Classical Liberal | UChicago & Oxford | Texan | Husband & Father | GWOT vet | Christian
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Bex retweeted
Really insightful point about how many people, particularly on the left, make political activism their identity. Instead of religious faith, they have politics.
Perhaps the reason so many people are holding on to political “activist” identities is that they are afraid to go back to just being them. Just a plain person. @ClubRandom_ @billmaher
Bex retweeted
These statistics should alarm the Church:
53% of American evangelicals say most people are basically good.
53% say the Holy Spirit is a force rather than a personal being.
47% say God accepts the worship of other religions.
This is why doctrine matters.
We don't need less theology in our churches. We desperately need better theology.
Bex retweeted
Josh Howerton tells fellow pastors to 'stand firm,' provide moral 'clarity' ahead of election
theblaze.com/news/josh-hower…
Bex retweeted
Joe Rogan Reacts to Bill Maher Leaves Jimmy Kimmel Speechless with This Reality Check 😬🔥🔥🔥
Powerful ...
“'I don’t feel You right now, but I’m here.' That sentence is not weak faith. That is faith in its purest form ...' See below.
How do you get closer to God when you feel absolutely nothing?
Most people assume closeness to God is supposed to feel like something. Warmth in your chest. Tears in worship. A sense that He’s right there in the room. So when you pray and the room stays quiet, when you open your Bible and the words just sit on the page, the conclusion comes fast: something is wrong with me, or He’s gone. Neither is true. But almost nobody tells you that, so people quietly drift away during the exact season God is doing some of His deepest work in them.
Look at who felt this before you. David wrote, “How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?” Psalm 13:1. That’s not a backslider talking. That’s a man God called a man after His own heart. Jesus Himself, on the cross, prayed the words of Psalm 22:1: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Feeling far from God is not proof that you are far from God. It is one of the most human experiences in the entire Bible.
And notice where God actually showed up for Elijah. Not in the wind that broke the rocks. Not in the earthquake. Not in the fire. After all of that came a low whisper, 1 Kings 19:11-12. Sometimes the reason we feel nothing is that we’re waiting for the earthquake, and God is speaking in the whisper.
So here’s the honest answer: you get closer to God the same way you get closer to anyone. You keep showing up when it isn’t exciting. “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you,” James 4:8. The promise isn’t that you’ll feel Him draw near. It’s that He will. Your feelings are weather. His faithfulness is the climate. “His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning,” Lamentations 3:22-23.
Try this tonight. Don’t perform. Don’t try to manufacture a feeling. Sit down, open to one psalm, read it slowly, and then tell God the truth: “I don’t feel You right now, but I’m here.” That sentence is not weak faith. That is faith in its purest form, trust with nothing propping it up.
You may feel nothing tonight. Come back tomorrow anyway. One day you’ll look back on this quiet stretch and realize He never left the room. He was teaching you to love Him for who He is, not for how He makes you feel.
Bex retweeted
Friedrich Nietzsche warned that those who cry out about how hard their life is, angling for sympathy, are not helpless at all.
They are seeking dominance by means other than strength.
Freedom is a dangerous thing, but not the most dangerous; any government, with a monopoly on power, is the most dangerous.
Judge rules NY’s ban on body armor is unconstitutional ✊
notthebee.com/article/judge-…
Bex retweeted
The holiness of God was his gift to Israel. God dwelt among his people and shared his holiness with them. But that holiness was to be approached only in the ways God himself prescribed.
God’s holiness was good, but it was also dangerous, even lethal.
Uzzah discovered this in an unforgettable way in 2 Samuel 6, which we read today in Bible in One Year.
David was transporting the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem. But from the beginning, things were not being done according to God’s Word. The ark was placed on a cart rather than being carried by the Levites with poles, as God had commanded.
Then the oxen stumbled. Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark, touched this most holy object, and died on the spot (2 Sam. 6:6–7).
This can seem shocking to us, but it underscores a fundamental truth about God. You don’t get to trifle with the holiness of God. You don’t get to approach the Holy One however you please. God himself determines how sinners may enter his holy presence.
Think of fire. Fire can warm your home, cook your food, and keep you alive on a freezing night. But walk into a house that is a blazing inferno and things will not end well for you. The problem is not that fire is evil. The problem is that you have encountered its power in a way that destroys rather than benefits you.
So it is with the holiness of God.
