The test of Christianity isn’t only loving Jesus. It’s also loving Judas.
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3 useful habits to develop:
(1) Regularly look back at your work from 6 months ago. If it makes you cringe, you’re doing something right.
(2) Make one new friend and catch up with one old friend every week.
(3) Lean into everything that makes you feel stupid or embarrassed.
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Dear Reader,
I present to you, the future.
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Today, when introducing WWI, a student raised her hand and brought up the death of a certain archduke. Nobody knew his name, so as a hint, I offered that he shares his name with a band.
Gentle reader, my students asked if there had perhaps been an Archduke Metallica.
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Well it depends... are you white? Male? Rich? Well connected?
If you answered no to all of them, make sure you stop completely at all stop signs. And don't even think about smoking weed.
And if you answered yes to all, the world is your oyster. Have at it man.
6 things kids know by heart that adults forgot 🤸🏽👇🏽
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I know folks are dunking on some aspects of the recent Rob Bell interview but whew, that last paragraph, asking if he is a Christian, is really beautiful:
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This obituary may contain the single greatest opening sentence in any piece of writing I have ever read, and I don’t think that’s (much of) an exaggeration.
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What if I’m leading worship on Sunday and decide to change the set list last minute. #RedTaylorsVersion
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"Our praxis-based life should not take us away from those we most deeply belong to." Stephan de Beer #leadershipinurbantransformation
#concretisingtheology
Single sex hostels are a living reminder of how we commodified the labour and bodies of people. Vaughan Stannard
#leadershipinurbantransformation
#congretisedtheology
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Invulnerability is built on the back of vulnerability. The more invulnerable some communities become, the more vulnerable other communities are made. vaughn stannard. #leadershipinurbantransformation #reflection #learning
Our city is the materialization & materiality of our theology. #leadershipinurbantransformation #reflection #learning
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Has anyone tried turning evangelicalism off and on again?
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My teenage daughter posted on Instagram that her mom would talk to any of her friends that can’t talk to their own moms and I just finished a 45-minute text conversation with one of them. What a holy privilege.
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Pray with me, if you like.
God,
You deal with it. I can't. I'm going to eat something.
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My hardware is male, 1944 model, minimal pigment. My software is that was I raised in small town Pawhuska, Oklahoma in the 1950's. My software has been updated numerous times. Recent software update reflected in attached image.
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Family Meeting on Sunday.
Whichever sibling stole the President's iPad, own up before mom comes to check which one of our belly-buttons have turned green!
#FamilyMeeting #unclecyril #missingipad
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The fact that we all know what he's saying without him saying it
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Post Match Interview : Stage 4 Loadshedding
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Lifelong learning is a competitive advantage.
But contrary to what you’ve been told, lifelong learners are built, not born.
THREAD: 20 lifelong learning habits you can start developing today.
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"How childish are you"
Me:
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I love the phrase “with all due respect” because it doesn’t specify the actual level of respect that is due
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when you click “our team” on a megachurch website
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Normalize asking white people if you are pronouncing their name correctly.
"Amy...am I pronouncing that correctly?"
#powerswitch #changethenarrative #politicsofnames
Our baptism is a once and for all reminder that we were accepted into a family despite who we are. The Lord’s Table is a continous reminder that we should then accept other people regardless of who they are. Two sacraments that counter d human tendency to draw the line & exclude.
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"Don’t just throw seeds at people. Grind it into flour. Bake it into bread. Slice it thinly and it wouldn't hurt if you put a little honey on it." (CH Spurgeon)
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Charges of arson dropped in the case against the homeless man arrested on the night of the fires. #homesnothandcuffs #servicesnotsirens #foodnotfines
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"The church does not seem to realize how unethical a conventionally respectable life may be." Reinhold Niebuhr, 1926
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R11,42 per hour for firefighters fighting the inferno? 😣 outsourcing must fall. The EPWP is a joke. Minimum wage is NOT a liveable wage
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Paid R11.42 an hour. Shame on all of us.
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WOF Firefighters on the ground at the Cape Town Fires which is ongoing.
@environmentza @PresidencyZA @eNCA @SABCNews @News24 @GoodHopeFM @CityofCT
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Want to know how you can support firefighters in addition to eyedrops and lip-ice? Get them a living wage. #capetownfires #fairpay #dangerpay
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Great question! A few ways... raise awareness, tell your friends how these fire fighters are treated, demand that @environmentza insources them as public sector employees with full benefits, support them on the picket lines next time they protest in front of @ParliamentofRSA
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Them: be like Jesus
Me: ok *drinks wine, calls people hypocrites, upsets men in power*
Them: not like that
Me: 🤷🏽♀️
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Just a reminder that the Bible literally says Jesus is the Word of God, not the Bible.
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For privilege to be dismantled, white people will have to become the principal agents in rejecting privilege as a right, tool and opportunity for advancement. They will have to request the long queue instead of the red carpet.
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This show looks like my friendship group so where’s the racism? #LoveIslandSA
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Lament is to ‘sit quietly on the ground with others and share their suffering’ - not just saying nothing. “Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.”
Job 2:13
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The future is here. Lady at coworking space having phone sex while sitting on the couch near my desk, during her lunch break. The number of cants has exceeded available quantity of evens.