@rustyrockets Welcome to the family. May the light of Christ shine in your life and through your story. Excellent experience for me and my family and we're also celebrating a bunch of baptisms tonight at our church in Idaho!
@Jeff_Palouse@blakecallens Kingdom is the language of the Gospel but the Good News is that Jesus is a new kind of king. That's a subtlety that gets sidelined, especially if you promote Psalm 2 as the primary prophetic vision of Christ's rule.
@blakecallens "Christ is King" is the new "Black lives matter."
OF COURSE it's a true statement, in both cases. But in our current social context, it communicates secondary messages that we need to be aware of.
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2 ways to see Saints. 1: "they're so amazing how can anyone do what they did, Praise the Lord." 2: "they are following Christ and I'm following them and that small sacrifice I made yesterday and the one I'll make this afternoon are made by a strength I am growing into because I'm a child of God." Neither way requires me to talk myself or othes down. Faith in the faithfulness of God doesn't include negative comparison of myself with Saints, at least I can't see why it should.
@Jeff_Palouse Invoking good on another should be as natural to us as breathing. Our breath is from God arguably an even more intimate connection to Him than our image. As we stand under a shower of blessing it makes sense that we can't help but pass it on.
@Jeff_Palouse I missed that there was an article. Read it now. Like: beautiful story of courage and faith. Still Question: the negative comparison to the hypothetical "many" and the idea that powerful blessing is reserved for exceptional saints and martyrs.
@jordanbpeterson@ConceptualJames listening to your pod for the 2nd time and then my wife shared this with me. Thought it adds some interesting layers. Also connects Cain and Abel to the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard.
Why Read The Bible In Hebrew?
Let's talk about the most famous murder in human history—the story of Cain and Abel.
In order to understand it, we'll need to unpack one of the most mysterious words in the entire Bible.
A thread (for non-Hebrew readers too!) 🧵 1
@elonmusk Wokeness is opposed to Freedom of Speech. Freedom of speech protects dissent for everyone. Wokeism uses social pressure to squelch dissent. Which is why COVID and Trans both trigger the woke cancel.
"At its heart #wokeness is divisive, exclusionary and hateful. It basically gives mean people a reason… it gives them a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue. What do you think?"—@elonmusk.
What do YOU think?
@AlexBerenson listened to "The Deceivers" interested in when you were in Colfax? Fun to run into that in the story the day I had just driven through to Spokane.
@khbotkin@JonHaidt talks and writes about this kind of thing. I'm interested. I think we're smarter and safer together (talking and listening) than shooting at each other from the trenches. (Which dialect do I speak, btw?)