Rich Ellis

I’m the deputy shepherd of The Redeemer’s Church in Berkeley Springs. I have perhaps the best wife and my children are like un2 her. I will try to be ur friend

[Rose Smith @itsrosesm]

Last year Howard Stern said he "hated" anyone who voted for Trump, demanding they stop listening to his show. Today his show is completely canceled!

[Jelly 果冻糕 @jellyjellycake]

how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS??

cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved???

CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD.

goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single.

monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH???

birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about.

there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait.

squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks.

A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES.

and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT???

your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to???

the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR.

I’M SORRY?????

we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????

[Fred Sanders @FredFredSanders]

‘We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.’ -Simone Weil

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

@FredFredSanders Amen

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

If you follow your authentic self, you're going to wind up divorced, addicted, broken, alone, & probably prematurely dead. If you want any kind of contentment, you've got to go straight through truth, & Jesus is the truth.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

— C.S. Lewis

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

New podcast with Jeremy Ellis, Zach Byrne, Mark "The Hammer" Hornbaker and your friendly ghost, Rich: "The Righteous Will Live By Faith."
https://t.co/LBoZb0I0Qy

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

Chuck Norris knows his times tables to infinity.

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

Chuck Norris knows where all the socks are that you lost.

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

Chuck Norris doesn’t ever say “when” to the guy grating fresh pepper.

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

Chuck Norris parachutes into planes.

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

The latest, third hottest podcast on West Market:
https://t.co/vNGIzBLeV8

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

@Tironianae @grok

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

@MorseReport Earth is prolly flat

[🎸 Matt 🎸 @ChristandGuitar]

Gavin Ortlund made a strong case for Protestantism at the end of his recent discussion on The Transfigured Life, which I've clipped here.

Eastern Orthodoxy claims apostolic authority, proven by an unchanging structure that still resembles the church of the first 1,000 years. But history doesn’t support that.

For instance, the Council of Nicaea (325) was called and directed by a Roman emperor. We don’t have emperors calling councils today. If that kind of feature was essential, then nobody today is the church of the first millennium. If it was accidental, then “it doesn’t look the same” is not the test to see who has the "one true church."

What makes the Church the Church is the Gospel.

The Church is not defined by who has a bishop who had hands laid on him by a previous bishop, and so on back to AD 33. That kind of institution can be part of the true church, but it is not the exclusive "one true church."

The Church is where Christ is doing what He did in Acts 2: pouring out the Spirit to the fruit of the Gospel. Gavin is completely correct that we can see that happening outside Eastern Orthodoxy.

The full video (link in comments) was a rough watch. Gavin was interrupted and misrepresented more than once, to the point he had to stop Justin and tell him to knock it off. I don’t think this was meant to be a debate, but it became one very quickly. Gavin still held his ground with great patience in a 2-on-1 and had the better case by the end.

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

@SteveLovesAmmo Everyone knows the unborn are human children. They just won’t look at what they’re doing to them.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

America's entire demographic shortfall is exactly the same as the number of children American women abort

America is aborting its future, imposing HR, and purging men from the workplace so we can have more girlbosses

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

Mark, Zach, and I talked about the Father's Heart--especially in the story of the Prodigal Son.
https://t.co/4YY9QX2y8H

[Peter Boghossian @peterboghossian]

I am alone with a white person

I am alone with a black person

[Rich Ellis @richeygreene]

Mark, Zach and I made a podcast about Christian contentment. I hope it fills you. https://t.co/FPTAUM4I6h