Mark West
@markwestxvang.bsky.social
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Author What He Said: Living The Sermon, Transforming American Culture
ENFP
4w5 Enneagram
Author What He Said: Living The Sermon, Transforming American Culture
Reposted by Mark West
Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
April 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
This photo stains my soul. My tax dollars funded this. My Christian friends celebrate it as a victory.
God will not be mocked. Whatsoever a man reaps, so also shall he sow.
This is literally using God's name in vain.
God will not be mocked. Whatsoever a man reaps, so also shall he sow.
This is literally using God's name in vain.
April 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This photo stains my soul. My tax dollars funded this. My Christian friends celebrate it as a victory.
God will not be mocked. Whatsoever a man reaps, so also shall he sow.
This is literally using God's name in vain.
God will not be mocked. Whatsoever a man reaps, so also shall he sow.
This is literally using God's name in vain.
"He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried."
Let the weight of this statement from the Apostle's Creed settle in your heart and mind.
Who was this Pilate?
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Let the weight of this statement from the Apostle's Creed settle in your heart and mind.
Who was this Pilate?
1/5
April 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried."
Let the weight of this statement from the Apostle's Creed settle in your heart and mind.
Who was this Pilate?
1/5
Let the weight of this statement from the Apostle's Creed settle in your heart and mind.
Who was this Pilate?
1/5
They got money for war, but can't feed the poor."
April 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
They got money for war, but can't feed the poor."
I thought that free-market capitalism was the opposite of central government planning, market manipulation, and economic protectionism.
"We've got to hurt you to protect you" is peak abuser language, btw, for those who aren't familiar.
Learn something new every day, I guess.
"We've got to hurt you to protect you" is peak abuser language, btw, for those who aren't familiar.
Learn something new every day, I guess.
April 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I thought that free-market capitalism was the opposite of central government planning, market manipulation, and economic protectionism.
"We've got to hurt you to protect you" is peak abuser language, btw, for those who aren't familiar.
Learn something new every day, I guess.
"We've got to hurt you to protect you" is peak abuser language, btw, for those who aren't familiar.
Learn something new every day, I guess.
Do you believe in the Devil?
Matt Murdock (Daredevil) speaks to his priest, Father Lantom, about the Father's views on the Devil.
One of the best dialogues in the entire series and part of the reason I fell in love with the show.
Taken from www.imdb.com/title/tt4125...
Matt Murdock (Daredevil) speaks to his priest, Father Lantom, about the Father's views on the Devil.
One of the best dialogues in the entire series and part of the reason I fell in love with the show.
Taken from www.imdb.com/title/tt4125...
March 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Do you believe in the Devil?
Matt Murdock (Daredevil) speaks to his priest, Father Lantom, about the Father's views on the Devil.
One of the best dialogues in the entire series and part of the reason I fell in love with the show.
Taken from www.imdb.com/title/tt4125...
Matt Murdock (Daredevil) speaks to his priest, Father Lantom, about the Father's views on the Devil.
One of the best dialogues in the entire series and part of the reason I fell in love with the show.
Taken from www.imdb.com/title/tt4125...
Empathy is the dividing line between normalcy and psychopathy, humility and arrogance, humanity and monstrosity.
March 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Empathy is the dividing line between normalcy and psychopathy, humility and arrogance, humanity and monstrosity.
Cruelty, xenophobia, bigotry, racism, and unprovoked violence and destruction, are all signs of those who are weak, compensating to look strong and feel powerful.
But, that's just, like, my opinion, man.
But, that's just, like, my opinion, man.
March 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Cruelty, xenophobia, bigotry, racism, and unprovoked violence and destruction, are all signs of those who are weak, compensating to look strong and feel powerful.
But, that's just, like, my opinion, man.
But, that's just, like, my opinion, man.
"Our Father, may we accept Your message in spite of the messenger, whether they be a woman, a child, or a simple act of servitude like washing another's feet."
Prayer based on John 13:5; John 20:18; Matthew 21:15-16
Prayer based on John 13:5; John 20:18; Matthew 21:15-16
March 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Our Father, may we accept Your message in spite of the messenger, whether they be a woman, a child, or a simple act of servitude like washing another's feet."
Prayer based on John 13:5; John 20:18; Matthew 21:15-16
Prayer based on John 13:5; John 20:18; Matthew 21:15-16
God's glory IS mercy, not judgment, not retribution, but MERCY. 🧵
The same should be for us.
"Christ's death on the cross is the judgment of judgment." -Maximus the Confessor (580-662)
Moses asked to see God's glory.
God replied that Moses would hear the name of God. ...
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The same should be for us.
"Christ's death on the cross is the judgment of judgment." -Maximus the Confessor (580-662)
Moses asked to see God's glory.
