I cannot protest my garden and bees to health. I can nurture, tend, and prune, but stomping and yelling does nothing.
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Preston Pouteaux
@Prestonpouteaux
Pastor, beekeeper, neighbourhood enthusiast, author, Métis, RCMP chaplain, husband and father. plesion.studio
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Twitter evidences that we love making and sustaining our enmity, vs loving our enemies.
If you feel slighted, hurt, or betrayed this weekend by anyone, sit in that feeling. It may be your invitation into the Easter Story. Watch Jesus’ story unfold, even in you.
Good news here.
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"The truth of Holy Week (and AA) is this: We cannot save ourselves and we don’t have to. That work has already been done. Salvation is found only in whole-hearted surrender."
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Your life and character speak louder than your content. But your life can only be shared with precious few. Enjoy the beauty of these limits.
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Perhaps this is one reason why we’re invited to walk humbly and show mercy. This graph lives rent free in my mind.
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Stair dust corners.
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It is interesting :
Stair dust corners are flexible, triangle-shape pieces of brass or nickel that keep dust from accumulating in stair corners. They were introduced near the end of the 19th century as a way to simplify sweeping.
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"May we always run the risk of overemphasizing grace, for it is a risk that will never be realized."
—Robert Farrar Capon
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To be a good pastor you don’t need nuggets of wisdom at the ready, but you need to be kind, often gentle, patient, and you must actually love the real person before you. Do not lose this vital piece. Words emerge from this place of tender Jesus-shaped humanity.
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To be a good pastor you don’t have to master Adobe After Effects CC 16+. This is good news for someone out there.
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The healing we need in the world will not come through disseminating more information; it will come through interpersonal presence.
God did not send an updated version of the Ten Commandments. Instead, God came in a physical, vulnerable, wound-able body.
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Are you tired? Feel in need of rescue. Remember this today:
I have been rescued perfectly by Jesus
I am being rescued presently by Jesus
I will be rescued eternally by Jesus
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Need help planning your Lenten Journey? Here are the 4 Steps we recommend at Christ's Church Oceanside! #Lent #AshWednesday
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Jesus’s invitation to the table, to love enemies, and bless the ‘other’ challenges left and right enclaves. Fascinating to see how this is unfolding.
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“He Gets us” campaign.
Too far left and too far right
Which gets back to what I’ve always said on here about how believers engage culture and society
Tribalism sucks LOL!
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Leave off buying and selling, and start looking. Open your eyes. And you'll wake up in the New Jerusalem.
—G. K. Chesterton
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Some days I aspire to be the Preston-version of this guy. Whatever got him here, I want to know.
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I was invited to write about death and life in this year’s CT Lent & Easter devotional. Not everything that is desiccated is dead, this is good news.
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Announcing “New Life Rising,” CT’s 2023 Lent & Easter devotional.
Early-bird pricing now through Jan. 31: bit.ly/3kr0BgX
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My kids clean up Legos, these children clean up buildings. Praying for peace.
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Even children are helping to clear the rubble of a building in Dnipro damaged by a russian missile. As of this post, at least 12 people are dead.
#russiaisaterroriststate
#armukrainenow
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A brother in our small group the other night described joy as a slow burn of peace.
I’ve been thinking of that ever since.
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Come enjoy the Christmas Collection from Ekstasis! ekstasismagazine.com/blog/2022/chri 🌟
Featuring work by & more.
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Ours are some of the first generations that do not have a language or rhythm of prayer. Every era and people have had some sense of individual or corporate prayer practice, until quite recently. I wonder often at how that’s going for us?
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Pretty much a snapshot of church. People gathering around Jesus and struggling to figure it out. Much love to the whole scene!
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In a stunning turn of events, video footage has emerged of that first Christmas in which Mary is seen putting an ornery angel in a headlock while Joseph uselessly looks on.
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On the Feast when God became a child, let‘s think of the Ukrainian children suffering so much because of this war. Let‘s think of the Ukrainian people deprived of the basics to survive, and let us #PrayTogether to the Lord that He might bring them #peace as soon as possible.
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So easy to find advice dealers & cynical critics online. Much harder to be this person in a community. In real-life-next-door-neighbourhoods, gentle, joyful, non-anxious, unconditional-high-regard relationships is where life is at. That’s the good stuff.
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The faith of another is belittled when it is called residual. Faith is always lived by humans worthy of compassion and love. As Margaret Wheatley wrote, “You can’t hate someone whose story you know.” Here is the piece: ohrc.on.ca/en/iii-backgro
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I like to think of faith as a root that has nurtured much of our civil society. My street is home to Sikhs, Jews, Muslims, and Christians. We share food, stories, and celebrate with each other. At ground level these are not residues, but the joyfully lived faith of neighbours.
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The Ontario Human Rights Commission writes about ‘residual faithism’ in general and ‘residual Christianity’ in particular. Calling the faith of another a ‘residue’ is not helpful and I think works at cross purposes to their stated values.
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One of my favourites. Thank you
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I understand that the King asked for this poem by @malcolmguite to be read at the Royal Carol Service. It deserves to be read everywhere this Christmas.
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I understand that the King asked for this poem by to be read at the Royal Carol Service. It deserves to be read everywhere this Christmas.
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Perhaps the work of neighbourhoods, communities, and churches is to become places where we become friends again.
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THE DECLINE OF FRIENDSHIP
Here's @profgalloway on the decline/importance/development of friends.
profgalloway.com/friends/
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Jesus went to his home town, “and he was amazed at their unbelief.” I imagine Jesus leaning back, looking at his old school friends and neighbours and being “amazed.” Not angry, anxious, or bitter, but amazed. Jesus lets us share in his amazement, and his love.
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"Placemaking is kind of like gardening, you just have to keep doing it." - Chris Ganski
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Beauty will save the world
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"There is Ukraine, there will be Ukraine"
Concert at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine with blackout and without heating. Goosebumps.
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When the Church becomes an 'Industrial Complex' it turns spirituality into a product, church growth into a race, leadership into a business, and members into consumers.
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An important issue in many communities.
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The housing crisis in Canada continues to worsen. Churches and Christian organizations across the country are joining in to help find a solution and meet the needs for affordable housing across the country.
Read the full article
l.faithtoday.ca/3BiRZPw
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Why do we human beings learn so much, so soon, about technology, and so little, so late, about loving one another?
- Henri Nouwen, 1988
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Taking the long view—of being present in our neighbourhoods—can subvert our desire for immediacy while encouraging localized experimentation. Sometimes, it's good to be reminded that rich, meaningful things take time to grow.
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Only half of the pastor’s work is to gather the people together for worship. The other half is to send them back to their daily tasks equipped to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. If we forget this second part, the other can be positively dangerous.
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Civility is not a Fruit of the Spirit but kindness is. Never let evil kill your kindness.
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