i hadn’t seen anyone eating Nutter Butters in what feels like an eon, but after witnessing it again tonight, i’m now wondering why they’re not an add-in at Cookout? that might be milkshake mecca. am i crazy or are they?
3. Lots of folks want the influence and faux fame that they see in some pastors/ministries, so they focus on platform-building and self-promotion. The older I get, the more I’m convinced: We weren’t made for fame. And we certainly weren’t made for fame at a young age. Flee fame.
on the cusp of Easter, this rings so true. you can’t overspiritualize it—the joys, along with the sorrows, are all incredibly sacred. that we’re alive, that it means something, that there’s hope;
it’s a miracle, even when it’s hard.
cant wait to celebrate a miracle tomorrow.
Christianity, which has been ludicrously accused of being gloomy and the enemy of life, has distinguished itself among the creeds of the world by its quite peculiar insistence on the fact that life is sacred, even when it is sad; that a man is sacred, even when he is oneself.
the thorn (one of many) in MY side is that i regrettably cannot smack upside the head those that tell me to do something and then add “pls,” acting like they asked me a question respectfully.
MISS ME WIT IT.
prolly gonna start wearing Tom’s again. just wanted to keep y’all updated on my long range goal of active and vicious figurative war against all things fashion.
The enemy of truth is not the guy who after honestly considering the competing arguments draws an incorrect conclusion. The enemy of truth is the guy who wants to shut down the debate so that one side's argument can't be heard.
One of the truths that grow truer as a man's experience accumulates is this very old one: that men need a religion primarily to prevent them from worshipping idols.
Reminder: Your pastor has never pastored through a pandemic before.
Perhaps give him a little room to make the wrong judgment call on this or that?
And perhaps, when it comes to determining what's best for the whole church, you're not going to bat 1000 either?
Don’t you ever start to believe that old widowed deaconess who prayed for you, encouraged you, gave you a wet kiss on the cheek and put a little bit of change in your hand was biblically illiterate because she didn’t talk in the theological terms that you’ve learned.