Nate Powell

Husband, Dad, Pastor at @auburncc_ne, Speech Coach, Bus Driver. Seasonal tweets on the @cardinals.

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
— John 15:5

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Mormons are often very personally offended when Christians say that Mormonism isn’t Christian. This is dumb.

Joseph Smith’s first “encounter” with God involves God telling Smith that every creed Christians profess is an abomination to God.

Every creed.

That includes the Nicene Creed. They reject who God is, who Jesus is, the nature of salvation, the nature of exaltation, the clear teaching of Scripture, etc..

Mormonism rejects the very core of the Christian faith in all its essentials. Joseph Smith knew this but nowadays they are playing mind games with their own people and with real Christians.

Either THEY are Christians or WE are. It’s one or the other. Not both.

When asked “Will all be damned but Mormons?” Smith replied, “Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119)

The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS Church is “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ….”

Brigham Young, second only to Joseph Smith in Mormonism said…

“Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity” (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

“The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God” (Journal of Discourses 8:171).

I could easily give you pages of them saying they are the only true Christians and how we are all ignorant beasts and our doctrines are wrong. They knew at the time they had a different God, gospel, Scripture, and system of belief. But now it has become expedient to pretend otherwise while still preaching all those false and unchristian things.

Mormons, your leaders are gaslighting you and you are gaslighting us. You aren’t Christian but we want you to be. Flee from Mormonism. Flee from Joseph Smith.

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

L is for Loveable. #nocubsno

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

FINAL: Giants 18, Cubs 3.

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

Underrated band: Roxette.

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

@lite_thespark The one correct answer is to install a trap door in my living room with this little guy underneath:

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

Droids are not persons and have no rights. And we do not need to be lectured about it. (Literally the most insufferable thing that's ever been in a star wars movie.)

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Give me your best Star Wars nitpicks. No reasonable criticisms or analysis, I'm talking real pedantic here.

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

@juicyjhomie @SandyMac718 Not the performance. The showboating.

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PCA could stand to wear a pitch after yesterday’s ridiculousness. #flytheL #nocubsno #stlcards

[STL Smitty @hsmith047]

1. Pete Crow-Armstrong
2. Adolf Hitler
3. Ian Happ
4. Osama Bin Laden
5. Joseph Stalin

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

@NatePickowicz @Pastor_Gabe But what if I try to have a Roger Daltery moment with a microphone? Is that allowed? 😎🤣

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

@MLB @Cubs

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@theepicmap Come thru Nebraska. We have the Arch in Kearney.

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

@nikthestorm I'm just trying to understand how, out of all the scenes in the book, THAT is the cover art.

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@Pastor_Gabe @reformedhg Had to be Pedro Pascal.

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

My wife says:
1. Price rollbacks for parks and cruises.
2. New movies/stories get first priority in movie making, not remakes.
3. Magical Express buses come back.

I say:
1. Great Movie Ride/Backlot Tour/Animation Studio all come back to Studios.
2. A proper hat store in each park, with sizes hats for those of us w/ large heads.
3. Morocco is back at Epcot, and we finally fill the other country slots and include Israel.

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

Some people go to baseball games to cheer for their teams. I go to ragebait the opposing fans. 🤣

#stlcards

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

For the record, my 18 year old son thought it was great.

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Going to start ranking my Star Wars films as tier 1 and tier 2.

Mando and Grogu is going on tier two, ranked somewhere between The Caravan of Courage and The Battle for Endor.

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

AKA it was a fun little ditty, but didn't need to be a star wars movie.

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

@GSOHoppers Bumping the hat giveaway to tomorrow too?

[Nate Powell @pbnate]

Tarps off. Play FreeBird. Walk it off. This team is awesome. #stlcards