TC
@osucowboytc.bsky.social
Former missionary, former pastor, deeply wounded by both for very different reasons.
I just want the church to try to look like Jesus.
I just want the church to try to look like Jesus.
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TC
@osucowboytc.bsky.social
· Nov 18
God is love. And his justice flows out of his love. So when we are filled with the love of God, our hearts should desire justice just like he does. We should be grieved at injustice just like he is. Love demands it.
Hey @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social, we're gonna need a Christian Bluesky map.
November 30, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Hey @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social, we're gonna need a Christian Bluesky map.
Christians spending their energy grasping for power instead of loving their neighbors won't result in a society influenced by the love of Christ. At best it will result in a society that reluctantly acquiesces to forced cultural practices.
November 30, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Christians spending their energy grasping for power instead of loving their neighbors won't result in a society influenced by the love of Christ. At best it will result in a society that reluctantly acquiesces to forced cultural practices.
Wanna make America great? Proceed in humility. Listen. Consider others as more important than yourself. Love others as yourself. Treat others as you want to be treated.
November 29, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Wanna make America great? Proceed in humility. Listen. Consider others as more important than yourself. Love others as yourself. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Use a GIF to show me where you’re from.
November 29, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Use a GIF to show me where you’re from.
I'm a diehard @cowboyfb.bsky.social fan. But this year has been so disheartening, I barely even care to watch. Something has to change.
November 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM
I'm a diehard @cowboyfb.bsky.social fan. But this year has been so disheartening, I barely even care to watch. Something has to change.
First time smoking a turkey. 🤤
November 28, 2024 at 9:33 PM
First time smoking a turkey. 🤤
I just saw an ad for reusable toilet paper.
a woman says and like why and like don t
ALT: a woman says and like why and like don t
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:41 PM
I just saw an ad for reusable toilet paper.
Christian Nationalists use "Christ is King" to announce a reign of terror against non-Christian Nationalists.
Christians use "Christ is King" as an invitation to all people into the merciful reign of a loving God.
Christians use "Christ is King" as an invitation to all people into the merciful reign of a loving God.
November 28, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Christian Nationalists use "Christ is King" to announce a reign of terror against non-Christian Nationalists.
Christians use "Christ is King" as an invitation to all people into the merciful reign of a loving God.
Christians use "Christ is King" as an invitation to all people into the merciful reign of a loving God.
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Happy, "completely made up story to lie about our relationship to the native Americans in hopes to heal the rift caused by the civil war but damn these Greens and Mac and cheese are SLAPPIN" day.
Happy cognitive dissonance day.
Happy cognitive dissonance day.
November 28, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Happy, "completely made up story to lie about our relationship to the native Americans in hopes to heal the rift caused by the civil war but damn these Greens and Mac and cheese are SLAPPIN" day.
Happy cognitive dissonance day.
Happy cognitive dissonance day.
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A word for turkey (the bird) in Turkey (the country) is hindi.
A word for turkey (the bird) in Hindi (the language) is tarki.
A word for turkey (the bird) in Hindi (the language) is tarki.
November 28, 2024 at 4:09 PM
A word for turkey (the bird) in Turkey (the country) is hindi.
A word for turkey (the bird) in Hindi (the language) is tarki.
A word for turkey (the bird) in Hindi (the language) is tarki.
🧵Romans 1 spells out a way that God gives people over to their carnal desires. Fundamentalists love to point to that passage to condemn people (while ignoring Romans 2).
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November 28, 2024 at 1:37 PM
🧵Romans 1 spells out a way that God gives people over to their carnal desires. Fundamentalists love to point to that passage to condemn people (while ignoring Romans 2).
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People in positions of spiritual authority who abuse will continue abusing as long as they are idolized and affirmed by infatuated followers. #bozlaw
November 26, 2024 at 4:19 PM
People in positions of spiritual authority who abuse will continue abusing as long as they are idolized and affirmed by infatuated followers. #bozlaw
Course-correction without attempts towards restitution and reconciliation is not full repentance.
You can't just leave a wake of destruction in your path and then say you've changed so it should all somehow be ok now.
You can't just leave a wake of destruction in your path and then say you've changed so it should all somehow be ok now.
November 27, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Course-correction without attempts towards restitution and reconciliation is not full repentance.
You can't just leave a wake of destruction in your path and then say you've changed so it should all somehow be ok now.
You can't just leave a wake of destruction in your path and then say you've changed so it should all somehow be ok now.
It seems like Trump's picks for leaders of health-related fields are people who would be likely to allow him to experiment with injecting bleach or shining bright lights at people to fight contagious diseases.
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 AM
It seems like Trump's picks for leaders of health-related fields are people who would be likely to allow him to experiment with injecting bleach or shining bright lights at people to fight contagious diseases.
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@danielwalbert.bsky.social glad you're here, Dan!
November 27, 2024 at 12:17 AM
@danielwalbert.bsky.social glad you're here, Dan!
Growing up in a cultural Christian environment means you have to deconstruct the tendency to depend on the culture to make you righteous and understand that only Jesus can do that.
