Brandon Jones
@bcjoneskc.bsky.social
Kansas City guy serving as a missionary in Porto Alegre Brazil.
NABinBrazil.org
NABinBrazil.org
Any excuse to share my favorite meme of all time...
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Any excuse to share my favorite meme of all time...
Here in southern Brazil they do exactly that. It's pretty good!
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Here in southern Brazil they do exactly that. It's pretty good!
"I never say it can't get worse" - Buddy Bell, after the Royals lost ten in a row (they lost the next game too)
September 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"I never say it can't get worse" - Buddy Bell, after the Royals lost ten in a row (they lost the next game too)
This reminds me of the Real World with Bob Dole
August 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This reminds me of the Real World with Bob Dole
I was not ready for this at all from the movie, Edge of Seventeen.
My Dad's death some 13 years ago, even though not nearly as abrupt as in the movie, still feels like an accelerated event that just happened.
My Dad's death some 13 years ago, even though not nearly as abrupt as in the movie, still feels like an accelerated event that just happened.
June 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I was not ready for this at all from the movie, Edge of Seventeen.
My Dad's death some 13 years ago, even though not nearly as abrupt as in the movie, still feels like an accelerated event that just happened.
My Dad's death some 13 years ago, even though not nearly as abrupt as in the movie, still feels like an accelerated event that just happened.
One of many tensions in the Bible is God's people and their king. But Samuel reminds them that there is a cost to being like all the other nations.
The people thought the king would give: he would protect and fight their battles for them.
Perhaps, but there is also much that a king will take.
The people thought the king would give: he would protect and fight their battles for them.
Perhaps, but there is also much that a king will take.
June 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
One of many tensions in the Bible is God's people and their king. But Samuel reminds them that there is a cost to being like all the other nations.
The people thought the king would give: he would protect and fight their battles for them.
Perhaps, but there is also much that a king will take.
The people thought the king would give: he would protect and fight their battles for them.
Perhaps, but there is also much that a king will take.
Among those reasons:
Dex
People address Padmé as "M'lady" all the sudden and throughout the movie after it not being used once in Ep. 1
Sand really sucks, am I right?
Dex
People address Padmé as "M'lady" all the sudden and throughout the movie after it not being used once in Ep. 1
Sand really sucks, am I right?
May 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Among those reasons:
Dex
People address Padmé as "M'lady" all the sudden and throughout the movie after it not being used once in Ep. 1
Sand really sucks, am I right?
Dex
People address Padmé as "M'lady" all the sudden and throughout the movie after it not being used once in Ep. 1
Sand really sucks, am I right?
Even better, get a mural of it!
May 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Even better, get a mural of it!
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes about faith.
April 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes about faith.
Lately I've been reading City of God and this quote stood out to me.
April 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Lately I've been reading City of God and this quote stood out to me.
My ninth grader has a project to make her family tree, which includes a photo collage of her ancestors. These two guys snuck in as the "ancestors" of our two cats.
April 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My ninth grader has a project to make her family tree, which includes a photo collage of her ancestors. These two guys snuck in as the "ancestors" of our two cats.
My son has learned dating don'ts from me
March 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My son has learned dating don'ts from me
Prayer in the Night by Tish Harrison Warren:
I found here perhaps by accident one of the best apologetic books I've ever read, and it's stuck with me. There are no tidy, intellectual answers here, just someone with faith seeking understanding while in pain. Someone like all of us.
I found here perhaps by accident one of the best apologetic books I've ever read, and it's stuck with me. There are no tidy, intellectual answers here, just someone with faith seeking understanding while in pain. Someone like all of us.
November 29, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Prayer in the Night by Tish Harrison Warren:
I found here perhaps by accident one of the best apologetic books I've ever read, and it's stuck with me. There are no tidy, intellectual answers here, just someone with faith seeking understanding while in pain. Someone like all of us.
I found here perhaps by accident one of the best apologetic books I've ever read, and it's stuck with me. There are no tidy, intellectual answers here, just someone with faith seeking understanding while in pain. Someone like all of us.
