Chris Renner

Follower of Christ. WKU ‘97, ‘99

[Chris Renner @rennerchris]

@Ihunanya_chi Christophanies.

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@neoavatara @AndrewCFollett This guardsman already getting paid regardless of where he’s posted. To make an issue out of a rounding error while we’re blowing it out on entitlements is a heck of a note.

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@elonmusk @PseudoMnemonic And they've forgotten what real evil looks like, finding it instead lurking in every hedgerow.

[Chris Renner @rennerchris]

As of July 4 1776 they weren't. Violence did not necessarily proceed from it, however. That was a choice by the Empire. Doing nothing, or compromise, were also options. But (unlike progressivism) there was no need to use coercion to get people to assent to the principles of independence. The principles were self evidently true. Many colonists remained loyal to Britain, however. Force ended up being required to secure the independence, due to how the Empire decided to respond. But that was not a necessary result of the principles themselves. I reject the premise implied in your initial question.

[Chris Renner @rennerchris]

My understanding is they have to sell high enough to cover the cost of what's in the ground now. You can't just cut your price on gas that you bought high just because buying more now would be cheaper. You'd lose money on that tanker full that is already bought and in your tanks.

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@CaralhoPhilly @GKCdaily Actually I think an invading force occupied them--as a result of a declaration of truths--and they resisted. How aggression by a foreign occupier is a direct result of those principles is a bit of a leap.

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@CaralhoPhilly @GKCdaily I'm just asking you for a definition, so we can operate of the same set of presuppositions. Surely you're capable of defining revolution?

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@CaralhoPhilly @GKCdaily Define revolution.

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@CaralhoPhilly @GKCdaily What a non sequitur. The British fired first. The principles behind independence were not inherently violent.

[Rocketshipalx @rocketshipalx]

My thoughts after 3 months in the US/Texas🇺🇸:

- Americans are way more extroverted than Europeans
- Talking to strangers is normal here
- My first H-E-B trip felt like Boris Yeltsin seeing an American grocery store
- Some food is more artificial, but the amount of choices is insane
- You can still eat healthy. You just have to choose it
- High risk, high reward is real
- Way more people are entrepreneurial
- People dream bigger than in Europe, and they actually execute
- Obv not everyone is smarter, but the smart people are world-class
- Successful people here are way more down-to-earth. In Europe, successful people care about status and can be arrogant
- Cars. Enough said
- Americans have perfected artificial sweets
- There’s still more freedom here than in Europe
- One thing I didn’t expect: some Americans talk down on America
- As an outsider, that’s weird, because imo it’s still the greatest country on Earth🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Chris Renner @rennerchris]

@NC5 Hendersonville needs a Sir Pizza.

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Nailed it.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

Respectfully, this is where many Christians part ways with the hirelings

A minister’s job is not to sanctify every identity that a culture invents.

A minister’s job is to proclaim Christ.

The Church exists to point people to repentance, redemption, forgiveness, holiness, and reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ.

When a prayer becomes centered on celebrating identities rather than glorifying God, something has gone terribly wrong.

The Cross is not a symbol of affirmation.

The Cross is a symbol of transformation.

Jesus never called people to find their identity in sexuality, politics, race, status, or personal desires.

He called them to find their identity in Him. That’s right.

That is the Gospel.

Everything else is secondary.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

During my years as a biblical counselor, I met with hundreds of workaholics and the families they left in the dust.

These men and women were followers of Christ, members of a local church and readers of the Bible, but fundamentally dysfunctional when it came to their work. This shouldn't be surprising: because "the office" is such a significant dimension of our lives, it's very easy for our sin to infiltrate this environment. It impacts us in three common ways:

1. The office can make us feel able and competent.
2. In the office, even if it's over just one person or project, we get to flex our muscle and command co-workers and budgets.
3. Our culture paints the good life with lavishly furnished homes, luxury cars, overflowing wardrobes and flashy jewlery. If money is the key to unlocking those things, and the office is the doorway to money, no wonder we spend the majority of our time there!

Don't be afraid to be ambitious with your career; don't be afraid to take a role of authority at your workplace; don't feel guilty for enjoying comfort after a long day of work. But, don't look to those things for your identity. Live in awe of God and let that impact everything you think, say and do in the office.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Mark Dever recently suffered a serious cardiac event. The Lord graciously spared his life, and Mark is recovering well.

In God’s providence, listen to what he said on his most recent appearance on @9Marks’ 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘬.

Praying for this dear brother.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

In the ancient world, the way many people gained great wealth was by forming gangs of strong men, beating up their neighbors, and taking their stuff.

People still speak with admiration of men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, but they were little better than gangsters who enriched themselves through armed robbery.

This was a negative sum game, and assured that people remained poor and unhappy for thousands of years.

Eventually, however, we figured out that respecting each other’s rights, building things, and trading meant that we could play positive sum games instead. We could increase the amount of wealth, and all would benefit. As a result, we moved from living in unheated shacks to living in what our ancestors would’ve thought of as paradise in only a few hundred years.

However, there are still people out there who think that beating someone up and taking their stuff is a really great idea.

It is the great task of our civilization to shun such people, as they are not fit to be part of society.

[Chris Renner @rennerchris]

The Biblical story is one of God's rescue mission to restore creation and bring His Kingdom to earth. Jesus announces this in Mark 1:15, and his life, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection is the story of the crowning of Jesus as King and being given all authority over the heavens and the Earth (Matt 28:18).

[Ed Stetzer @edstetzer]

We often think of heaven as a distant place we go to after we die. But in God's Homecoming, N.T. Wright challenges that assumption.

Wright argues that, in the Bible, heaven and earth are not meant to be completely separate realms. Rather, heaven is God's sphere of reality and earth is ours. From the beginning, God's intention was for the two to work together, with God's presence, purposes, and rule fully expressed in creation. The story of Scripture is not about escaping earth for heaven, but about God's plan to bring heaven and earth together in the renewal of all things.

In this conversation, Wright explains how that biblical vision changes the way we think about our daily lives, our churches, and our mission in the world today.

Watch the clip and listen to the full episode of the Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

-from the @WycliffeHall chapel at Oxford University

[Chris Renner @rennerchris]

@AustinKingMT Agree. We are AT&T customers but I can’t stand being hassled. We purposefully go out of our way to avoid waking past them.

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@BartBigThunder It wa a great place to grow up.