November 27, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Growing up in a cultural Christian environment means you have to deconstruct the tendency to depend on the culture to make you righteous and understand that only Jesus can do that.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Rudy Giuliani: the reality is I have no cash. Right now, if I want to call a taxi, I can't do it. I don't have a credit card; I don't have a checking account. I have no place I can go take cash out, except a little bit that I saved but its getting down to almost nothing
November 26, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.
November 26, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.
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It’s release day for BROKEN BONDS: A NOVEL OF THE REFORMATION!!!! 🎉🥳
📖 The story of LUTHER, ERASMUS, MELANCHTHON clinging to faith in a chaotic world. 🔥
Want to win a signed copy? 🏆 LIKE AND REPOST to be entered in the drawing.
Purchase here: shop.1517.org/products/978...
📖 The story of LUTHER, ERASMUS, MELANCHTHON clinging to faith in a chaotic world. 🔥
Want to win a signed copy? 🏆 LIKE AND REPOST to be entered in the drawing.
Purchase here: shop.1517.org/products/978...
November 26, 2024 at 12:38 PM
It’s release day for BROKEN BONDS: A NOVEL OF THE REFORMATION!!!! 🎉🥳
📖 The story of LUTHER, ERASMUS, MELANCHTHON clinging to faith in a chaotic world. 🔥
Want to win a signed copy? 🏆 LIKE AND REPOST to be entered in the drawing.
Purchase here: shop.1517.org/products/978...
📖 The story of LUTHER, ERASMUS, MELANCHTHON clinging to faith in a chaotic world. 🔥
Want to win a signed copy? 🏆 LIKE AND REPOST to be entered in the drawing.
Purchase here: shop.1517.org/products/978...
Many evangelicals can't identify what is wrong with hardcore Christian Nationalism because they were raised with the more palatable version being the norm in their churches.
November 26, 2024 at 4:13 AM
Many evangelicals can't identify what is wrong with hardcore Christian Nationalism because they were raised with the more palatable version being the norm in their churches.
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This.
Our responsibility is to not become bitter and hardened. To keep a soft heart able to hear confession and acknowledge repentance and offer forgiveness if it is asked of us.
But I can’t forgive what they won’t own and repent of.
Our responsibility is to not become bitter and hardened. To keep a soft heart able to hear confession and acknowledge repentance and offer forgiveness if it is asked of us.
But I can’t forgive what they won’t own and repent of.
Periodic reminder:
The biblical standard for forgiveness is confession and repentance. Even God works on this standard.
Asking victims to forgive when there is no repentance is unbiblical.
The biblical standard for forgiveness is confession and repentance. Even God works on this standard.
Asking victims to forgive when there is no repentance is unbiblical.
November 26, 2024 at 3:02 AM
This.
Our responsibility is to not become bitter and hardened. To keep a soft heart able to hear confession and acknowledge repentance and offer forgiveness if it is asked of us.
But I can’t forgive what they won’t own and repent of.
Our responsibility is to not become bitter and hardened. To keep a soft heart able to hear confession and acknowledge repentance and offer forgiveness if it is asked of us.
But I can’t forgive what they won’t own and repent of.
Periodic reminder:
The biblical standard for forgiveness is confession and repentance. Even God works on this standard.
Asking victims to forgive when there is no repentance is unbiblical.
The biblical standard for forgiveness is confession and repentance. Even God works on this standard.
Asking victims to forgive when there is no repentance is unbiblical.
November 26, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Periodic reminder:
The biblical standard for forgiveness is confession and repentance. Even God works on this standard.
Asking victims to forgive when there is no repentance is unbiblical.
The biblical standard for forgiveness is confession and repentance. Even God works on this standard.
Asking victims to forgive when there is no repentance is unbiblical.
I fully support tariffs on illicit drugs.
November 26, 2024 at 2:25 AM
I fully support tariffs on illicit drugs.
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Today in "linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your capacity for language involves being able to understand sentences that have never been said before"
Good morning. There's a deer wearing a high-vis jacket in McBride. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 26, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Today in "linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your capacity for language involves being able to understand sentences that have never been said before"
Non-negotiables I have for a pastor that make it really hard to find a church in the Bible Belt:
1) Humility (the real kind, not the faux kind)
2) Gospel preaching (not just as an add-on or altar call)
3) No Christian Nationalism (including any kind of Americana or civil religion in the pulpit)
1) Humility (the real kind, not the faux kind)
2) Gospel preaching (not just as an add-on or altar call)
3) No Christian Nationalism (including any kind of Americana or civil religion in the pulpit)
November 26, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Non-negotiables I have for a pastor that make it really hard to find a church in the Bible Belt:
1) Humility (the real kind, not the faux kind)
2) Gospel preaching (not just as an add-on or altar call)
3) No Christian Nationalism (including any kind of Americana or civil religion in the pulpit)
1) Humility (the real kind, not the faux kind)
2) Gospel preaching (not just as an add-on or altar call)
3) No Christian Nationalism (including any kind of Americana or civil religion in the pulpit)