Rob Blackmore 🏝️✝️🌰 ⚾️🐻🧲

Love the Word/Love Jesus/Love My Neighbor/The Good News-The Kingdom is Here… Contractor/Wife with 3 children. Bleed Scarlet & Gray, Redlegs, Bears, and Spurs

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

“And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you" (Mt 6:5).

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[Rob Blackmore 🏝️✝️🌰 ⚾️🐻🧲 @RoofSuds]

@JoshuaBarzon Where’s the light show and band?

[Rob Blackmore 🏝️✝️🌰 ⚾️🐻🧲 @RoofSuds]

@RealShahriqKhan The pattern of 3 is usually a sign of testing in Hebrew literature.

[The Buckeye Nut @TheBuckeyeNut]

Is Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan tenure the dirtiest era in modern college football history? Or is there another program that tops it? 👀

[Rob Blackmore 🏝️✝️🌰 ⚾️🐻🧲 @RoofSuds]

@RevKimWChafee “Help” is too weak in English. We help someone carry groceries. An ezer rescues, protects, counsels, confronts, and even corrects.

Ezer describes one who uses strength on behalf of another. It is the language of advocacy, rescue, protection, and faithful partnership.

[Rob Blackmore 🏝️✝️🌰 ⚾️🐻🧲 @RoofSuds]

@birdchadlouis Go’el and hesed are 2 of my favorite Hebrew words to meditate on… Last year I did a wedding ceremony based off Ruth and Boaz and go’el

[Holy Post Media @HolyPost_Media]

When we agree with voices warning that immigrants & foreigners are “taking what’s ours,” we reject the abundance mindset God calls us to have.

Where God and his Kingdom are present, there is always enough. What if Christians lived like we actually believed that?

⏯️ Full video on YouTube: “Do We Live in a World of Scarcity?” by @philvischer

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Christian Nationalism is an oxymoron… and a heresy. It centers America, rather than Jesus, as God’s divine messianic force in the world. It is a form of idolatry. It is a threat to democracy and a threat to authentic Christian faith.

Rebuke it, in the name of Jesus. The Bible does not say “God so loved America” — but God so loved THE WORLD.

[image by Shibboleth Magazine]

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

For Christians in America to celebrate the Fourth of July is good and right. We are citizens of this nation, enjoying its privileges and embracing its responsibilities. So today, we grill our hamburgers, wave our flags, and shoot fireworks.

Yet, while we are citizens of this nation, our ultimate allegiance is to God as members of the kingdom of his Son. His reign, teachings, and ownership of us trump everything else. Christ is not a president we elect; he is the King under whose reign we live.

This means, at a bare minimum, that when the government or its leadership should ever ask us or try to force us to do something that, as citizens of Christ’s kingdom, we cannot do, our response must echo the apostles: “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).

It also means that our beliefs, worship, priorities, loves, and overall worldview are not shaped by the American ethos but by the teachings of the Christian Scriptures.

The Epistle of Diognetus, written in the 2nd century, captures these truths beautifully when it says of Christians: “They participate in everything as citizens, and endure everything as foreigners.”

Here is the context:

“For Christians are not distinguished from the rest of humanity by country, language, or custom. For nowhere do they live in cities of their own, nor do they speak some unusual dialect, nor do they practice an eccentric way of life. This teaching of theirs has not been discovered by the thought and reflection of ingenious people, nor do they promote any human doctrine, as some do. But while they live in both Greek and barbarian cities, as each one’s lot was cast, and follow the local customs in dress and food and other aspects of life, at the same time they demonstrate the remarkable and admittedly unusual character of their own citizenship. They live in their own countries, but only as nonresidents; they participate in everything as citizens, and endure everything as foreigners. Every foreign country is their fatherland, and every fatherland is foreign.” (Michael Holmes, The Apostolic Fathers in English).

This is a sober truth to ponder as we celebrate this day.

[Rob Blackmore 🏝️✝️🌰 ⚾️🐻🧲 @RoofSuds]

@SraWheeler I agree K-12 should know the Bible. My concern isn’t if it’s taught but how. Reading the Bible as ancient Hebrew meditation literature; literary designs, hyperlinks,& unified stories is difficult. Churches don’t teach K-12 in that way, how do we expect public schools teachers to?

[Rob Blackmore 🏝️✝️🌰 ⚾️🐻🧲 @RoofSuds]

“If the purpose is to teach students to read rich literary texts to better equip them to understand and appreciate literary and cultural traditions, then teaching key passages from the Bible is an excellent idea.”

Love this but…
Can churches accomplish this? Why schools??

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

Whether or not the Bible should be required reading in public schools isn’t the right question.

Nor is it the most pressing one for Christians. https://t.co/3R9g7TCPIO

[Rob Blackmore 🏝️✝️🌰 ⚾️🐻🧲 @RoofSuds]

@RevKimWChafee Saul’s Sandwich! Really interesting story of David wanting to kill Nabal for insulting him sandwiched in between 2 stories of David sparing Saul’s life (the guy actively trying to kill David)… Abigail is the perfect example of an ezer keeping David from becoming Saul-like.

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

God is not absent when He is silent. And He is not absent when others are causing pain. 

He is near. He is with you. He sees the injustice & will work all things together for good. (Romans 8:28)

Keep trusting Him. Keep going to Him. He will not leave you here.

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

Whether or not the Bible should be required reading in public schools isn’t the right question.

Nor is it the most pressing one for Christians. https://t.co/3R9g7TCPIO

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Say it loud.

Peacemaking doesn't mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People. That’s the Truth. https://t.co/dB5VEOCjIb

[CBS News @CBSNews]

American workers' share of the nation's income is at its lowest point in almost 80 years, as more of the economy's gains flow to corporations and investors. https://t.co/jNkAZL3olw

[Rob Blackmore 🏝️✝️🌰 ⚾️🐻🧲 @RoofSuds]

@JoshuaBarzon It’s Top Secret

[David French @DavidAFrench]

One thing that's interesting about Justice Roberts's birthright citizenship opinion is how his careful explanation of history shows how the immigration debate rarely changes. The argument that "these people are too different to join us" has just failed, socially, culturally, economically, and morally, time and time again.