Scott Marshall

A weekly, provocative pastoral note to help you live with depth and love:

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

The body of Christ offers many gifts from its many branches. 1/

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@Bovine_Cartel @krassenstein https://t.co/fvNrgsbZFM
Jerry, this guy is a fair-minded centrist. He lays out the receipts.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Goodness. What a prophetic quote from 44 years ago.

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

@Bovine_Cartel @krassenstein That's just quibbling with words Jerry.

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

“Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.”
Acts 20:28

[Bob Roberts Jr. ن @bobrobertsjr]

For those that promote America should be a Christian nation - wouldn’t that start first with Christian morality & character first for the politicians?

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

@megbasham No. There is no grasp here by you on what’s at stake.

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

NAILED IT: Jeff Bezos: “A nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year pays more than $12K a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?”

“So people talk about making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse in Queens NOT pay taxes? At all!”

“Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year paying more than $1K a month in taxes?”

“That’s $1K a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.”

“And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It’s only 3%.”

“We can find 3%. So we don’t have... it’s a small amount of money for the government. You know that. And the more I thought about it, to me, it’s kind of absurd that we’re doing this.”

“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington — they should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense.”

Exactly!

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

@elonmusk If he is saying that “I do give ridiculously but even that is eclipsed”, okay. If it’s a dodge so he doesn’t have to give, that’s another thing.

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

Religion pays attention to the adherents. How they are is how the religion is.

Christianity is unique in that it pays attention to the savior. How he is, is how the religion is.

[alpha man @alphaman_111]

When Andrew was 6 years old, a judge decided his parents could no longer take care of him.

He was placed in foster care. His brothers and sisters were adopted, but Andrew was left alone. When he turned 10, he moved into the home of Dominique and Kevin Gill in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dominique said, “During his first week with us, he stayed in his room with the door closed, looking at old pictures. He didn’t want to talk.”

Andrew was deeply hurt and kept people away. He shouted, “Just let me move out!” But Dominique refused to give up on him. She gently told him, “We’re going to help you get better.” With time, Andrew learned to control his feelings.

Everything changed when Dominique and Kevin’s son, Joc, asked him, “Do you want to play video games?” Andrew nodded, and from that moment, a strong friendship began.

When Dominique and Kevin saw how close the boys had become, they asked Andrew a life-changing question: if he would like to be their son. Andrew burst into tears and said, “Yes. Thank you for accepting me. Thank you for not giving up on me.” Every child deserves a family that truly loves them.

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

What exactly it’s we’re supposed to be doing when we preach:

“Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”
Acts 5:20

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"The bodily resurrection of Christ from the dead is conclusive proof that Christianity does not adopt a hostile attitude toward anything human or natural, but intends only to deliver creation from all that is sinful, and to sanctify it completely."
-Herman Bavinck

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

“Never exhort. Illustrate!”

Advice from Fleming Rutledge on preaching.

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@tom_peters https://t.co/b4Q1O5UjIV

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

@tom_peters Mr Peter’s, I’m a pastor. I’ve followed your work for a long time with admiration. Thank you for your insistence on us remaining human.

If I may (I mean no impudence), I have been writing into the dark void about AI. Here is a piece I wrote on AI as a greed accelerant.

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

@ahc I’ve started putting “-AI-free writing-” (I refuse to use AI for any help with creative work) on everything I write. Wish we could regulate and require AI to put a watermark/tag-line on anything it creates. Heading into a axiological crisis.

[Bob Roberts Jr. ن @bobrobertsjr]

We live in a day where men who call for peace are called evil & men who call for war are called righteous. Most who call for war have never fought in a war or been where a war is raging. Nothing cures war like being in one. All the verses on peace in the Bible are so inconvenient

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

@richvillodas KC BBQ is even better. Grew up in TX (and visited many times), lived in KC.

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

@howertonjosh IOW, The Pope is on the right side of Church history.
Warmongering can't be found by the early Christians.
Quotes from Church Fathers: https://t.co/v1WmkZuidS

[Scott Marshall @scomarsh]

@howertonjosh Tertullian: "Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier."
Early Church Fathers: The violent passages of the OT are interpreted allegorically.

John: "Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword..."Rev. 19:15
Paul: "..which is the WORD OF GOD." Eph. 6:17