Ryan Franchuk @rfranchu

this is absolutely gratuitous, i'm 110% baptist, etc etc but...i have never wanted a lego set more than this one lego.com/en-us/product/…

this is like the only thing "ai" is good for

@mrdavidrowe Amazing. You should write it. It made an indelible impression on our teenage sons too. "...along comes a George Parsloe" is just part of their vernacular

“You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.” Leviticus 19:34 Christians know the miserable bondage we were all in.

good gravy

Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600

8 months ago

He has done it again! The amazing cartographer @MtnMapper created this lovely map of Cirque of the Towers (Wind River Range, Wyoming USA). A master of the craft. I want a map like this at the entry point to every hiking path I am on! Source: shadedrelief.com/cirque/

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@CaveatTies from the depths of my heart, thank you

@HappyThurifer pocketgnts.com

@williamwolfe "So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come." Heb 13:12-14

If, while mocking people you hate, you include mockery of their physical features, the main thing you are communicating is that you disrespect every human with those features, but you will only say so if they step out of line. That's who you are; we know that about you.

God’s words eaten become joy. “Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.” Jeremiah 15:16

When Erika Kirk spoke the words on the man who killed her husband: “That man… that young man… I forgive him.”  That moment deeply affected me.  I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: “ I forgive the man who killed my father.” Peace be with you all.

If there is no God, we are not in the image of God. Then what intrinsic value do we have?

@TheAlanNoble only way it could be better is with all those tracks from oknotok

Let’s stop pretending this is nuance. Let’s stop acting like this is anything other than what it is, racial supremacy repackaged in pseudo-intellectual jargon and dressed up in fake theological seriousness. These guys aren’t subtle. They’re not misunderstood. They’re telling you exactly who they are. And they’re hoping we’re too polite or too gullible to say it out loud. The entire arc of redemptive history bends toward inclusion, not exclusion. The gospel is God’s declaration that He’s tearing down the walls between Jew and Gentile, slave and free, black and white, and making one new man in Christ. From the promises to Abraham that all nations would be blessed, to Isaiah’s vision of all peoples streaming to the mountain of the Lord, to Pentecost where every tribe and tongue heard the good news in their own language, to Revelation’s image of a multi-ethnic bride worshiping the Lamb, Scripture is unmistakably clear. The gospel creates a new family. "Once you were not a people, now you are God's people." So when a man says interethnic marriage can be “relatively sinful,” he’s not making a theological distinction. He’s issuing a dog whistle. He’s telling you he worships a god who looks suspiciously like his mirror image. The New Testament church was filled with marriages that crossed ethnic lines. Timothy was the product of one. Ruth and Boaz? Another. Moses married a Cushite woman and when his family protested, God cursed them for it. God has already weighed in on this. These guys just don’t like the answer. They’re not defending order. They’re defiling grace. They’re not honoring Scripture. They’re dragging it behind the wagon of their own prejudice. If you have to build your theology on categories that uphold racial separation and treat other ethnicities as a threat to the moral order, you are not contending for the faith. You’re denying it. So let’s stop pretending these men are brave thinkers pushing boundaries. They’re white nationalists cloaked in the language of Christianity. They’re not misunderstood. They’re malicious. They twist history, distort theology, and abuse the Bible in order to baptize their ethnic obsession. And no amount of footnotes or clever phrasing can cleanse the stench of their idolatry. Enough. The church does not belong to a bloodline, a flag, or a culture. It belongs to Christ. And He's not interested in preserving your false sense of superiority. He's building a Kingdom out of every tribe, tongue, and nation. You can either get in line with that or get out of the way.

Broadcast Unchanging Window MTV; May 20, 2000

@LewistheLight1 I kinda fell off the deerhoof train for a decade but blast it if 2021's "Actually, You Can" isn't an insane psych-noise-jazz triumph. Blew my socks off.

Paul says we were once “slaves to sin”, helplessly captive in bondage to the stuff. Ro6:17. NO LONGER! But NOW we’re “slaves of righteousness” Ro6:18, similarly captive in our new sphere, monopolised & restrained in a new context. Righteousness is your new master. So submit.

We all talk about what were taken with. If we’re taken with the game/book/movie, we talk about it. If we’re taken with Jesus, we’ll talk about Jesus.

Instead of saying we'll spend "eternity in heaven"...👼 Let's say we'll spend "eternity on the new earth" 🌏 More biblical and less confusing!