman identified as "wise" helps David forgive and reconcile with Absalom (2 Samuel 14)

--An unnamed woman saves Abel Beth Maacah from Joab's wrath (2 Samuel 20)

--Esther shows amazing fortitude, strength of character, and remarkable shrewdness in effecting the deliverance of the Jews from their enemies (Esther 4-9)

--The Proverbs 31 woman has great "wisdom" (26) and is praised by her husband as having done "excellently" (29)

--Mary is the first eyewitness to the resurrected Christ while the apostles are gripped by fear (John 20)

--Priscilla is used (with Aquila) to help the silver-tongued Apollos understand the Christian faith more accurately, showing her knowledge and acumen (Acts 18)

--Timothy's mother and grandmother are clearly godly women of strong character (2 Timothy 1)

--Mature godly women are summoned and directed (!) to teach and train younger Christian faith in godly femininity in order to cultivate the family and the home (Titus 2)

There are many other instances of this kind of wise and godly womanhood in the Bible. This is a mere sampling. But it suffices to show that there are not a few women who think well; there are many women who think well and glorify God in doing so.

In fact, in a good number of biblical examples, godly women help godly men in a very clear way: their sound thinking HELPS GODLY MEN NOT DO VERY STUPID THINGS. Are these interesting narratival episodes? Yes. Are they more than that? Yes. They are showing us a pattern that applies to our own lives. Godly men must not think that they can feel free to neglect feminine counsel and feminine wisdom. To the contrary, a godly wife--who gives wise counsel--is one of God's greatest blessings in a man's life.

Such a blessing saves numerous godly leaders from utter disaster throughout biblical history. This is, to repeat, God rebuking us proud men who think (at least in our less great moments) that we're self-sufficient. We don't need to hear counsel, especially from a woman. Instead, the biblical record shows us quite clearly that if strong men had only listened to themselves and other men, they would have shed blood like rivers, and defamed the honor of God in extremity.

Brothers, we are not subservient to feminine counsel. Feminism lies in many ways. We must lead, and we must lead without slavishness or fear. We do so without necessarily having our wife always agree with us (as one example). We men are called to lead, and so in humility and conviction, we lead.

But we do not lead in pride and self-exaltation. We are not threatened by godly women; we see godly women as a gift, not a threat. In appropriate contexts (like marriage), we should welcome godly feminine counsel. In the life of the church, further, we do not silence the feminine voice; in good and right ways, we hear from godly women.

We make clear as men of God that we want to hear from them. We value their contributions. We honor their gifts. We want a thriving woman-to-woman ministry in the local congregation, and we want women to flourish and thrive and serve in all kinds of meaningful ways in God's church.

There is much more to say here, but the point is this: in rejecting feminist lies, we also must reject anti-woman lies. The Christian faith does not denigrate womanhood, or put it beneath godly manhood; the Christian faith honors godly womanhood, and shows it to be of great value and great worth to God and man.

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

@realstephenpoop @EstieMaddie Except it wouldn’t have originally been in Greek?

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Six ingredients of true repentance:

1. Sight of sin
2. Sorrow for sin
3. Confession of sin
4. Shame for sin
5. Hatred of sin
6. Turning from sin

— Thomas Watson (1620–1686)

[Kyla Bleyenberg @kyladee]

@alessiaspad @cljack Another verbal one is: a farmer has 20 sick sheep (sounds like “26 sheep”). One dies, how many are left?

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

The strongest case for homeschooling is that nobody loves your child more than you do, and nobody has more stake in their flourishing.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him. . . . But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.” 1 Samuel 30:6

He will get you through.