God replied that Moses would hear the name of God. ...
1/6
March 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
God's glory IS mercy, not judgment, not retribution, but MERCY. 🧵
The same should be for us.
"Christ's death on the cross is the judgment of judgment." -Maximus the Confessor (580-662)
Moses asked to see God's glory.
God replied that Moses would hear the name of God. ...
1/6
The same should be for us.
"Christ's death on the cross is the judgment of judgment." -Maximus the Confessor (580-662)
Moses asked to see God's glory.
God replied that Moses would hear the name of God. ...
1/6
Reposted by Mark West
Reposted by Mark West
Reposted by Mark West
Christians should be leading the way to an empathetic counterculture, yet too often, Christians are following the powerful in the opposite.
February 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Christians should be leading the way to an empathetic counterculture, yet too often, Christians are following the powerful in the opposite.
Reposted by Mark West
Reposted by Mark West
In this generation, it is not the appalling silence of the good people, but the outright collaboration of the "good" people in those hateful words and actions!
January 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In this generation, it is not the appalling silence of the good people, but the outright collaboration of the "good" people in those hateful words and actions!
You might be a political Evangelical if:
-you're ok with your tax dollars being spent to ensure that immigrants are persecuted and have no place in your neighborhood, city, state, or country.
AND
...
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-you're ok with your tax dollars being spent to ensure that immigrants are persecuted and have no place in your neighborhood, city, state, or country.
AND
...
1/2
January 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
You might be a political Evangelical if:
-you're ok with your tax dollars being spent to ensure that immigrants are persecuted and have no place in your neighborhood, city, state, or country.
AND
...
1/2
-you're ok with your tax dollars being spent to ensure that immigrants are persecuted and have no place in your neighborhood, city, state, or country.
AND
...
1/2
Reposted by Mark West
Reposted by Mark West
So, the MAGAincels who went from being experts on infectious diseases to experts on vaccines, military withdrawals, presidential immunity, firearm forms, voting rights, libel law and interoceanic waterways are now experts on wildfire management?
Do I have that just about right?
Do I have that just about right?
January 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
So, the MAGAincels who went from being experts on infectious diseases to experts on vaccines, military withdrawals, presidential immunity, firearm forms, voting rights, libel law and interoceanic waterways are now experts on wildfire management?
Do I have that just about right?
Do I have that just about right?
Fitting!
They need to start playing The Imperial March every time Trump enters a room.
January 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Fitting!
Reposted by Mark West
My essay on what the death of Jimmy Carter reveals about American Christianity:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/jimm...
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/jimm...
Jimmy Carter at the Judgment Seat - Christianity Today
From Russell Moore: The former president’s death at 100 has a lesson for the American church.
www.christianitytoday.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
My essay on what the death of Jimmy Carter reveals about American Christianity:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/jimm...
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/jimm...
I agree. Basically, Elon, Trump, Trump, Jr. are all-in on "blame the Black people!"
And their base LOVES it!
Those of you who supported this, supported racism and bigotry for cheaper groceries!
We will not forget!
And their base LOVES it!
Those of you who supported this, supported racism and bigotry for cheaper groceries!
We will not forget!
i’m kind of amazed at how this is just the crudest, most obvious n****rbaiting you can imagine. “the people you don’t like, yeah, they are responsible for everything bad.” and it works!
January 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I agree. Basically, Elon, Trump, Trump, Jr. are all-in on "blame the Black people!"
And their base LOVES it!
Those of you who supported this, supported racism and bigotry for cheaper groceries!
We will not forget!
And their base LOVES it!
Those of you who supported this, supported racism and bigotry for cheaper groceries!
We will not forget!
Jesus said, "Go to hell!"
Well, not so much in those words, but definitely in the language of His time.
The line from Scripture:
"But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to ...
1/3
Well, not so much in those words, but definitely in the language of His time.
The line from Scripture:
"But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to ...
1/3
January 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Jesus said, "Go to hell!"
Well, not so much in those words, but definitely in the language of His time.
The line from Scripture:
"But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to ...
1/3
Well, not so much in those words, but definitely in the language of His time.
The line from Scripture:
"But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to ...
1/3
Reposted by Mark West
New(Left) vs Old(Right) Caliber is one of my older characters that I am on a mission to give the full design treatment. Before I do so, I need to update his visual language and design a bit. I am attempting to streamline his design more to fit the rest of the cast. #oc #gamedev #characterconcept
January 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New(Left) vs Old(Right) Caliber is one of my older characters that I am on a mission to give the full design treatment. Before I do so, I need to update his visual language and design a bit. I am attempting to streamline his design more to fit the rest of the cast. #oc #gamedev #characterconcept