The Stories of English by David Crystal
This book traces the origins of our own language, like how there was a time when French was the legal language, so laws would use English and French to cover all their bases, so even today we have phrases like "breaking and entering," which is one thing.
This book traces the origins of our own language, like how there was a time when French was the legal language, so laws would use English and French to cover all their bases, so even today we have phrases like "breaking and entering," which is one thing.
November 29, 2024 at 2:33 PM
The Stories of English by David Crystal
This book traces the origins of our own language, like how there was a time when French was the legal language, so laws would use English and French to cover all their bases, so even today we have phrases like "breaking and entering," which is one thing.
This book traces the origins of our own language, like how there was a time when French was the legal language, so laws would use English and French to cover all their bases, so even today we have phrases like "breaking and entering," which is one thing.
The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism by Daniel Hummel
This book was enlightening to peel back beyond the founding of Dallas Theological Seminary and into dispensationalism of the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the story also continues through movements like Hal Lindsey, Left Behind, and more.
This book was enlightening to peel back beyond the founding of Dallas Theological Seminary and into dispensationalism of the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the story also continues through movements like Hal Lindsey, Left Behind, and more.
November 29, 2024 at 2:32 PM
The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism by Daniel Hummel
This book was enlightening to peel back beyond the founding of Dallas Theological Seminary and into dispensationalism of the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the story also continues through movements like Hal Lindsey, Left Behind, and more.
This book was enlightening to peel back beyond the founding of Dallas Theological Seminary and into dispensationalism of the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the story also continues through movements like Hal Lindsey, Left Behind, and more.
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
Klein reflects on her story as well as so many others who grew up with her. The interviews are raw, insightful, and delve into topics that often go unspoken.
Klein reflects on her story as well as so many others who grew up with her. The interviews are raw, insightful, and delve into topics that often go unspoken.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
Klein reflects on her story as well as so many others who grew up with her. The interviews are raw, insightful, and delve into topics that often go unspoken.
Klein reflects on her story as well as so many others who grew up with her. The interviews are raw, insightful, and delve into topics that often go unspoken.
Excusing Sinners and Blaming God by Guillaume Bignon
If one sees some mysterious alignment of determinism and human responsibility in Scripture (as I do see), then is that necessarily a bad thing if it were true? Bignon argues that it isn't such a bad thing after all.
If one sees some mysterious alignment of determinism and human responsibility in Scripture (as I do see), then is that necessarily a bad thing if it were true? Bignon argues that it isn't such a bad thing after all.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Excusing Sinners and Blaming God by Guillaume Bignon
If one sees some mysterious alignment of determinism and human responsibility in Scripture (as I do see), then is that necessarily a bad thing if it were true? Bignon argues that it isn't such a bad thing after all.
If one sees some mysterious alignment of determinism and human responsibility in Scripture (as I do see), then is that necessarily a bad thing if it were true? Bignon argues that it isn't such a bad thing after all.
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
Chung's two books have stuck with me a lot as I've thought about my own identity as an adoptee. As she would say it's complex, and few people care to recognize how complex it really is. Her first book approaches her birth family and this one her adoptive one.
Chung's two books have stuck with me a lot as I've thought about my own identity as an adoptee. As she would say it's complex, and few people care to recognize how complex it really is. Her first book approaches her birth family and this one her adoptive one.
November 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
Chung's two books have stuck with me a lot as I've thought about my own identity as an adoptee. As she would say it's complex, and few people care to recognize how complex it really is. Her first book approaches her birth family and this one her adoptive one.
Chung's two books have stuck with me a lot as I've thought about my own identity as an adoptee. As she would say it's complex, and few people care to recognize how complex it really is. Her first book approaches her birth family and this one her adoptive one.
The stickiest part of this book is how Smith focuses on a passage in Joel: "I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten." God promises us to use our past and heal it, while we might also bear its scars. It's a beautiful gift of hope and redemption!
November 29, 2024 at 2:29 PM
The stickiest part of this book is how Smith focuses on a passage in Joel: "I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten." God promises us to use our past and heal it, while we might also bear its scars. It's a beautiful gift of hope and redemption!