In Christ, God has given us the way to approach his holiness safely and salvifically. That way is not our goodness, sincerity, or self-devised religions or spirituality. That way is Jesus.
He is the Word who became flesh and “dwelt,” literally tabernacled, among us (John 1:14). In Baptism, we are united to him, grafted into his most holy body. His holiness does not consume us. It becomes ours. We are washed, sanctified, and made holy by the Spirit as a gift from the Father.
God is still “holy, holy, holy.” His holiness has not changed.
But in Christ, and only in Christ, that holiness is beneficial and salvific for us. Apart from Christ, sinners stand before a consuming, destroying fire. In Christ, the Holy One gives himself to us, joins us to himself, and makes us partakers of his own holiness.
Bex retweeted
Conviction and kindness aren’t opposites. God calls us to hold both, standing firm on the truth while sharing it with a gracious heart.
Where do you find it hardest to hold truth and grace together? Share with us below. 👇
Bex retweeted
Republicans in Texas simply not showing up…
Statewide early vote so far:
🔵Dem 35% (+2)
🔴Rep 33%
2022 at same point:
🔵Dem 29%
🔴Rep 42% (+13)
Society has lost its ability to feel shame, and it starts in institutions where it is somehow more noble to be a coward than to stand up to what is wrong and vile.
@CarnegieMellon can still do what is right, or it can fail to act -- fail its students, their parents, and their alumni -- and show itself to be more concerned with feeling good than doing good.
Imagine being a white student at @CarnegieMellon…
You’re already a minority on campus. You’re enjoying a bright fall day, and your phone suddenly starts blowing up with the story of a tenured professor who took to social media to wish death on a white man for simply being white.
But that’s not where the story ends…
After Uju Anya’s hateful, racist post went viral, she doubled down and dared the administration to take action against her, knowing full well it wouldn’t.
She was right. 45 days later and she’s back on X and still bragging that she’s untouchable.
Bex retweeted
Law professor Josh Blackman called the NYT out on politically labeling conservatives more often than liberals, and editor Patrick Healy acknowledged he was right:
“It can come off like The Times treats liberals as normal and conservatives as unique and worthy of labeling.”
We were assured that @CarnegieMellon was going to act quickly on this -- a racist professor spewing hate at others based purely on the color of their skin. Yet weeks later and here we are.
If only CMU placed as much value on protecting their students from this distemper of the mind and rot of the soul as they do cashing the checks of Ken Griffin and @Citadel. What should have been a celebration of leadership and vision has become overshadowed by cowardice and weakness.
If you refuse to act boldly for what is right, President Jahanian, why should anyone trust you won't meekly support that which is wrong? Silence is ascent, and in the pause of virtue we find the base thrive.
Do your job! Show the young people in your charge that truth demands action -- not just empty words and hollow gestures -- from those who lead, and that one must never bow or cower to falsehood and hate.
BREAKING: The racist Carnegie Mellon professor – @UjuAnya – is back on X.
She said "Die first, white man, then ask yourself why i'm dancing."
She blocked me.
Bex retweeted
The reason I am doing what I am doing now is because of *this* sermon.
It might be the most impactful 2 minutes of preaching I've ever seen — and it changed my entire life.
Bex retweeted
Wow. FIRE data shows male students are more tolerant of ideological enemies than female students are of ideological allies. Read that again and then click the link.
expression.fire.org/p/male-s…
Bex retweeted
Man Who Doesn't Read The Bible Also Chief Authority On What Jesus Would Do Today buff.ly/3Q3QR41
Bex retweeted
WILD: University of Michigan students PROVE just how STUPID and BRAINWASHED they truly are when they were asked to define what socialism is, while a Fox poll shows nearly half of young Americans still view it favorably.
“Socialism doesn't mean like anti-capitalism. Based off what I learned in my Gov class, it's basically like spending more money on helping society.”
“Socialism to me is a concept in politics where everybody gets a little bit of everything. Everybody benefits and everybody is really taking care of kind of that social net that you see in other types of politics.”
“I think a lot of people get the economic system of Socialism confused with the government system of Communism.”
We are SCREWED if we do not change how the younger generations views capitalism.
Bex retweeted
Socialists say capitalism hurt the poor.
But it doesn’t!
For thousands of years, everyone was poor. Only when countries tried capitalism, did wealth grow.
"A higher standard of living comes from trading with one another," says @SteveForbesCEO of @Forbes.
Here's why: