I think about this on an outside the church/inside the church basis. Inside the church, I absolutely have to stand for a Christian moral ethics and hold others in the church to that ethic. In those cases, we will have to challenge those identities/ideologies for those who proclaim Christ, for those identities are idols. My critiques of the right today is about that: what I believe to be the church’s abandonment of a Christian ethic for political power. When it comes to those outside of the church, I cannot think of a time that I had to affirm or disapprove of anybody’s ideology/identity to love them. If they don’t trust Christ, they’re not regenerate, they’re not going to care about what a “biblical” view of their life is about. So I can’t expect them to live/approve of what I (rightly) believe is wrong in their life. Unless they specifically ask me, I am not compelled to speak into those things. Essentially, my view on this is formed a lot by 1 Cor 5:9-13. Believers? I’m absolutely going to talk about a Christian ethic? Outsiders? I’m going to love them and give them Jesus. I’ll trust the Word and Spirit to sanctify them once they come to Jesus. Until then, I can trust in God’s justice to handle whatever they believe or do that is of sin.

The Bengals are the only team in the last 10 years to be leading the league in sacks while blitzing the least, through 7 weeks. Blitz data: FTN Data via nflverse (2022–26), NFL tracking data, 5+ rushers (2016–21).

Bengals are the least blitzing team but tied for the lead in sacks. Via cincybengalcentral

The highest-graded NFL defensive lines this season, per PFN’s DL Impact metric 😤 The Bengals have joined the elite 👀

Only three NFL teams have top-eight scoring offenses *and* defenses this season: -49ers (3rd in scoring offense, 8th in scoring defense) -Bengals (5th, 6th) -Jaguars (8th, 4th)

Erick All’s career is likely over. At some point @nflcommish/@NFL’s @NFLOfficiating need to call/fine/suspend for him drop tackles. Roquan Smith is among the worst offenders.

The U.S. is brainwashed by hate. Only 0.8% of U.S. adults are trans. Only 1% are Muslim. Only 1.6% identify as gay. Only 1.4% as lesbian. Only 4% are undocumented. That’s why they pick these groups to “save” you from. Small % = easy targets Start with the sin in your own heart.

Look at what has been done to the presidency. Look at how destitute this has become. Not only is the comment crazy but keep in mind they’re both also married.

Meleek Thomas went crazy on both ends of the floor in his NBA debut for the Cavs. 16 PTS, 1 STL, 6/10 FG, 4/5 3PT, 19 MINS

Is there a Fox News correspondent who hasn’t cheated on/left their spouse while peddling “faith,” “family,” & “sanctity of marriage” to audiences they manipulate? Don’t get me wrong I’m 💯% pro faith, family & sanctity of marriage, that’s why I can’t stand the conceited hypocrisy

Meleek Thomas in his NBA debut: 16 points 6-10 FG 4-5 3P This dude was a second-round pick???

The strangest High School mascot in each state.

August 21, 1883. Just after six in the evening, the sky over Rochester, Minnesota turns the color of a bruise. Twenty minutes later, a third of the town is gone. Thirty seven people are dead. More than two hundred are bleeding in the streets. Rochester had no hospital. Not one. So a convent school on the edge of town emptied out. The nuns walked into the wreckage in full habits, and a woman named Mother Alfred Moes, an immigrant from Luxembourg who had come to America with almost nothing, sent word to the only doctor in town who could handle that many wounded. His name was William Worrall Mayo. He was 64, an English country doctor, a hard skeptic on the subject of religion. The sisters took over Rommel's dance hall and turned it into a hospital overnight. None of them had ever been trained in nursing. They learned it standing up, with Mayo giving orders and the injured laid out on the floorboards. When the last patient was gone, Mother Alfred went to see him. She told him Rochester needed a real hospital. A permanent one. She said she had seen it, a great hospital rising out of the cornfields on the west edge of town, and that she wanted him to run it. Mayo told her the truth. A building like that would cost $40,000. Well over a million in today's money. He said no congregation of school teaching nuns could possibly raise it. She did not argue with him. She simply told him that if he would take charge of the hospital, the sisters would take charge of paying for it. Then she went out and did it. For six years, her sisters taught school and handed over their wages. Every dollar. She bought nine acres of farmland. She hired the builders. She oversaw the plans herself, and when the money ran short, she found more. Saint Marys Hospital opened on September 30, 1889. Twenty seven beds. Thirteen sisters, none of them nurses by training. Dr. Mayo, now 70, walked in as chief of staff with his two sons, Will and Charlie, beside him. Those two boys built their surgical practice inside her building. Patients started arriving from Chicago, then from every state, then from overseas. The brothers formalized the partnership in 1919 and gave it their family name. Mayo Clinic. Today it treats more than a million patients a year and is ranked the best hospital in the United States. Mother Alfred Moes died on December 18, 1899, ten years after the doors opened. She never saw what it became. The Mayo brothers always said it plainly. Their father did not want the hospital. The nun did. She built it, and then she handed them the keys. Millions of Americans have made the drive to Rochester with someone they love in the passenger seat. Almost none of them know that the whole thing started with a 54-year-old woman standing in tornado wreckage, refusing to accept a no. h/t: Minnesota | FB

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I propose we move from: “You’re not a true Christian if you vote for ________.” To: “You’re not a true Christian if you don’t follow the Sermon on the Mount.” It’s time we measured Christian faithfulness not by political allegiance but by allegiance to Jesus & his teachings.