Counterpoint: if there is no clear biblical command to vote for X or not to vote for X, then it is a matter for the conscience of the individual Christian as they believe the Spirit of the Living God leads them… …and we have no right to bind the consciences of other Christians

The only reason to have a multi-site church is to feed the lead pastor’s ego and desire for control. If your church is big enough to have another site, birth it and let it go its own way. Churches aren’t meant to be empires or corporate entities.

The white evangelical king speaks

If Jesus spent 8 hrs a day, every day, for 3 years w/his disciples, he would have spent over 8,000 hours w/them. And after all that time, they still had major gaps! 1 hour a week on Sunday will never change people. We need a life that abides in him, with the support of others.

The look of confused delight & curiosity that occurs every single time I’m out in the community and I tell people what institution I’m with when they ask is always gonna be hilarious to me.

megachurch worship pastor Carl Lentz and his wife just wrote a book about recovering from marital betrayal and he talks about how after the affair he would leave his phone on FaceTime all night long when he traveled for work and stopped wearing his contacts when he would go to the gym so he couldn't see other women. if this is ever my marriage, shoot me with a gun.

There is no Christianity. There are Christianities. There are people citing Bible verses to support the idea that their god commends (and even COMMANDS) the *live streaming* of public executions. A sickness of the soul. We are simply not serving the same god.

I used to be very sensitive to other parents judging me until I had a kid with severe disabilities. You get stared at so constantly that you just become immune to regular parenting judgment. My youngest had his pacifier too long, potty trained late, we still have to push her in a wagon and it does not even cross my mind how other people view my parenting decisions.

Take a listen to this and tell me Kathryn Anne Edwards is wrong I dare you, and I’ll call you a liar. Trickle down and the Laffer Curve are a joke. The laffer Curve should have been called the Laughter Curve, because the rich have been laughing at workers ever since the phase was coined. If worker wages had kept up with corporate greed since the 1970s, American wages would be double what they are today and there would be no economic or affordability crisis. My thanks to Jon Stewart for the clip 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZN8BF7H7A/

so fucking sick of talking about consent, CAN SOME OF YALL JUST GIVE A SHIT AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE PERSON YOU ARE HAVING SEX WITH? like can you be INVESTED IN THEIR WELFARE?

Every fucking word of this. OMG share this with everyone—crying my eyes out…

Imagination is more important to faith than evidence is. A faith that embraces imagination will thrive. A faith that feeds on evidence is malnourished. Christians are not called to prove a God we cannot see. We are called to trust a God we cannot trace.

It's not hard to see the strategy. 1. Silence outsiders by maligning character without naming names. 2. Ignore all the hard evidence. 3. Force insiders to bog themselves down in endless BCO "process" that accomplishes nothing. 4. Meanwhile, continue to work the agenda.

It's remarkable how insightful some men in the PCA claim to be -- knowing the ulterior motives of men who raise concerns about the direction our denomination is taking with respect to female officers.

Reminder…Life is short. Tell people you love them. Make time for your friends. Investigate your God-given purpose. Practice gratitude for the small things. Stop waiting for the “perfect opportunity” This is the time.

1/ You’re going to hear a lot of seemingly earnest reviews of @kkdumez’s book that come with a sly backhand within it. TGC’s and Bonnie Kristian’s are both examples of this Janus approach.

RT @drmoore: Our government posts memes and videos mocking and laughing at the suffering of immigrants and refugees. This is one more sick…

The Sermon on the Mount isn’t just about us. If it was, we might admire it as a fine bit of idealism, but we’d then return to our normal lives. It’s about Jesus himself. This was the blueprint for his own life. He asks nothing of his followers that he hasn’t faced himself. And, within his own life, we can already sense a theme that will grow larger and larger until we can’t miss it. If this is the way to show what God is really like, and if this is the pattern that Jesus himself followed exactly, Matthew is inviting us to draw the conclusion: that in Jesus we see the Emmanuel, the God-with-us person. The Sermon on the Mount isn’t just about how to behave. It’s about discovering the living God in the loving, and dying, Jesus, and learning to reflect that love ourselves into the world that needs it so badly. -Matthew for Everyone

Had lunch with a retired pastor who is as disgusted by penal substitutionary atonement as I am, and it was good for my soul.

Dear Christian, The Bible is meant to be used as a mirror held up to ourselves, not a club for us to use against the world.